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Bug 269628

Summary:	Old projects which have source/binary format below 1.6 cannot be opened in NetBeans 8.2
Product:	java	Reporter:	Leos.Bitto
Component:	Project	Assignee:	Tomas Zezula <tzezula>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Leos.Bitto 2017-01-22 12:09:21 UTC

I had to open an old NetBeans project which needs source/binary format 1.4 and this failed in NetBeans 8.2 which forced me to downgrade to 8.1 where this still works fine. The suggested action in 8.2 under "Resolve Project Problems" is "Upgrade the project source/binary format to the minimal supported one (1.6)" which is not acceptable for me becaue it is a library which is used in an ancient JVM. I think that NetBeans 8.2 should support better backward compatibility in this case.