> We did consider (and regret) potentially leaving android behind, but we were (perhaps naively) hoping that something like retrolambda would suffice, or that android would catch up. In any case, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have 2.12 still support Java 6, since most of its features require Java 8 (those that don't, we first implemented in 2.11.x).

Presumably 2.11 won't be supported going forward? Or as someone who would like my libraries to work on android and doesn't particularly care about them being callable from Java 8, should I just stay on 2.11 indefinitely?