Is there an End of Life EOL for Nextflow and java16 ? Error: Could not find or load main class nextflow.cli.Launcher

[colindaven]

Hi,

I have been happily using nextflow in about 20 pipelines. On the weekend and today, I started seeing nextflow.cli.Launcher errors as below.

The nextflow I am using is the one downloaded by this script, 23.04.2:

# Download nextflow jar directly - no conda needed
wget -q -c -nc https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/download/v23.04.2/nextflow-23.04.2-all
mv nextflow-23.04.2-all nextflow
chmod a+x nextflow*

Then in my run.sh I reference java like this

# Setup java env
unset JAVA_HOME
unset _JAVA_OPTIONS
unset JAVA_OPTIONS
export JAVA_HOME=/mnt/software/java/jdk/jdk-16/

Actual error:

nextflow

Error: Could not find or load main class nextflow.cli.Launcher
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: nextflow.cli.Launcher

echo $JAVA_HOME

/mnt/software/java/jdk/jdk-16/

The current version of Nextflow does not seem to be affected, so is there an EOL for Java 16 with nf 23.04.2 ?

Thanks