Gradle, “sourceCompatibility” vs “targetCompatibility”?

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targetCompatibility and sourceCompatibility maps to -target release and -source release in javac. Source is basically the source language level and target is the level of the bytecode that is generated.

More details can be found in the Cross-Compilation Options for javac section of Tools Reference for Java 8, for Java 11, for Java 17, or for Java 19.

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