[Bug]: Left frame no longer showing in Javadoc

[mouyang]

What happened?

In the Javadoc, the left frame is no longer appearing on the left side of the screen. It's making Javadoc very difficult to use.

Frame in 2.66.0 https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/2.66.0/
No frame in 2.67.0 https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/2.67.0/

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[Abacn]

Thanks for reporting. It's due to #35551 changed Javadoc generation from using Java11 to Java21, which eliminated side frame due to https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8215599.

This functionality was added back in Java25 though: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8320458 so we'd need to bump javadoc generation to use Java25 if we want to bring it back.

[mouyang]

I didn't do my research ahead of time on the "why" but I understand it now. If it is decided to proceed, obviously don't do it in an insecure manner. Thank you for the response.