BEAST 2.7.6 not launching on Mac

[kbhoehn]

Hello,

Thanks for developing this great software. I've been having a lot of trouble getting BEAST to work on my Mac (Ventura 13.5, M2 chip). When I try to run BEAST, I get this error:

/Applications/BEAST\ 2.7.6/bin/beast
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: beast/base/core/BEASTVersion2 has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 65.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 61.0
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at beast.pkgmgmt.MultiParentURLClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at beast.pkgmgmt.MultiParentURLClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getMethodsRecursive(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
at beast.pkgmgmt.launcher.BeastLauncher.run(Unknown Source)
at beast.pkgmgmt.launcher.BeastLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

I've tried setting JAVA_HOME to the version of JRE 17 that's distributed with the package, as well as uninstalling every other version of Java on my computer, but I get the same error. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
-Ken