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ASF GitHub Bot commented on AVRO-2043: -------------------------------------- GitHub user gszadovszky opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/232 AVRO-2043: Move to java8 You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/gszadovszky/avro AVRO-2043 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/232.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #232 ---- commit 475b83ab9e16de0d462b716e6eefbe4d20eda321 Author: Gabor Szadovszky <ga...@apache.org> Date: 2017-06-16T09:01:09Z AVRO-2043: Move to java8 ---- > Move to java8 > ------------- > > Key: AVRO-2043 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2043 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.9.0 > Reporter: Gabor Szadovszky > Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky > > java6 is really old and java7 is already EOD for 2yrs. It is time to move to > java8 in the next major release (1.9.0): > * update source/target to 1.8.0 in the pom.xml > * update the Dockerfile to used jdk8 > * ensure that lang/java builds fine with jdk8 > * ensure that all unit tests pass in lang/java with jdk8 > * ensure that everything builds fine and tests pass by using the new docker > image -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)