It only means that we are dropping support for newer ACS versions. It most likely won't get into 4.9, which means 14.04 will be supported a few more weeks/months.
We could mention in the 4.9 RN that for the next release (call it 5.0 because of the change?) will only be supported by $xyz distribution versjons -- Erik On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > I am in favor of Java 8, but it means we would drop Ubuntu 14.04 support. > > That would make life a bit easier though, since Ubuntu 16.04 has systemd > and 14.04 still has sysvinit and that make packaging a problem. > > > Op 13 mei 2016 om 19:10 schreef Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>: > > > > > > All, > > > > > > I've started some work [pr] that aims to adapt CloudStack to recent > changes in the environments and the ecosystem: > > > > > > - Java8, Spring 4.x > > > > - SystemD > > > > - MariaDB and MySQL > > > > - Reduce distro provided package dependency > > > > - Packaging, CI and testing > > > > > > These are long term goals but I've identified some concrete goals: > > > > > > - Migrate to Java8 both for building codebase and running CloudStack > (mgmt server, usage, agent etc) > > > > - Migrate to Spring 4.x as 3.x is not supported to work with Java7 > > > > - Fix CI and packaging to use Java8 > > > > - Reduce distro specific package dependency such as Tomcat, since we're > already using Jetty (maven-jetty-plugin) during development we can use > embedded Jetty for mgmt server(s) as well > > > > - Update systemvm template to include Java8 JRE > > > > - Update packaging to support systemd (CentOS7+ has some systemd support > and thanks to Wido's recent PR we would have systemd support for debian > packages in future too) > > > > - Optimize JVM options for long running mgmt server(s), agent(s) and > usage server(s) to run on JRE8 > > > > > > I've sent a [pr] to show some initial progress in this regard where > we've some outstanding issues but we're able to build/run/test with Java8 + > Spring 4.x and TravisCI has been fixed to use JDK8 as well. > > > > > > Testing in general would be a huge requirement for this initiative, > especially testing of all the plugins. Java7 has EOL-ed and Java9 is around > the corner; we've seen good amount of security and memory issues with > Java7/6 and Tomcat6.x; therefore it seems necessary to work on above as we > move towards a LTS release in upcoming months. > > > > > > Request for comments, suggestions and guidance. Thanks. > > > > > > [pr] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1546 > > > > > > Regards. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > > www.shapeblue.com > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > > @shapeblue >
