Java 6 was released in December 2006, making it 13½ years old. That's over 94 in computer years! (Laugh if you want but computer technology goes out of date so quickly that I find treating it like dogs in this regard to be a useful metric.) Oracle stopped supporting it in 2017, meaning that since then the platform has not been receiving critical security updates.
I say it’s fine to drop support for it, and to make Java 8 (which is still getting critical security updates) the minimum supported version. On 5/20/20 3:47, henrib wrote: > Quick poll before attempting to release JEXL 3.1; > Should we still release with support for Java 6 or should we move ahead with > at least Java 8 ? > Seems to me Java 6 is old enough to be dropped. > One could still build from source with java 6 if needed. > What do you think ? > Cheers > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/Commons-Dev-f680415.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- David Barts / [email protected] He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. -- Moroccan proverb
