On 5/1/19 5:06 pm, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
Hi !
just wanted to be sure we all agree on the Java version we require for
the various projects. Currently, we require Java 7, even if it's EOL
since April 2015 (which means there is no official update for any
security issue, unless you pay for it)
Java 7 is still available through OpenJDK, and there are a few places
where you can get an updated version, but not for all the platforms:
Java 7 is typically not available in a recent and updated version on Mac
OSX.
So I suggest we drop Java 7 as the base version for our project, and
switch to Java 8 (which is also EOLed, ftr).
[ ] +1 : Only support Java 8 from now on
[ ] +/- 0 : I don't mind
[ ] -1 : Keep support for Java 7
Thanks !
+1 for purely selfish reasons, although mine will probably be fairly
typical. My main server that runs apacheds is still on ubuntu 16.04 LTS
and so will require upgrading to 18.04 LTS fairly soon. All the java
services on this system currently use the "stock" ubuntu repository
java8 package, i.e.
openjdk version "1.8.0_191"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.1-b12)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)
HTH,
Brian
p.s. all my new development projects are done (as far as possible) under
openjdk 11. I don't have any outstanding compatibility problems that
require downgrading, but I have a lot of work to do before I can be sure...
