Lior Zeno created FLUME-2945:
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Summary: Bump java target version to 1.8
Key: FLUME-2945
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2945
Project: Flume
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: v1.8.0
Reporter: Lior Zeno
Fix For: v1.8.0
We should move to Java 8 as a minimum requirement.
# Java 7 is EOL'ed http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.
# Many projects are adopting java 8 as a minimum requirement, for instance:
* Solr 6: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6722
* Hbase 2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15624
* elasticsearch 5:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/setup.html
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