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Denes Arvay commented on FLUME-2945:
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Hi [~liorze], I think this patch is ready to go. I'm going to do a final review
and if nobody has any concerns I'll commit it.
> Bump java target version to 1.8
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> Key: FLUME-2945
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2945
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Reporter: Lior Zeno
> Assignee: Lior Zeno
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> Attachments: FLUME-2945-0.patch
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> 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
> The attached patch was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with openjdk version "1.8.0_91".
> All unit tests, except for the known flaky ones, successfully passed.
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