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Denes Arvay commented on FLUME-2945: ------------------------------------ Thanks for the patch [~liorze], thank you for the review [~sati] > 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: 1.8.0 > Reporter: Lior Zeno > Assignee: Lior Zeno > Fix For: 1.8.0 > > Attachments: FLUME-2945-0.patch > > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)