> > > Java 7 is EOL since April 2015 ( > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html) > Oracle jdk 7 is eol. There is still openjdk. I don't think that has > reached eol yet. >
EOL means "no more public updates, including security ones". Is there a vast number of users who absolutely cannot install Java 8? Do they know their Java 7 installations might have critical security issues? What are the true reasons to support Java 7? Note: if JMeter was a library that is used by some well-known application that is stuck with Java 7, then it would make sense to support Java 7. JMeter is a standalone application, thus I see very little reasons to stick with Java 7 since April 2015 was more than a year ago. I think we should wait a bit longer before dropping java 7 support, or > maybe take milamber's approach of supporting two branches. Java 6 support was dropped after Java 6 was 2 years into EOL. On April 2017 it would be 2 years since Java 7 EOL. Even if we start java 8 migration right away, we would not release earlier than April 2017. I wish I were wrong here, but my experience shows that JMeter does not release often. Vladimir
