Ismael Juma created KAFKA-4423:
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Summary: Drop support for Java 7
Key: KAFKA-4423
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4423
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Ismael Juma
Assignee: Ismael Juma
Java 7 was released in July 2011, it hasn't received public updates since April
2015, Java 8 was released in March 2014 and Java 9 is scheduled to be released
in July 2017.
The last public release of JDK 7 by Oracle contains a large number of known
security vulnerabilities and Java 8 introduces a number of
compelling features and we will soon have to support Java 9 so it would be good
to drop support for Java 7 in 2017. The actual timing would depend on when we
release the next major release of Kafka.
More details on pros and cons are captured in the following discussion thread
in the mailing list:
http://search-hadoop.com/m/Kafka/uyzND1oIhV61GS5Sf2
Before we can do this, we need to discuss and vote on a concrete proposal in
the mailing list.
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