On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 7:20 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > InfoQ had an article from Sept 2020 indicating Java 11 was about 20% of > production deployments and Java 8 had the rest. So release 2.x is going to > be around a while.
I'm fine with that. We have users that are cranking along on Java 8 set ups, that's not going to change for a while I guess ... until the next panic over licensing, EOL, or somesuch. Gary > > Ralph > > > On Mar 13, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > > > The JRebel report from January shows that about 69% of Java users are using > > Java 8. Java 11 is at about 36%. The only problem here is that Java 12 or > > newer is 12% and Java 7 or older is 15% That totals 132% so I really have > > no idea what to make of these numbers. > > > > Ralph > > > >> On Mar 13, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> That's fine with me. > >> > >> FWIW: At work, what is holding us back moving from Java 8 to 11 is > >> that IBM does not support a production level Java 11 on the i/Series > >> yet (EA only IIRC). > >> > >> Gary > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 5:28 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Log4j 2.3 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 6. We have made no > >>> patches to it since it was released in 2015. As I recall Java 6 was > >>> already EOL on public updates by the time we moved to Java 7. As near as > >>> I can tell Oracle’s extended support for Java 6 ended in December 2018. > >>> Maven Central indicates about 1.7% of all log4j-api downloads are for > >>> release 2.3 and prior, including the alpha and beta releases. > >>> > >>> Log4j 2.12.1 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 7. Java 7 > >>> public updates ended in April 2015, premier support ended in Mar 2019, > >>> and extended support ends in July 2022. Maven Central statistics show > >>> that Log4j 2 1.12.1 is our 3rd most popular version of log4j-api and > >>> about 12% of downloads. Of course, if is far more likely that users of > >>> Log4j 2.12.1 are running Java 8 than Java 7 since the latest JRebel > >>> report indicates that only 7% of Java users are using Java 7 or older. > >>> > >>> > >>> I suspect that if I tried to do a patch release to 2.3 today it would be > >>> difficult. I still have Java 6 present on my computer, but that computer > >>> has probably been upgraded twice since 2.3 was released. > >>> > >>> I am proposing that we publish that we no longer support Java 6 or Java > >>> 7. If we want to continue to support Java 7 we should at least indicate > >>> when we will drop support. > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >>> > >>> Ralph > >> > > > > > > > >
