Good call, pretty reasonable. I agree with stopping the support for Java 6 and 7.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:28 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 >
