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Jan Høydahl commented on LUCENE-6722:
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+1 to Uwe's comments
Let 5.x stay Java7. No end user benefit in requiring Java8!
As it stands now there are only 12 -- twelve -- changes that are Trunk-only,
and none of those are major features (many are deprecations). Probably because
devs (or their boss?) prioritize getting every single commit backported to 5.x
right away. Perhaps our software would be more healthy if we allow more changes
to go in Trunk only; then the benefits to releasing the next major version
would be obvious, and we would not need to go searching for justifications of
releasing a major version in lack of real end-user benefits :-) Java8 only is
not enough reason for users to upgrade since 5.x runs well in Java8.
One candidate could have been the whole Auth/Autz support for Solr, but that is
too late now :)
So let's cut the 6.0.0 release once someone can argue there is enough major new
stuff in Trunk-only that brings real end user benefit (for either Lucene or
Solr users).
> Java 8 as the minimum supported JVM version for branch_5x
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> Key: LUCENE-6722
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6722
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 5.4
>
>
> Require Java 8 as the minimum supported JVM version for branch_5x.
> # Java 7 is already EOL'ed
> # Trunk is already at Java8
> # Important Solr components such as Jetty 9.3.x already require Java 8
> # Nashorn Javascript engine available in Java 8 is just so much faster and we
> may see more usage of JS inside Solr (SOLR-7576 etc.)
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