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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-6722:
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If we push on 6, plenty more things will fall into it if history is any guide.
I don't think users need to be like, wow, another major version, so many
features! Our project has historically been this way anyway - we have had like
1.5 real major releases that are game changers. That's okay. The rest have been
done for other reasons.
If devs want to start working with features that require Java 8 and get those
in the hands of users, I think thats good enough reason to do 6 for devs and
users.
If people are banging on our door for another 5.x release after 6 is out,
nothing stops us.
> 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
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> 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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