Releases are built with Java 8 until sometime in the future when we move to Java 11 as the minimum (likely NiFi 2.0.0).
On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:58 AM Russell Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looking at the release notes, I see: > > * Apache NiFi can now be built on either Java 8 or Java 11! When built > on Java 8 it can run on Java 8 or Java 11. > > The implications of this statement make me ask: > > * At https://nifi.apache.org/download.html, how is it built? JDK 11? > * Can I run it using JRE 8? Or, must I download source and build it > using JDK 8 myself? > > I apologize; I could try it myself, but I don't have a platform running > JRE 8 easy to hand, so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows. Likely, > anything I do will ultimately need to run on (CentOS) JRE 8, so I'm not > asking idly. > > Thanks, > > Russ > >
