Hi all, I'd like to drop the support for Java 6 and 7 in our SystemML 1.0 release. Our build still refers to a java compliance level 6, which has not been changed for more than 5 years now. Spark >= 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 and there has been some discussion on removing Java 7 as well because it reached end of life in April 2015. Moving to Java 8 would allow us to modernize the code base going forward and the 1.0 release would be the perfect time for this change.
Regards, Matthias
