+1 for discontinuing support for jdk1.6

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Norbert Kalmar <
nkal...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> In my opinion terminating support for java 1.6 is a good idea. Even it's
> extended support will end this year (
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html).
> And the projects I've seen are all updated from java 6 by now, especially
> as more and more libraries and components are discontinuing support for 1.6
> (WebSphere, just to name one).
>
> Regards,
> Norbert
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:30 PM Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > FYI - I believe we're seeing:
> >
> > https://blog.sonatype.com/enhancing-ssl-security-and-
> http/2-support-for-central
> >
> > ------------
> > ivy-download:
> >       [get] Getting:
> > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.4.0/ivy-2.4.0.jar
> >       [get] To:
> >
> > /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/ZooKeeper_branch34/
> src/java/lib/ivy-2.4.0.jar
> >       [get] Error getting
> > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.4.0/ivy-2.4.0.jar to
> >
> > /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/ZooKeeper_branch34/
> src/java/lib/ivy-2.4.0.jar
> >
> > BUILD FAILED
> > /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/ZooKeeper_branch34/build.xml:392:
> > javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version
> > -----------------
> >
> > It looks like we are ok with jdk 1.8+, and can mitigate 1.7, however 1.6
> > and earlier jdks have no option (aside turning off https usage which
> > doesn't appeal to me).
> >
> > I can update the jenkins 1.7 based jobs. Thoughts on 1.6 and earlier?
> > Perhaps we should use this as an opportunity to explicitly/officially
> > discontinue support in the next version?
> >
> > http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.12/zookeeperAdmin.
> html#sc_requiredSoftware
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>

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