Thank you Ashwanth, Ketan and Aravind. Your replies and the resources you linked helped make things a lot clearer for me.
It seems GoCD's stance is "We expect the majority of our users to use the bundled version of Java. Because multiple versions of Java can co-exist on a system with each application running under the desired version, this should not be an issue." I think this makes sense and is a reasonable stance to take. I am not clear how this affects the automatic update process for Static Agents, though. Will the automatic update also update the JRE or will it only update the GoCD Agent JARs? Thank you again, Jason On Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 10:54:31 UTC-4 Aravind SV wrote: > Hello, > > There’s also a similar conversation which happened over at: > https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/8736 > > Is it just too much work to test such an “old” version? > > I think, partially, yes. > > Sorry if this is not the right place to raise this but it didn’t seem > appropriate to raise a GitHub Issue at this point. I would love to hear > other people’s thoughts on this. > > No, this is the right place to bring it up. > > Regards, > Aravind > > * From*: "'Ashwanth Kumar' via go-cd > * Subject*: Re: [go-cd] Java LTS Support in GoCD > * To*: go...@googlegroups.com > * Date*: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 19:57:52 +0530 > Taking the notes from GoCD stance ( > https://www.gocd.org/2019/05/21/official-stance-on-java/) and looking at > IntelliJ blog post ( > https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/09/using-java-11-in-production-important-things-to-know/), > > and OpenJDK releases page (https://jdk.java.net/archive/) and assuming my > understanding is correct, > > It seems like you get LTS support only for paid version of Oracle JDK not > for the OpenJDK variants. > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 7:39 PM Jason Smyth <jsm...@scimarketview.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Based on what I read in this recent thread >> <https://groups.google.com/g/go-cd/c/GeH97RQAcQg>, it seems GoCD only >> supports Java v >= (latest-2), regardless of Long-Term Support status of >> any releases. >> >> This would seem to indicate that even though Java 11 is the most recent >> LTS version and the next LTS version will not be until Java 17, GoCD has >> already dropped support for Java 11 because Java 14 (not LTS) and 15 (not >> LTS) have already been released, so (latest-2) is now 13. >> >> This will effectively force all GoCD users to either go long periods of >> time without updating GoCD (i.e. do not run any versions of GoCD that >> support neither v11 nor v17) or switch to non-LTS versions of Java. Since >> non-LTS versions of Java are only supported for 6 months until the next >> version is released, this then forces all GoCD users to major Java version >> updates every 6 months if they want to run only supported versions. >> >> Am I missing something here? Why does GoCD not support the latest LTS >> version of Java? Why support Java 13 (support ended more than a year ago in >> March 2020) but not 11 (supported until at least 2024)? Is it just too much >> work to test such an "old" version? >> >> Sorry if this is not the right place to raise this but it didn't seem >> appropriate to raise a GitHub Issue at this point. I would love to hear >> other people's thoughts on this. >> >> Regards, >> Jason Smyth >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "go-cd" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to go-cd+un...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "go-cd" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to go-cd+un...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/CAD9m7CyS62bp0%2BtKKEL_mJrMy07kgM4LMics%3Df0zmV9DCTMUCQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/CAD9m7CyS62bp0%2BtKKEL_mJrMy07kgM4LMics%3Df0zmV9DCTMUCQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "go-cd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to go-cd+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/15d70f91-7062-4c36-a0ff-3d3383c65ca0n%40googlegroups.com.
