Certainly we should recommend Java 8 as the preferred runtime. In general I think we should recommend the latest Java general release according to Oracle. That implies routinely testing against EA builds of the next line (9 currently) so that we are not caught unprepared by showstopper incompatibilities as happened with 8 (due to bytecode manipulation libraries not handling new rt.jar properly, IIUC).
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