I'm in favor of dropping support for java 6 and 7 and have little reason to
believe anyone still using older releases is also taking library upgrades.
-Carter
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, at 21:15, Robert Middleton wrote:
> According to Adopt OpenJDK[1], version 8 will be supported until at least
> May 2026, while Java 11 will be supported until at least October 2024.
> That obviously doesn't affect Java 7, but it may affect any plans as to
> when Java 8 will be dropped.
>
> -Robert Middleton
>
> [1]: https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 7:48 PM Gary Gregory wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 7:20 PM Ralph Goers
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > InfoQ had an article from Sept 2020 indicating Java 11 was about 20% of
> > production deployments and Java 8 had the rest. So release 2.x is going to
> > be around a while.
> >
> > I'm fine with that. We have users that are cranking along on Java 8
> > set ups, that's not going to change for a while I guess ... until the
> > next panic over licensing, EOL, or somesuch.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > >
> > > Ralph
> > >
> > > > On Mar 13, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Ralph Goers
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The JRebel report from January shows that about 69% of Java users are
> > using Java 8. Java 11 is at about 36%. The only problem here is that Java
> > 12 or newer is 12% and Java 7 or older is 15% That totals 132% so I really
> > have no idea what to make of these numbers.
> > > >
> > > > Ralph
> > > >
> > > >> On Mar 13, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Gary Gregory
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> That's fine with me.
> > > >>
> > > >> FWIW: At work, what is holding us back moving from Java 8 to 11 is
> > > >> that IBM does not support a production level Java 11 on the i/Series
> > > >> yet (EA only IIRC).
> > > >>
> > > >> Gary
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 5:28 PM Ralph Goers <
> > ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Log4j 2.3 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 6. We have
> > made no patches to it since it was released in 2015. As I recall Java 6
> > was already EOL on public updates by the time we moved to Java 7. As near
> > as I can tell Oracle’s extended support for Java 6 ended in December 2018.
> > Maven Central indicates about 1.7% of all log4j-api downloads are for
> > release 2.3 and prior, including the alpha and beta releases.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Log4j 2.12.1 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 7. Java 7
> > public updates ended in April 2015, premier support ended in Mar 2019, and
> > extended support ends in July 2022. Maven Central statistics show that
> > Log4j 2 1.12.1 is our 3rd most popular version of log4j-api and about 12%
> > of downloads. Of course, if is far more likely that users of Log4j 2.12.1
> > are running Java 8 than Java 7 since the latest JRebel report indicates
> > that only 7% of Java users are using Java 7 or older.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I suspect that if I tried to do a patch release to 2.3 today it
> > would be difficult. I still have Java 6 present on my computer, but that
> > computer has probably been upgraded twice since 2.3 was released.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I am proposing that we publish that we no longer support Java 6 or
> > Java 7. If we want to continue to support Java 7 we should at least
> > indicate when we will drop support.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thoughts?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Ralph
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
