+1 as well. Also, we should be able to leverage some functionality from JDK8 without the fear of breaking builds.
Best, Sandeep On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Philip Zampino <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > -- > Phil > > > On 9/18/17, 10:38 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote: > > All - > > We have been supporting Java 7 long past it's EOL which was in 2015 in > order to be compatible with deployments that are conservative in > upgrading > to Java 8. > > I feel that at this point anyone that has not upgraded is not > sufficiently > concerned about the security implications and that this is no longer > being > conservative. :) > > In addition, a number of components within the hadoop ecosystem have > already dropped Java 7 support. The popularity of these particular > components more or less means that Java 8 will likely be in place > anyway. > > This will also enable us to upgrade to the pac4j 2.x releases which > have > features that we would benefit from. > > If anyone has any concerns about this - please feel free to raise a > flag. > > thanks, > > --larry > > >
