+1 to Java8 - we have already moved to Java8 last year.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi Harsha,
>
> Are you saying that you are aware of many Kafka users still using Java 7
> who would be ready to upgrade to the next Kafka feature release (whatever
> that version number is) before they can upgrade to Java 8?
>
> The 0.10.1 versus 0.11.0.0 is something that can be discussed separately as
> no decision has been made on what the next version will be (we did go
> straight from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 whereas the 0.8.x series had multiple minor
> releases). Also note that Kafka bug fixes go to 0.10.0.1, not 0.10.1 and
> 0.10.0.x would still be available for users using Java 7.
>
> Ismael
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote:
>
> > -1 on removing suport 0.10.1.0 . This is minor release and removing
> > support JDK 1.7 which lot of users still depend on not a good idea and
> > definitely they are not getting enough heads up to migrate their other
> > services to JDK1.7.
> > We can consider this for 0.11.0 release time line again depends on the
> > dates .
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harsha
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, at 03:08 PM, Ismael Juma wrote:
> > > Hi Jan,
> > >
> > > That's interesting. Do you have some references you can share on this?
> It
> > > would be good to know which Java 8 versions have been tested and
> whether
> > > it
> > > is something that is being worked on.
> > >
> > > Ismael
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:02 AM, <jan.o...@wooga.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Ismael,
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately Java 8 doesn't play nice with FreeBSD. We have seen a
> > lot of
> > > > JVM crashes running our 0.9 brokers on Java 8... Java 7 on the other
> > hand
> > > > is totally stable.
> > > >
> > > > Until these issues have been addressed, this would cause some serious
> > > > issues for us.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> >
>



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