That would be very doubtful imho. It is much more adventurous to go latest Kafka release than to go JDK 8. On 17 Jun 2016 3:19 a.m., "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 > > >
