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Bridger Howell commented on AVRO-2043:
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[~lukejackson]: See AVRO-2079
> Move to java8
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> Key: AVRO-2043
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2043
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.9.0
> Reporter: Gabor Szadovszky
> Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> java6 is really old and java7 is already EOD for 2yrs. It is time to move to
> java8 in the next major release (1.9.0):
> * update source/target to 1.8.0 in the pom.xml
> * update the Dockerfile to used jdk8
> * ensure that lang/java builds fine with jdk8
> * ensure that all unit tests pass in lang/java with jdk8
> * ensure that everything builds fine and tests pass by using the new docker
> image
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