All, Java8 is targeted for post 4.9. Oracle provides an official PPA for Java6, Java7, Java8, and Java9 [1] that supports Ubuntu 14.04. It is important to bear in mind that Java7 was EOL’ed on April 2015 [2]. In my opinion, the recent history of Java vulnerabilities dictates that we cannot allow a particular distribution’s failure to update their to supported JDK place our user community at risk.
Thanks, -John [1]: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java [2]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On May 13, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Erik Weber <terbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It only means that we are dropping support for newer ACS versions. > It most likely won't get into 4.9, which means 14.04 will be supported a > few more weeks/months. > > We could mention in the 4.9 RN that for the next release (call it 5.0 > because of the change?) will only be supported by $xyz distribution versjons > > -- > Erik > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > >> I am in favor of Java 8, but it means we would drop Ubuntu 14.04 support. >> >> That would make life a bit easier though, since Ubuntu 16.04 has systemd >> and 14.04 still has sysvinit and that make packaging a problem. >> >>> Op 13 mei 2016 om 19:10 schreef Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>: >>> >>> >>> All, >>> >>> >>> I've started some work [pr] that aims to adapt CloudStack to recent >> changes in the environments and the ecosystem: >>> >>> >>> - Java8, Spring 4.x >>> >>> - SystemD >>> >>> - MariaDB and MySQL >>> >>> - Reduce distro provided package dependency >>> >>> - Packaging, CI and testing >>> >>> >>> These are long term goals but I've identified some concrete goals: >>> >>> >>> - Migrate to Java8 both for building codebase and running CloudStack >> (mgmt server, usage, agent etc) >>> >>> - Migrate to Spring 4.x as 3.x is not supported to work with Java7 >>> >>> - Fix CI and packaging to use Java8 >>> >>> - Reduce distro specific package dependency such as Tomcat, since we're >> already using Jetty (maven-jetty-plugin) during development we can use >> embedded Jetty for mgmt server(s) as well >>> >>> - Update systemvm template to include Java8 JRE >>> >>> - Update packaging to support systemd (CentOS7+ has some systemd support >> and thanks to Wido's recent PR we would have systemd support for debian >> packages in future too) >>> >>> - Optimize JVM options for long running mgmt server(s), agent(s) and >> usage server(s) to run on JRE8 >>> >>> >>> I've sent a [pr] to show some initial progress in this regard where >> we've some outstanding issues but we're able to build/run/test with Java8 + >> Spring 4.x and TravisCI has been fixed to use JDK8 as well. >>> >>> >>> Testing in general would be a huge requirement for this initiative, >> especially testing of all the plugins. Java7 has EOL-ed and Java9 is around >> the corner; we've seen good amount of security and memory issues with >> Java7/6 and Tomcat6.x; therefore it seems necessary to work on above as we >> move towards a LTS release in upcoming months. >>> >>> >>> Request for comments, suggestions and guidance. Thanks. >>> >>> >>> [pr] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1546 >>> >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Rohit Yadav >>> >>> rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com >>> www.shapeblue.com >>> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK >>> @shapeblue >>
