It sounds like a good idea to get ahead of the curve.. We probably need a 'plan' which we can all get behind and ready the users for. especially if it is going to mean dropping some OS support.
one question, if we 'bundle java' and a Java vulnerability is found are we likely to have to release a CloudStack update, rather than advise users to upgrade their JRE? ________________________________ From: Marc-Aurèle Brothier <m...@brothier.org> Sent: 20 March 2019 17:31 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move to jdk11 and use jlink Hi Rohit, I think it’s a good move. After some recent testing I found some incompatibility between the jdk11 and older version of spring. I don’t have at hands the links but you have to upgrade to some specific version to make it work. Marco paul.an...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue > On 20 Mar 2019, at 05:59, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > All, > > JDK8 has reached eol wrt public updates from Oracle and JDK11 is the most > recent LTS. Should we discuss and plan the next release to move to JDK11, the > effort may be as minimal as changing the jdk requirements in maven config > files. > > Wrt consumption on centos6 (was there was an argument to drop centos6 > support?) , centos7 and ubuntu 16.04+ with project jigsaw and jdk11's jlink > we can ship stripped down jre along with CloudStack artifacts. This would > mean we may no longer depend on distribution provided JRE, much like shipping > a single uberjar we can bundle stripped jre in it as well, including for > usage, kvm agent and systemvm agents. This can be beneficial in project's > control wrt security and CloudStack can still run on platforms that don't > have openjdk11 packages. The effort here I guess would be to create build > assemblies or use a maven plugin to export such a bundle. Thoughts? > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > @shapeblue > > >
