+100500 Andrey Pokhilko
On 06/01/2015 04:14 PM, sebb wrote: > I think we should require a minimum of Java 7 for the next JMeter release. > (It currently requires 1.6) > > This is because: > - Java 7 supports proper certificate generation for the HTTP recorder. > It will probably allow some code simplification. > - the Javadoc vulnerability CVE-2013-1571 has been fixed since Java 7 > update 25 (June 2013). We could drop the patch. > - any others? > > Of course Java 7 is just about EOL, but I've not yet seen any > compelling reasons to require a minimum of Java 8. If there are such > reasons (other than Java 7 is EOL) please raise them here. > > A very minor consideration is that Javadoc 7 seems to have been fixed > to generate lower-case HTML tags - e.g. <table> rather than <TABLE>. I > assume that will remain the case. So there will be a once-off SVN > difference when older API docs are replaced with new ones.
