Am 1. Juni 2015 15:14:11 MESZ, schrieb sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: >I think we should require a minimum of Java 7 for the next JMeter >release. >(It currently requires 1.6)
+1 > >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? - We can drop the thread local random class. - A few compile warnings in respect to generics can be fixed. Regards Felix > >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.
