+1 On 4/11/15, 11:56 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>All - > >After committing the changes for KNOX-509 - KnoxSSO - we have a minimum >jdk >requirement of 1.7. > >The apache jenkins job failed due to the dependency from the nimbus jwt >library on 1.7. > >I changed the jenkins configuration and rebuilt and it is stable again. > >Apparently Hadoop common is running with 1.7 since I added the nimbus >library as a dependency there as well and there has been no related >failures. > >I think it is time that we drop 1.6 support - especially given that it is >EOL'd by Oracle since 2013. > >So, I propose that our minimum JRE version be 1.7 in 0.6.0, that we MUST >be >able to build with 1.7 and also run on JRE 1.8. > >We will need to address our building with JDK 1.8 (and tests) in a follow >up release. > >Thoughts? > >thanks, > >--larry
