I found this update that says Oracle has extended the public support of Java 8 about 4 months past the release of Java 11. https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/02/Java8SupportJan18 <https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/02/Java8SupportJan18>
Ralph > On Feb 12, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > There is an article at InfoQ that discusses Oracle’s support strategy [1]. It > contains a chart that shows the support lifetime for all Oracle releases. [2] > It references a blog post from Azul discussing Oracle’s support strategy. [3] > These charts are confirmed by Oracle’s roadmap. [4]. The end of public > updates for Java 7 was in April 2015 and the end of premier support is July > 2019. [5] > > First, based on this and the decline in the interest in Java 7 and that we > are now about 3 years past the last public updates I am fine with making Java > 8 our minimum version along with the release of Log4j 3.0. FWIW, while SLF4J > still supports Java 5, as of today Logback 1.3.0 now requires a minimum of > Java 8. > > After that things start to get strange. I think we will have to take > advantage of the multi-release jar support more and more in the future > because I don’t see how we could ever make Java 9 or 10 the minimum supported > version since Oracle will effectively drop support for them 6 months after > they are introduced. I would think we would have to wait until Java 8 usage > declines to the levels Java 7 currently is before upgrading and at that time > we would have to skip all the way to Java 11. > > Whatever we decide to do I would prefer if we could publish our JVM support > strategy on the web site. > > Ralph > > > > 1. https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/JavaSupportJan18 > <https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/JavaSupportJan18> > 2. > https://res.infoq.com/news/2018/01/JavaSupportJan18/en/resources/1java-se-lifecycle-5-year-timeline-1024x683-1517328730133.jpg > > <https://res.infoq.com/news/2018/01/JavaSupportJan18/en/resources/1java-se-lifecycle-5-year-timeline-1024x683-1517328730133.jpg> > 3. https://www.azul.com/java-stable-secure-free-choose-two-three/ > <https://www.azul.com/java-stable-secure-free-choose-two-three/> > 4. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html> > 5. > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html#java-commercial-offerings > > <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html#java-commercial-offerings>
