I was about to propose a move to Java 8 for 5.3 myself. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Ramkumar R. Aiyengar < [email protected]> wrote:
> FYI.. We had considered moving to Jetty 9.3 in Solr for a few features > (HTTP/2), looks like that would force us to use Java 8. > > May be a step closer to us thinking of a cutover ourselves.. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Jesse McConnell" <[email protected]> > Date: 27 May 2015 18:21 > Subject: Re: [jetty-users] 9.3.0 RC1 introduces dependency on Java 8? > To: "JETTY user mailing list" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > David, > > Yes, this is the intention for Jetty 9.3.x moving forward. We had > been operating under the assumption we would support Java 7 but after > looking at what is going on in the SSL areas of the jdk with new > features like SNI, HTTP/2 becoming a standard and requiring Java 8, > and things like we decided to pull that trigger now. This decision > was also somewhat validated in that most all of our professional > support clients had themselves already switched to Java 8 because of > security issues alone making the decision easier for us. We will > continue releasing Jetty 9.2.x iterations should the need arise to > keep Java 7 jetty users up to speed, but the adoption of Java 8 over 7 > has been dramatically different than 7 over 6...much much faster. > > We should have a blog out explaining more of these details sometime soon. > > cheers, > Jesse > -- > jesse mcconnell > [email protected] > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Kellum <[email protected]> > wrote: > > With the latest RC1 I'm receiving the following error if I use java 7 > > (OpenJDK 1.7.0_79, java.class.version: 51.0): > > > > Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 > > > > This doesn't happen with Java 8, nor did it happen using Java 7 with > RC0. Is > > it the intent now to require Java 8 for jetty 9.3.0, upcoming release? > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jetty-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from > > this list, visit > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
