On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote:
Oracle released Java 6 in 2006, ended support for Java 6 in 2013 and released Java 7 in 2011 and ended support in 2015. Java 8 was released in 2014.
Many of our users work for big conservative organisations, who'd much rather throw money at a vendor to extend support rather than risk an upgrade. As such, we've tended to be very slow to bump the minimum version up, because of the potential impact, not only for our users directly, but also those who get POI via frameworks/runtimes that also lag.
There are a few language features introduced in Java 7 that would be nice to use in POI. This would mean asking everyone to move off of Java 6, but seems justifiable.
It might be best off asking on the user list how many people are still on Java 6, to get an idea of how big an issue that would be. However, note that many on the users list will be more advanced than the wider usage base!
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