Hi All dev team This is a super important discussion and may require a vote later. SkyWalking now supports JDK 6-13 in the agent side for a long time, and is suffering the risk of RPC component bug too. gRPC has given up the supports for JDK6 one year before. Also ref to RedHat OpenJDK maintenance plan[1], OpenJDK6 has not been supported in December 2016. Oracle JDK has similar storay.
I want to initial that, SkyWalking should decide to give up the support on JDK 1.6, and move to higher JDK requirement. The question will be, does JDK 1.7 or 1.8 make more sense? All people in the dev channel, your responses are super important. [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 Sheng Wu 吴晟 Apache SkyWalking Apache Incubator Apache ShardingSphere, ECharts, DolphinScheduler podlings Zipkin Twitter, wusheng1108
