I did some research on this topic, here's what I got from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html
1. JDK 6 has gone through "extended support" last year, so it makes sense to remove it from our agent support list. 2. JDK 7 is a reasonable minimum version to support because the user can still get "extended support" if they want to pay some fee to Oracle. And my last suggestion is to provide a stable release which still supports JDK6, some user who want to use JDK6 can enjoy it. Thanks Hongtao Gao Sheng Wu <[email protected]> 于2019年12月11日周三 上午8:41写道： > 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 > -- Hongtao Gao Apache SkyWalking && Apache ShardingSphere Twitter, @hanahmily
