Personal opinion, I think supporting 1.7+, 1.6 is potentially dangerous and may cause some difficult problems to explain.
Hongtao Gao <[email protected]> 于2019年12月11日周三 上午9:53写道： > 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 >
