Re: [DISCUSSION][IMPORTANT] End the supports of JDK 1.6 in the agent side

[yuguang zhao]

Agree to support from version JDK1.8+

大明 <zt...@foxmail.com> 于2019年12月11日周三 上午10:31写道：

> For JDK6/7, I think we fix fatal error and security issues only.
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> From:&nbsp;"Sheng Wu"<wush...@apache.org&gt;;
> Date:&nbsp;Wed, Dec 11, 2019 08:41 AM
> To:&nbsp;"dev"<dev@skywalking.apache.org&gt;;
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> Subject:&nbsp;[DISCUSSION][IMPORTANT] End the supports of JDK 1.6 in the
> agent side
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> Hi All dev team
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> All people in the dev channel, your responses are super important.
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> [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
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