Hi I have started a survey[1] to all known end-users including wechat, twitter and QQ groups. There have been already 200 people took part in. Next week, I will close the survey, and forward the result here.
>From all feedback we have today, we at least have 70% recommend to move on 1.8 JDK directly. [1] https://wj.qq.com/s2/5167509/b9b1 Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108 yuguang zhao <[email protected]> 于2019年12月11日周三 下午12:02写道： > Agree to support from version JDK1.8+ > > 大明 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > > From: "Sheng Wu"<[email protected]>; > > Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2019 08:41 AM > > To: "dev"<[email protected]>; > > > > Subject: [DISCUSSION][IMPORTANT] End the supports of JDK 1.6 in the > > agent side > > > > > > > > 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 >
