+1 for supporting only 7 or later.
> On 12 Dec 2014, at 21:28, Hongchao Deng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been working on Netty + SSL and one of the changes I do is change
> outgoingQueue to be LinkedBlockingDeque, which requires JDK 6.
>
> As Flavio (fpj) and Patrick (phunt) suggested, there are JIRAs discussing
> JDK7: ZOOKEEPER-2046, ZOOKEEPER-1963. It seems many people are interested
> in an upgrade to JDK 7.
>
> As we know, JDK 6 stops public updates. Making JDK 7 the minimum of
> ZooKeeper going forward will drive us up-to-date and less work on
> supporting older versions of JDK.
>
> I am raising this topic here to gather public responses. The question is
> simple: should we make JDK 7 the minimum support version? Your advice,
> ideas, suggestions are highly welcome and appreciated!
>
> --
> *- Hongchao Deng*
> *Software Engineer*
