The deprecation is valid for both server and the agent. We are currently re-working the installer to bundle a Java 8 JRE. It should be done in a release or two.
You can keep track of the progress here. https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/2213 On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Carl Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed a new version of a 16.9 agent yesterday and noticed that it is > still shipping with Java 7 JRE. > > I have read that Java 7 was deprecated as of 16.5 and that GO will stop > supporting Java 7 as of version 17.1 therefore I was surprised to see that > the agent is still shipping with Java 7. > Is the deprecation referring to the server side of GO only? Is the agent > still supposed to run on Java 1.7? > > The System Requirements > <https://docs.go.cd/current/installation/system_requirements.html> > document list Java 7 as requirement for both server and agent. > > Thanks > > Carl > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 15:10:58 UTC, Carl Reid wrote: >> >> We have just upgraded our server 16.2.1 and at the same time we went to >> Java 1.7 revision 95. >> >> This seems to have gone well however we saw a large number of Java >> exceptions int he logs just after the upgrade. They seem to have settled >> down now so possibly it was related to the upgrade itself? >> >> I understand that the GO Agent is roughly made up of three layers, Java, >> the boot-strapper and the agent itself. >> I believe the boot-strapper will upgrade the agent component >> automatically however what about the boot-strapper version itself and the >> Java version? >> >> >> 1. Is there a minimum java version for the agents ? >> 2. Should the java version of the agents be kept in sync with the >> java version of the server? >> 3. Is there an update mechanism other than a manual re-install of the >> agent that would update all 3 parts of the agent? >> >> >> It would be really useful to have detailed information on the versions of >> these components and their compatibility on the download page of >> www.go.cd for reference. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> carl >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "go-cd" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "go-cd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
