Is there any chance to include this fix into 2.8 RC1  
https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/c/12990/
This fix is tiny and simple, but prevents a lot of annoyance in my project.


On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:28:51 AM UTC-7, Goktug Gokdogan wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected] 
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>> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 4:01:00 PM UTC+1, Jens wrote:
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>>> The thing is, there's always a level of paranoia about GWT's impending 
>>>> doom and apparent lack of activity shown in the gwt users group, and a 
>>>> release coming at an unknown time helps to fuel that paranoia.
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>>> Maybe we should post everything in 
>>> https://groups.google.com/a/gwtproject.org/forum/#!forum/gwt-reviews 
>>> also to the gwt users group to defeat that paranoia once and for all. You 
>>> would never run short on activity then ;-)
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>>> That being said I think its fine to have RC builds even with that memory 
>>> issue to get people test the RC. But the final release of 2.8 should have a 
>>> fixed JDT to make sure everyone can use it. I am pretty sure there are 
>>> quite some people who simply can not increase their heap by 50-100%.
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>> Will those people switch to Java 8 at the same time they upgrade to GWT 
>> 2.8? I doubt it.
>> If (as I understand it) the leak only happens when using "-sourceLevel 
>> 8", then I'm fine with a 2.8.0 without waiting for the fix (but a big bold 
>> warning in the release notes), and a 2.8.1 as soon as the fix is available.
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> People will not be able to use '-sourceLevel 7" once the JRE patches for 
> java 8 starts getting submitted.
> So the idea was to default to -sourceLevel 8. This is ok because what 
> version GWT used to compile source doesn't effect their code so most people 
> wouldn't have noticed it (if there wasn't a memory issue).
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