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Gary Gregory commented on CODEC-253:
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[~melloware]: Yes, IMO, we can close this; YMMV.
[~michael-o]: The comment
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-253?focusedCommentId=16761022&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16761022:
{quote}Java 7 still receives updates, many commercial vendors will provide
updates too.
{quote}
is to me a reason _against_ staying on Java 7. We cannot get these updates,
only companies that pay for Java 7 commercial support (from Oracle) get them.
So we have to way to know if newer "private" versions of Java 7 work or break
for us. Granted this is an unlikely case, but I do see why, as a FOSS
organization we should support Java 7 when support is only offered to paid
customers.
> Upgrade to Java 8
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>
> Key: CODEC-253
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-253
> Project: Commons Codec
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Rob Tompkins
> Assignee: Rob Tompkins
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.13
>
>
> Upgrade to java 8 as the target of of the build.
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