Hi all,

A while a go I have created a ticket for upgrading Remoting to Java 8 (
JENKINS-43985 <https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-43985>). I was 
waiting with this step, because 2.46.x LTS was Java 7 compatible. Now we 
have completely switched to Java 8 in 2.60.1, hence it is not a blocker 
anymore. So I would like to update the Java requirement in Remoting, 
especially since there is an interest to do it in order to use some Java 8 
features (e.g. here <https://github.com/jenkinsci/remoting/pull/174>).

Potential impact, edge cases:

   - If somebody uses custom Remoting versions (e.g. by downloading the 
   latest version to pick fixes), such approach will stop working on Java 7. 
   So, all users of Java 7 will have to do custom builds if they want to get 
   Remoting fixes
   - Backporting of fixes (e.g. custom forks or security backports) may be 
   complicated
   - Swarm Plugin's Client will have to update to Java 8 in order to bundle 
   the new remoting version
   
Does anybody have any concerns about it?

Thanks in advance,
Oleg Nenashev

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