On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:42 AM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am in favor of making JDK11 the default in all our distributions, > including controller and agent Docker images. > At the same time I am afraid that removal of Java 1.8 support is > premature. The vast majority of Jenkins users still uses this version, and > the migration to Java 11 won't be seamless in al l cases. For example, > Maven Plugin will effectively switch project builds to Java 11 once the > agent images are updated. It will cause unexpected issues in user builds > here and there. Nothing should be critical, but we should not force users > to migrate immediately. > > IMHO there should be a grace period between Java 8 support deprecation and > the actual removal. Maybe 6 months or so. > Agree; I'd even be more conservative than just six months. We can and should update the default Docker images to run on JDK 11. But we shouldn't ignore that just ~0.3% of instances use Java 11, let's do something about that first. I wouldn't be surprised that there are still some problems to work out but we just have no users yet who would be affected. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMo7PtLW05CwT6JyDHHpq52V%2BZwcRy3hQxPW7O9U-D%3DR1adL7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
