It’s just down to defaults I think. We’ve seen the numbers rise as we changed the website and helm chart to use Java 11 by default
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 17:08, Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMo7PtLW05CwT6JyDHHpq52V%2BZwcRy3hQxPW7O9U-D%3DR1adL7Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAH-3BieiWTczU_K3nJ4edycg-cQ9dN8v98qPiAdHQb47j%3Dmy0A%40mail.gmail.com.
