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:

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> 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.
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