On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 1:46 PM Randall Becker wrote: > I'm sorry I missed the meeting. I wanted to bring up that JGit 6 is moving > to Java 11 as the minimum support version. This will have downstream > impacts on Jenkins Java 8 support. What I am hoping is that we can retain > 5.x for the time being so that Jenkins can still be used in commercial > settings (note that there is a licensing change from Oracle for Java > between 8 and 11 that changes the permitted use). The clause was reverted > at 17, which is where my team went for new development that does not have > to be deployed any time soon. >
Thanks for sharing your concern. The git client plugin will remain with JGit 5 even if the JGit project releases JGit 6. The git client plugin is installed on 95% of the 290,000 Jenkins installations that are reporting statistics back to the Jenkins stats server. Last results hinted that less than 50% of those installations are running Java 11. We won't let the git client plugin depend on a JGit release that would block a significant portion of the Jenkins installed base from using the git client plugin. When JGit 6 releases and requires Java 11, the Jenkins project will remain with JGit 5. We've been on older versions of JGit before. We'll do it again. Mark Waite -- 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/CAO49JtEdJrF8DU-EjNGNJ4_isTZvi36GW4Ce4sP%3D%3DT2dqN55Bg%40mail.gmail.com.
