There is no plan to make Java 11 a Jenkins minimum requirement yet. When the Docker images were changed to Java 11 <https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2021/08/17/docker-images-use-jdk-11-by-default/> in August, 2021, the discussions in the governing board meeting noted that we don't have a plan to make Java 11 a minimum requirement for Jenkins. Java 11 discussions were also held in the Java 11 workshop at the June 28, 2021 contributor summit <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hger_BTp3D0>.
The "Reasoning" <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/blob/master/jep/232/README.adoc#reasoning> section of JEP-232 that describes the change to Java 11 as the default in the Docker images notes that there are still too many users running Jenkins on Java 8 to consider dropping support for Java 8. The JGit development team is discussing their move to Java 11 as minimum required Java version. JGit 6 (no release date stated yet, but under discussion, possibly as soon as early 2022) will drop support for Java 8. The discussion thread is available on their mailing list archive <https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jgit-dev/msg04085.html>. We're relying on JGit's continued support of older versions for security fixes since they've done that in the past. Mark Waite On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:30:16 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > There have been some announcements on Jetty user mailing list regarding > EOL of Jetty 9.4.x (the current version used by Winstone) see thread here > [1]. > Please note EOL of Jetty 9.4.x is not soon (probably 2 maye more 3 years). > But as it turns EOL, we will have to upgrade to Jetty 10 (or 11 but not > sure at this stage Jenkins will have been migrated to use > jakarta.servlet/jakarta.* namespaces). > Is there any plan to make Jenkins Java 11 as a minimum requirement? soon? > > regards > -- > Olivier > [1] https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jetty-users/msg10029.html > -- 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/25eddfe4-2cd5-489d-ba7d-2f405b63acbcn%40googlegroups.com.
