For completeness, Adoptium (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK) also has a target of May 2026 and October 2024 for JDK 8 & 11 respectively (which isn't surprising as both Red Hat and Adoptium are probably using the same binary) - see Support | Adoptium - Open source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries <https://adoptium.net/support.html>.
Richard. On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 17:49, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:49 PM Oleg Nenashev wrote: > >> I think we should eventually drop Java 8 support but only when we have >> enough Java 11 adoption >> What we could do in short term is to deprecate Java 8 and to put explicit >> recommendation to switch to Java 11 or 17 preview >> > > An administrative monitor has recommended Java 11 since Jenkins 2.296 > (weekly) <https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/#v2.296> and Jenkins 2.303.1 > (LTS) <https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/#v2.303.1>. > > The Docker image default labels were switched to Java 11 in Jenkins 2.307 > (weekly) and Jenkins 2.303.1 (LTS). > > >> IMHO we are already in the state when we can announce our intent to drop >> support for Java 8, maybe with minimum timeframe of 6/9 months in the >> announcement. The actual timeline could be even longer, e.g. 1 year for LTS >> best case >> >> > I don't yet see the compelling benefit of dropping Java 8 support. Red > Hat has declared that they will support OpenJDK 8 > <https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013> until May 2026 and will > support OpenJDK 11 until October 2024. Amazon Corretto has extended LTS > support for Corretto 8 > <https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-corretto-8-11-support-extended/> > to May 2026 and Corretto 11 to September 2027. Oracle will provide Premier > Support for Oracle Java 8 SE > <https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html> > until March 2022 and will provide Premier Support for Oracle Java 11 SE > until September 2023. > > I don't yet see a compelling benefit that would motivate us to drop > support for OpenJDK 8. Its support lifetime is almost as long as Java 11. > > 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/CAO49JtEgpv1vE1e0k_hbYm7HxQ53G0OEmYMZhMw7R3EGX_jyew%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAO49JtEgpv1vE1e0k_hbYm7HxQ53G0OEmYMZhMw7R3EGX_jyew%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/CAAy0hwc3xO6jdMjdLnf353uB-QMj75_YaFxZSh36HAo8jC%2B%3D7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
