FWIW, answering myself for reference: We're now running successfully with JDK8 Jenkins 1.593 on a supposedly mid-size Jenkins installation (~15/20 slaves, ~600 actives jobs, rhel, windows, aix).
HTH Cheers 2014-08-29 10:16 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Sorry for excavating an old thread. I thought I'd be better for future > reference since this thread is also one of the first foundable through > archive/google. > Realizing we still run our Jenkins server with Java 6, I started thinking > about running it with JDK7 or JDK8. > > From this thread in february, it was still unsupported. But I seem to > remember other threads talking about it (and in the meantime java 8 went > GA). > > Anyway, reading https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Meet+Jenkins > : > "you need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or later. " > > So, JDK8 is supposedly supported. > > Is this page still up-to-date? If not, or if there're specifics like the > first Jenkins version to support Java 8 or so, would we be able to add > those informations? > > Thanks for the heads up. > > PS: btw, this link on SO > <http://serverfault.com/questions/488745/which-java-version-should-i-run-jenkins-with> > also comes in the first results so I suppose it would also be good to add a > link there in the comment or to a reference page for Jenkins JDK support > > > 2014-02-26 14:00 GMT+01:00 Robert Krüger <[email protected]>: > >> OK, thanks for the clarification! Then I'll stop testing until I read >> here that it does :-). >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Mark Waite <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Jenkins does not support JDK 8. >> > >> > On Feb 26, 2014 5:47 AM, "Robert Krüger" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I did not find any info in the archive. Every once in a while I try >> >> starting my Jenkins installation (Mac) using the latest Oracle JDK 8 >> >> Previews (including the first release candidate) and get errors with >> >> weird stacktraces in some cases when starting, in others when using >> >> the web interface. Does it make sense to post this here or is JDK 8 >> >> not supported as a runtime for Jenkins yet? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Robert >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Jenkins Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net >> Sauvez un arbre, >> Mangez un castor ! nbsp;! >> > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" 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-users/CANWgJS5ssb7Hcv_Fp9NsWO9ksN_JdkWZyLocJi0Tfxfdq6FOQw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
