Well, no. The Java 8 change hasn't been made yet, though it is coming according to the announced plan (first weekly should be on April, and first LTS requiring it should be around early June). And Java 7 has been around for a long time.
And we already discussed the fact that though some platforms may not have a JDK packaged with std distro, it's dead simple to download it directly from , uncompress and be done with it on the big majority of platforms (Centos 6 is not an issue at all for instance, I can relate). 2017-02-27 19:29 GMT+01:00 Peter McNab <[email protected]>: > I don't remember exactly when the change was made, but keep in mind that > Java7 is required for slave nodes with recent versions of Jenkins. If you > have slave nodes without that available they will be dead in the water. > > Pete > > On 2/27/2017 9:59 AM, Raj wrote: > > Thank you for the feedback. > > Sure. we can do that and more simply with a vm snapshot for rollback. > > but in case of staging upgrade how do you propose \ suggest to manage the > slave \ agents ? i ask since if i bring up the staging with a rsynced > config then the agents will try to connect too and might cause a issue. or > should we just make all slaves offline when i take a snaphot so when they > do comeback they will be not connected to the master and that way we can > test just the master and once it is fine then just connect all agents to > the new server ? > > > > On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 1:35:25 PM UTC-5, Raj wrote: >> >> Hello, >> We have been stuck to a very old version of Jenkins for a while now. >> 1.580. we are on Centos 6. >> >> I am wondering if any one has upgraded from 1.580 to 2.32.2 via yum and >> including all plugins ? >> >> If someone could share their experience it will be really appreciated. >> >> apart from need for jdk 1.8, is there any other hard dependency for the >> upgrade? >> Regards, >> Raj >> >> -- > 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/3f246128-6cea-4013-a175-c27bcce0e588%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/3f246128-6cea-4013-a175-c27bcce0e588%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/0b283e4a-7b5f-a981-3dac-212d45358eec%40perforce.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/0b283e4a-7b5f-a981-3dac-212d45358eec%40perforce.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CANWgJS5UFiUi-WGM7SkLx%3D1R49YadXmKUgV9g%3De7-UH8rognrQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
