For the record, the other announce about this: https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/04/10/jenkins-has-upgraded-to-java-8/ where we also pointed out what Arnaud perfectly summed up already.
NIT: since 2.x we officially have switched from using "slaves" to using "agents" term. 2017-06-24 10:45 GMT+02:00 Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>: > In short no > Jenkins master and slaves have to be launched with Java 8. > Java 7 and older can still be used for builds > https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/01/17/Jenkins-is-upgrading-to-Java-8/ > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Conrad T. Pino <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> - A secure Java 8 JRE is unavailable on CentOS 5. >> - Oracle JRE free support ended long ago. >> - OpenJDK 8 binary packages unavailable. >> - Fedora EPEL latest is OpenJDK 1.7.0_131 >> - Can Jenkins 2.60.1 work with Java 7 JRE slaves? >> >> -- >> 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/ms >> gid/jenkinsci-users/291EDBE6054F46C6BA60EBE29665EBBB%40skyline.pino.net >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/291EDBE6054F46C6BA60EBE29665EBBB%40skyline.pino.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > ----- > Arnaud Héritier > http://aheritier.net > Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com > Twitter/Skype : aheritier > > -- > 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/CAFNCU-8zj%2B94TLh20FwMDWGtbiytSUGXy66cJ9 > hcDQ5a3aaywg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAFNCU-8zj%2B94TLh20FwMDWGtbiytSUGXy66cJ9hcDQ5a3aaywg%40mail.gmail.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/CANWgJS5mCWvouk4FvUUg0gDLpin1EqhhJOF6btkuxoy37gpddw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
