As far as I read from Oracle JDK 8 and JRE 8 Certified System ConfigurationsContents <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/certconfig-2095354.html>, RHEL 5.5 and later are supported by Oracle JDK 1.8.0, though there is no JavaFX support on that platform. Since Oracle is also a Linux vendor, it is in their best interest to support Oracle JDK 1.8.0 on the Linux operating systems which they support (including Oracle Linux 5, a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5).
The Oracle JDK installation instructions <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/linux_jdk.html#A1098871> make no particular exceptions for RHEL 5 (or for Oracle Linux 5). It should "just work". Oracle offers "extended support" for Oracle Linux 5 until 26 Jun 2020. They either have ended regular support for Oracle Linux 5 or will do so very soon. I suspect the same is true of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Red Hat Linux wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL_5> shows that RHEL 5 is in extended support as of June 2017. What was it that made you think that "a secure Java 8 JRE is unavailable on CentOS 5"? Mark Waite On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:21 AM Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/msgid/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%2B94TLh20FwMDWGtbiytSUGXy66cJ9hcDQ5a3aaywg%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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CANWgJS5mCWvouk4FvUUg0gDLpin1EqhhJOF6btkuxoy37gpddw%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/CAO49JtH9PtBMOCyARS3F2XFs3M-Lf%2BWSHg95nJawABt3wUoS5g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
