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 <m...@batmat.net> 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 <aherit...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 <cp...@vflyer.com> 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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.
