+1 for this update with appropriate version bump (i.e. 0.7.0 instead of 0.6.2) to signify JDK8 requirement.
Hendy On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 00:36 Svante Schubert <svante.schub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Developers & Users, > > I have updated as requested in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-415 > to the latest RDF library Jena Apache 3.0.1. > Unfortunately this library requires JDK 8. > > May we as well raise our dependency to JDK 8? > In general I would like to go up, but is it too problematic for Linux > contributions to update? > As a compromise we might do a release with the old Jena dependency and > update afterwards the SNAPSHOT version to be dependent to JDK 8. > > What do you think? > > I will undo the change as the automatic tests currently fail with > > "class file has wrong version 52.0, should be 50.0" > > > Kind regards, > Svante >
