Lior Zeno created FLUME-2945: -------------------------------- Summary: Bump java target version to 1.8 Key: FLUME-2945 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2945 Project: Flume Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: v1.8.0 Reporter: Lior Zeno Fix For: v1.8.0
We should move to Java 8 as a minimum requirement. # Java 7 is EOL'ed http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html. # Many projects are adopting java 8 as a minimum requirement, for instance: * Solr 6: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6722 * Hbase 2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15624 * elasticsearch 5: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/setup.html -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)