+1 to mege it for 2.2.0 and to release it as soon as possible to start
getting feedback.
I would like, though, to have complete support for this and see
jclouds-karaf updated accordingly. I did a first try but got stuck with an
error I've not been able to resolve yet:
I merged a few compatibility commits and opened a pull request to
require Java 8 and Guava 21 in master:
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/1197
I have a follow up commit which will allow use with Guava 21-24.1. This
is the biggest backwards-incompatible change in jclouds history and we
