As noted by several other people already, Jenkins releases which are essential for security, performance and feature-availability reasons require Java 8. Since Ubuntu 14.04LTS is still a current, supported release it's difficult to understand how a core component of a server platform like Java would lag behind for such a long time.
Upgrading to Ubuntu 16 is on our roadmap, but it's non-trivial. In the interim, I have no defensible reason to offer people who are legitimately concerned about the delay in our plans to upgrade Jenkins. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Backporters, which is subscribed to trusty-backports. Matching subscriptions: ubuntu-backporters https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368094 Title: Please backport openjdk-8 from Xenial to Trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1368094/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
