Hi, yes with Karaf 3.0.2 you'll have full Java8 support. The systembundle issue is also fixed on it. So no need to hesitate.
regards, Achim 2014-11-25 22:23 GMT+01:00 thully <[email protected]>: > I guess our main concern right now is risk - we're currently working on a > minor point release, and our only reason for upgrading there is to have > full > Java 8 support. Would it be much riskier to upgrade to 3.0.2? > > I recall that when we previously tried upgrading to Karaf 3.0.1, there were > some significant problems - the console was completely broken on Java 8, > and > Karaf would always copy all the system bundles to the user's .m2 repository > (we do not want it touching that, nor making extraneous copies of bundles). > As such, we went with Karaf 2.3.5 as these issues did not occur there, and > our application will at least start on Java 8 (though some Karaf > functionality is still broken). Does Karaf 3.0.2 fix these problems? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Upgrading-Karaf-2-3-5-to-2-4-0-or-3-0-2-tp4036578p4036679.html > Sent from the Karaf - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Apache Member Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & Project Lead blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> Co-Author of Apache Karaf Cookbook <http://bit.ly/1ps9rkS> Software Architect / Project Manager / Scrum Master
