Re: [jetty-users] 9.3.0 RC1 introduces dependency on Java 8?

[Silvio Bierman <sbierman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse,

Can you give any info on a potential release date? I would not mind 
going with a alpha/beta/candidate release, anything that is a proper 
build and does not require building (we do not use and have experience 
with the tools required, like maven).

Cheers,

Silvio


On 05/27/2015 07:20 PM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
> David,
>
> Yes, this is the intention for Jetty 9.3.x moving forward.  We had
> been operating under the assumption we would support Java 7 but after
> looking at what is going on in the SSL areas of the jdk with new
> features like SNI, HTTP/2 becoming a standard and requiring Java 8,
> and things like we decided to pull that trigger now.  This decision
> was also somewhat validated in that most all of our professional
> support clients had themselves already switched to Java 8 because of
> security issues alone making the decision easier for us.  We will
> continue releasing Jetty 9.2.x iterations should the need arise to
> keep Java 7 jetty users up to speed, but the adoption of Java 8 over 7
> has been dramatically different than 7 over 6...much much faster.
>
> We should have a blog out explaining more of these details sometime soon.
>
> cheers,
> Jesse
> --
> jesse mcconnell
> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Kellum <dek94@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > With the latest RC1 I'm receiving the following error if I use java 7
> > (OpenJDK 1.7.0_79, java.class.version: 51.0):
> >
> > Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
> >
> > This doesn't happen with Java 8, nor did it happen using Java 7 with RC0. Is
> > it the intent now to require Java 8 for jetty 9.3.0, upcoming release?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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