[jira] [Commented] (FLUME-2945) Bump java target version to 1.8

["Denes Arvay (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Denes Arvay commented on FLUME-2945:
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Hi [~liorze], I think this patch is ready to go. I'm going to do a final review and if nobody has any concerns I'll commit it.

> 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: 1.8.0
>            Reporter: Lior Zeno
>            Assignee: Lior Zeno
>             Fix For: 1.8.0
>
>         Attachments: FLUME-2945-0.patch
>
>
> 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
> The attached patch was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with openjdk version "1.8.0_91".
> All unit tests, except for the known flaky ones, successfully passed.



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