Jenkins Upgrades To Java 8
In the next few months, Jenkins will require Java 8 as its runtime.
Back in
last November,
we discussed interesting statistics showing that Jenkins was now running Java 8
on a majority of its running instances.
Timeline
Here is how we plan to roll that baseline upgrade in the next few months.
Now: Announce the intention publicly.
April, 2017: Drop support for Java 7 in Jenkins weekly.
With the...