InfoQ had an article from Sept 2020 indicating Java 11 was about 20% of production deployments and Java 8 had the rest. So release 2.x is going to be around a while.
Ralph > On Mar 13, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > The JRebel report from January shows that about 69% of Java users are using > Java 8. Java 11 is at about 36%. The only problem here is that Java 12 or > newer is 12% and Java 7 or older is 15% That totals 132% so I really have no > idea what to make of these numbers. > > Ralph > >> On Mar 13, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's fine with me. >> >> FWIW: At work, what is holding us back moving from Java 8 to 11 is >> that IBM does not support a production level Java 11 on the i/Series >> yet (EA only IIRC). >> >> Gary >> >> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 5:28 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Log4j 2.3 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 6. We have made no >>> patches to it since it was released in 2015. As I recall Java 6 was >>> already EOL on public updates by the time we moved to Java 7. As near as I >>> can tell Oracle’s extended support for Java 6 ended in December 2018. >>> Maven Central indicates about 1.7% of all log4j-api downloads are for >>> release 2.3 and prior, including the alpha and beta releases. >>> >>> Log4j 2.12.1 was the last Log4j 2 release to support Java 7. Java 7 public >>> updates ended in April 2015, premier support ended in Mar 2019, and >>> extended support ends in July 2022. Maven Central statistics show that >>> Log4j 2 1.12.1 is our 3rd most popular version of log4j-api and about 12% >>> of downloads. Of course, if is far more likely that users of Log4j 2.12.1 >>> are running Java 8 than Java 7 since the latest JRebel report indicates >>> that only 7% of Java users are using Java 7 or older. >>> >>> >>> I suspect that if I tried to do a patch release to 2.3 today it would be >>> difficult. I still have Java 6 present on my computer, but that computer >>> has probably been upgraded twice since 2.3 was released. >>> >>> I am proposing that we publish that we no longer support Java 6 or Java 7. >>> If we want to continue to support Java 7 we should at least indicate when >>> we will drop support. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Ralph >> > > >
