According to Adopt OpenJDK[1], version 8 will be supported until at least May 2026, while Java 11 will be supported until at least October 2024. That obviously doesn't affect Java 7, but it may affect any plans as to when Java 8 will be dropped.
-Robert Middleton [1]: https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 7:48 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 7:20 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > I'm fine with that. We have users that are cranking along on Java 8 > set ups, that's not going to change for a while I guess ... until the > next panic over licensing, EOL, or somesuch. > > Gary > > > > > 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 > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
