I'm in favor of dropping support for java 6 and 7 and have little reason to believe anyone still using older releases is also taking library upgrades.
-Carter On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, at 21:15, Robert Middleton wrote: > 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 > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
