Is it necessary to remove the download links?
I would suggest adding text saying "we cannot help if you have any issues
with these versions, but if you need them, they are here".
Just to clarify to whoever is interested, that if you have to (for whatever
reason) use Java 6, then use Log4j 2.3; and
This is a vote to announce Log4j 2 will no longer support Java 6 or Java 7. We
will remove the download links for Log4j 2.3 and 2.12.1 from the web site and
future release announcements. Of course, both will continue to be available
from the distribution archives and Maven Central, and every pri
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
Good call, pretty reasonable. I agree with stopping the support for Java 6
and 7.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:28 PM Ralph Goers
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 o
