On 2/10/2015 1:03 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > at the end of April Java 1.7 will be obsoleted, and Oracle will stop > updating it. > > Is it safe to run Tomcat7 / Solr 4.10 on Java 1.8? Did anyone tried it > already?
Yes, we know that Java 8 works just fine with newer Solr 4.x releases, and the unreleased version 5. Oracle Java is preferred, and the latest available release is strongly recommended. The development branch for Lucene/Solr 6.0 *requires* Java 8. Thanks, Shawn