On 4/6/2015 3:10 PM, chillra wrote:
We are currently running Solr 3.6.1.
The release notes for Solr 4.8 state that it is verified to be compatible
with Java 8. Does this mean that older releases of Solr were not compatible,
or just that they have not be tested?
None of the bug fixes associated with the 4.8 release seem to be related to
Java 8 compatibility.
We are currently planning to upgrade to Java 8 before upgrading to Solr 5,
but if there are know incompatibilities we will need to change those plans.
Thanks, would appreciate any insights.
Solr 3.x still works with Java 5. While I don't know of anything
specific that would prevent it from working with Java 8, I have only
personally ever used 3.x with Java 6.There has been no official
testing. Java 8 did not exist when we were still making minor Solr 3.x
releases, and Java 7 had been out for less than a year when Solr 3.6.0
was released.
The best advice I can offer is to try it. Any problems are likely to
NOT be subtle ... it'll most likely either work flawlessly or not at
all. Because Solr 3.x works with Java 6, I think it is likely to work
just fine with Java 8. Hopefully there will be someone who has actually
tried it who can let you know for sure.
If you can put Java 6 on the machine as well, and use that to run Solr,
that would be safer.
Thanks,
Shawn
