Why is Solr still shipped with Jetty 6 / switching to Jetty 8?

[Maciej Lisiewski]

I have just noticed that Solr 3.6 still includes Jetty 6, which is no 
longer maintained.
Not no longer developed, but it has actually reached End of Life as of 
26th January 2012 ( 
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00026.html ) and 
that means no bugfixes or security patches - for almost 4 months now.

Both Jetty 7.x and 8.x are currently considered stable, there are 
multiple tickets in Jira considering upgrade to either of the two, but 
the work seems to be complete-ish only for 4.0, not for latest stable, 
that was released months after EoL announcement.

Does anyone have any experience with Solr 3.6 and Jetty 8? Will it work 
out of the box or should I expect all hell breaking loose?


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Maciej Lisiewski