Ok, I understand that. I wasn’t aware that so may people are still using Java 
8. My students just ask me every time they want to contribute to my Jenkins 
plugins why they still need to use that old Java version ;-)

> Am 04.12.2020 um 08:34 schrieb Tim Jacomb <timjaco...@gmail.com>:
> 
> I would be definitely +1 for switching defaults and encouraging people to use 
> jdk11
> 
> And not against updating the minimum version, people will move when they have 
> to.
> 

The problem is that Oracle will provide support until 2030, that means nobody 
will be forced in the near future…

> At my previous work we moved from 7 to 8 when we had to and it was no issue...
> 
> We’ve been on 11 for awhile here...
> 
> Java 8 is 6 years older at this point, yes a lots been backported but that 
> doesn’t mean we should stay at it forever
> 
> Sonarqube recently moved to require java 11 as an example of one development 
> tool that has gone there before us
> 
> Thanks
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 00:33, Oleg Nenashev <o.v.nenas...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:o.v.nenas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Yes, the Java 11 adoption is still very low. It was around 30% last time I 
> have seen the stats. Around 60% of users still run Java 8. With such a state 
> it does not make sense to drop the Java 8 compatibility without really 
> serious reasons which we IMHO do not have.
> 
> On a separate note, a few weeks ago we discussed moving to Java 11 in the 
> default container tags (`latest`, `stable` and so on). Even in this case we 
> were far from having a consensus, because it would require a coordinate 
> update of agents and controllers by many Jenkins users.
> 
> BR, Oleg
> 
> On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 6:40:01 PM UTC+1 Mark Waite wrote:
> There are not.  Considering the relatively low adoption rate of Java 11, I'd 
> personally resist a move to make Java 11 the baseline for quite a while 
> unless there were some way to preserve and assure that Java 8 continues to 
> work as expected even with Java 11 as the baseline.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:57 AM Ullrich Hafner <ullrich...@gmail.com <>> wrote:
> Are there already plans to move the Java baseline from Java 8 to Java 11 in 
> the near future in Jenkins core?     
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