[GUACAMOLE-636] Bump Target Java Version to 1.8

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: guacamole, guacamole-auth-cas, guacamole-auth-duo, guacamole-auth-header, guacamole-auth-jdbc, guacamole-auth-jdbc-mysql, guacamole-auth-jdbc-postgresql, guacamole-auth-jdbc-sqlserver, guacamole-auth-openid, guacamole-client, guacamole-ext
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client/pull/319#discussion_r219670482
• Assignee: Nick Couchman
• Reporter: Nick Couchman
• Created: 29/Sep/18 19:50
• Updated: 29/Sep/18 20:29
• Resolved: 29/Sep/18 20:29

Description

Per discussion in a recent pull request (see external link), this is a last-minute addition to the 1.0.0 release to bump the target Java version for everything except the guacamole-common API up to Java 1.8. The rationale is that Java 1.6 and 1.7 have both been unsupported for multiple years, and the risk of newer features and external requirements having issues with the older versions of Java is high and only going to increase. It's time.

Issue Links

• duplicates: GUACAMOLE-635 Build against and require Java 1.8