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  1. Flume
  2. FLUME-2945

Bump java target version to 1.8

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.8.0
    • 1.8.0
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      We should move to Java 8 as a minimum requirement.

      1. Java 7 is EOL'ed http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.
      2. Many projects are adopting java 8 as a minimum requirement, for instance:

      The attached patch was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with openjdk version "1.8.0_91".
      All unit tests, except for the known flaky ones, successfully passed.

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        Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. FLUME-2919 Upgrade the Solr version to 6.0.1

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