Like for last year’s article about the same subject, yet another recent discussion about finally requiring Java 8 to run future versions Jenkins pushed me to gather some more factual data around it. What follows contains some opinions or statements which may not be seen as purely factual or neutral. Note that this represents by no mean the general position of the Jenkins governance board....
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