Java 11 is the recommended version to run Jenkins on

[s.p...@gmail.com]

After I upgraded Jenkins to 2.303.2, I'm seeing an alert as below. J. I think Java 11 is OpenJDK and we are using java 1.8.0_301. Is Java 1.8 no longer supported ? Any inputs are really appreciated. TIA

"Java11 is the recommended version to run Jenkins on; please consider upgrading."

[Mark Waite]

Jenkins continues to support Java 8.  We recommend Java 11.

See https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2021/08/17/docker-images-use-jdk-11-by-default/ for more details on the rationale for that transition.

[Burns, Daniel]

Somewhere it states that not all plug-ins support Java 11 also.

 

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[Mark Waite]

Good point.  More details on the transition to Java 11 are included in the 2.303.1 upgrade guide.  The upgrade guide includes a list of plugins known to be incompatible with Java 11.

[s.p...@gmail.com]

Thank you Mark!

[Matt Wilson]

I haven't tried switching yet.  Any concerns about switching to 11 and then rolling back to 8 if there is a problem?  Guessing no, but thought I'd ask...