Master running Java7 slaves running Java8?

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I've started getting notices on my Windows 7 slave machines that Java7 is "not the latest release." When clicking the icon in the system tray it wants me to upgrade to Java8. I have no problem ignoring these little messages, but was wondering if there would be any issues if the master is running Java7 and the slaves were running Java8. I seem to remember (though I can't find it now) some issues relating to Java8 with Jenkins, so I just wanted to check to see.

Thanks,

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[Mark Waite]

I have a master running Java 7 (Ubuntu 14.04) with Windows slaves running Java 8 and have not detected any issues with that configuration.  My Windows machines include a Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64, and Windows Home Server 2011.

The Windows machines have both Java 7 and Java 8 installed so that I can specify which JDK should be used for a specific job.  The "System Information" for the machines shows that they are running Java 8 as their java.home.

Mark Waite

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Thanks!

Mark Waite

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Mark,

Thanks for the info! Much appreciated!

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[felix schwitzer]

FYI:

Today I tried to connect my Win7-Java8 slave with my master (ubuntu1404 with OpenJDK7) and
I was not able to connect, the slave gave an NPE-exception.
After upgrading my java8 (Oracle), reconnecting worked fine.
So there may be some issues, but it looks to me that there are some Java8-releases not
working correct. If I remember right Java8-36 did not work, but Java8-37 did)

regards
Felix

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I tried moving to Java8 on one machine and found I had to update the jenkins-slave.xml file because it had the full path to java.exe. Other than that, it seems to be going smoothly.

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