Support for JDK 8?

[Robert Krüger]

Hi,

I did not find any info in the archive. Every once in a while I try
starting my Jenkins installation (Mac) using the latest Oracle JDK 8
Previews (including the first release candidate) and get errors with
weird stacktraces in some cases when starting, in others when using
the web interface. Does it make sense to post this here or is JDK 8
not supported as a runtime for Jenkins yet?

Thanks,

Robert

[Mark Waite]

Jenkins does not support JDK 8.

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[Robert Krüger]

OK, thanks for the clarification! Then I'll stop testing until I read
here that it does :-).

[Baptiste Mathus]

Hi all,

Sorry for excavating an old thread. I thought I'd be better for future reference since this thread is also one of the first foundable through archive/google.

Realizing we still run our Jenkins server with Java 6, I started thinking about running it with JDK7 or JDK8.

From this thread in february, it was still unsupported. But I seem to remember other threads talking about it (and in the meantime java 8 went GA).

Anyway, reading https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Meet+Jenkins : 
    "you need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or later. "

So, JDK8 is supposedly supported.

Is this page still up-to-date? If not, or if there're specifics like the first Jenkins version to support Java 8 or so, would we be able to add those informations?

Thanks for the heads up.

PS: btw, this link on SO also comes in the first results so I suppose it would also be good to add a link there in the comment or to a reference page for Jenkins JDK support

Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net
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[Baptiste Mathus]

FWIW, answering myself for reference:

We're now running successfully with JDK8 Jenkins 1.593 on a supposedly mid-size Jenkins installation (~15/20 slaves, ~600 actives jobs, rhel, windows, aix).

HTH

Cheers