In the next day or two, GeoTools, GeoWebCache, and GeoServer master will switch to using Java 8.
As the first step, I have updated all ares Jenkins master jobs to use Oracle JDK 8 and started test builds (with the projects still using Maven source/target 1.7). Some master builds were already on Oracle JDK 8. I have kicked all the master builds and CITE tests.
The next steps will be to switch GeoServer, GeoWebCache, and GeoTools to Java 8, in that order.
I have not yet touched the release jobs but intend to make sure that they default to Oracle JDK 8.
Kind regards,
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand