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  2. JENKINS-16554

Migrating to Jenkins 1.500 break JDK5 compatibility - UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

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    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • SunOS 5.10, JDK5

      The upgrade of the Commons Codec lib from 1.4 to 1.7 with Jenkins 1.500 break the compatibility to build with JDK5.

      The build fails with

      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [INFO] Failed to load org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException
      Bad version number in .class file
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [INFO] Trace
      java.lang.ClassFormatError: Failed to load org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException
      at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.loadClassFile(RemoteClassLoader.java:193)
      at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findClass(RemoteClassLoader.java:144)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
      ...
      Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:466)
      at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.loadClassFile(RemoteClassLoader.java:191)

      Replacing Commons Codec 1.7 with 1.6 seems to fix the problem.
      On the Commons Codec site (http://commons.apache.org/codec/) the following compatibility notes can be found:

      Codec 1.7 requires Java 1.6
      Codec 1.6 requires Java 1.5
      Codec 1.5 requires Java 1.4

      So please downgrade to Commons Codec 1.6 if possible.

          [JENKINS-16554] Migrating to Jenkins 1.500 break JDK5 compatibility - UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

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