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    Improvement 
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    Resolution: Fixed
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    Critical 
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    None
Changing minimal JDK requirement has huge impact for most users as both jenkins master and slave need to be upgraded. As JDK 7 will be EOL soon, it seems a better choice to me to directly move to Java 8
- users to discover this compatibility break will only have to upgrade one
- impact on jenkins development is far more exciting.
also see JENKINS-27623
- depends on
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                    JENKINS-25333 Jenkins 1.586 not starting up using Java8 -         
- Resolved
 
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                    JENKINS-28120 Jenkins core to require Java7 -         
- Resolved
 
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                    JENKINS-20679 Define manifest header in the jpi file to capture minimum Java requirement -         
- Closed
 
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                    JENKINS-42709 Unable to build Jenkins with Java 8 set as target version -         
- Resolved
 
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