This ticket tracks the promise made in http://jenkins-ci.org/content/good-bye-java6 that we are bumping up core requirements from Java6 to Java7.
- depends on
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                    JENKINS-28438 OS X installation - force use of Java 7 or 8 -         
- Resolved
 
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                    JENKINS-28231 Java Version hard coded to Java6 -         
- Resolved
 
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- is blocking
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                    JENKINS-27624 Upgrade minimum require Java version from 7 to 8 -         
- Resolved
 
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- is duplicated by
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                    JENKINS-28197 Jenkins requires Java5 or later, but you are running 1.5.0_07-b03 -         
- Resolved
 
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                    JENKINS-27623 Upgrade minimum require Java version from 6 to 7 -         
- Resolved
 
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- is related to
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                    JENKINS-25272 remoting-2.46.jar breaks JDK 5 Maven builds -         
- Resolved
 
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