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[Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for this... Java 8 has nice language features as well as excellent
runtime JVM improvements
DHIS2 community will benefit a lot from this move.

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Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA

On 25 February 2015 at 08:11, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Java 7 reaches end of life on April 2017 and will not receive free updates
> beyond that.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
>
> Java 8 also comes with a range of new features we would like to take
> advantage of.
>
> https://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-java-8/
>
> As a result we will start using Java 8 from DHIS 2.20. (The next release
> is 2.19). This means that to deploy 2.20 you will have to update the Java
> SDK on your server to Java 8. Java 8 is already available for Linux,
> Windows and Mac OS X.
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
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