The next version 3.2 of JMeter will drop support for java 7 and will require java 8. This was discussed on the mailing list.
Date: Thu Nov 24 20:02:11 2016 New Revision: 1771212 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1771212&view=rev Log: Drop support for java 7. Bugzilla Id: 60415 Modified: jmeter/trunk/README.md jmeter/trunk/build.xml jmeter/trunk/xdocs/download_jmeter.xml jmeter/trunk/xdocs/overview.html jmeter/trunk/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml jmeter/trunk/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml Date: Thu Nov 24 20:02:49 2016 New Revision: 1771213 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1771213&view=rev Log: Drop java 7 from travis, too. Bugzilla Id: 60415 Modified: jmeter/trunk/.travis.yml I also changed the buildbot config to use java 8.
Date: Tue Nov 29 19:57:21 2016 New Revision: 1771950 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1771950&view=rev Log: Require jdk 8+ for generating docs-api. Bugzilla Id: 60415 Modified: jmeter/trunk/build.xml
Date: Tue Dec 27 16:17:11 2016 New Revision: 1776167 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1776167&view=rev Log: Minimal java version is 1.8.0 Modified: jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.bat jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.sh
Author: pmouawad Date: Fri Dec 30 21:55:28 2016 New Revision: 1776643 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1776643&view=rev Log: Bug 60415 - Drop Java 7 support Bugzilla Id: 60415 Modified: jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter
Author: pmouawad Date: Tue Jan 24 20:17:10 2017 New Revision: 1780108 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1780108&view=rev Log: Bug 60415 - Drop Java 7 support Force java.security.egd as per mailing list discussion http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jmeter-dev/201701.mbox/%3C0016ccc5-2a8a-b909-a72d-b4593ad9e00c%40kippdata.de%3E Bugzilla Id: 60415 Modified: jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.bat jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
It looks like all work is done for the upgrade to java 8. So I close this bug.
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/4176