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Bug 494709

Summary:	Packages download page recommends Java 7
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Torkild Resheim <torkildr>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eric.poirier, mknauer
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Torkild Resheim

2016-05-27 03:03:32 EDT

On the "Packages" download page there is this text: "You will need a Java runtime environment (JRE) to use Eclipse (Java SE 7 or greater is recommended)." I believe Mylyn is part of many of these packages and most if not all Mylyn projects now require Java 8.

Comment 1 Eric Poirier

2016-06-01 14:55:15 EDT

Hi Torkild,

Thanks for reporting this bug. This will get tackled along with the new layout of the downloads page.

I'll keep you posted when this change is applied.

Comment 2 Torkild Resheim

2016-06-01 15:13:43 EDT

Thanks Eric,

According to Lars (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=493809#c70), Eclipse Platform 4.6 also requires Java 8. So changing the recommendation is valid for all packages.

Comment 3 Markus Knauer

2016-06-10 05:33:09 EDT

In fact, EPP Neon packages won't even start on a JVM < 1.8.
See bug 481997 for details.

Comment 4 Eric Poirier

2016-06-13 13:49:37 EDT

Hi Torkild,

This is now fixed on the live site.

Thanks for opening this bug.

Cheers!