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Jenkins LTS will drop support for Java 11 in October #3916

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richardlau opened this issue Sep 23, 2024 · 10 comments
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Jenkins LTS will drop support for Java 11 in October #3916

richardlau opened this issue Sep 23, 2024 · 10 comments

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https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2024/06/11/require-java-17/

The first LTS release to require Java 17 or newer will ship at the end of October 2024.

After #3030 most of our agents are being run with Java 17.

Scanning through https://ci.nodejs.org/computer/ it looks like Java 11 is still being used on:

  • CentOS 7
  • Debian 10
  • FreeBSD 12
  • SmartOS
  • IBM i

We can drop the CentOS 7 machine.

@abmusse Is Java 17 available on IBM i?

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abmusse commented Sep 24, 2024

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Yes, Java 17 is available but it looks like its not packaged as an RPM.
I'm investigating what would be required to upgrade to Java 17.

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@nodejs/build-infra Do we want to keep Debian 10 around in the CI or just remove? It's End-of-Life as of June 2024.

(If we want to keep it, there are options for Java 17 -- both Oracle and Adoptium offer Java 17 that should work on Debian 10 AFAICT.)

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sxa commented Sep 24, 2024

Debian 10 has the same glibc level as RHEL8 so it's technically feasible to keep that going as a functional system ....
However since it's out of support I'm not sure I'd want to keep it on the network, so perhaps we should just upgrade it to a later release.

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Another reason to remove Debian 10 is that npm 10.8.3 contains an update to node-gyp that now requires Python 3.8. The packaged version of Python on Debian 10 is 3.7.3. While it might be possible to install newer Python 3 on the machine by other means, that in combination with the Java 11 issue will add more maintenance overhead to keeping this End-of-Life platform active in the CI.

Removal of Debian 10 will still leave Debian 11 and 12 in the CI, so we'll still have coverage on Debian there.

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targos commented Nov 4, 2024

On the release CI, I see only release-osuosl-centos7-arm64-1. Can we remove that builder? I see nothing in its build history.

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On the release CI, I see only release-osuosl-centos7-arm64-1. Can we remove that builder? I see nothing in its build history.

Yes, we don't use CentOS 7 anymore (from Node.js 18 onwards).

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Current status

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platform notes
CentOS 7 drop
Debian 10 drop
FreeBSD 12 Migrate to FreeBSD 13 #3593
SmartOS #3731
IBM i Requires update to IBM i 7.4 (@abmusse has requested)

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platform notes
CentOS 7 drop

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richardlau commented Nov 8, 2024

FreeBSD is done.

IBM i update: plan is for the machines to be updated to IBM i 7.4 next week. After that we (@abmusse ?) will need to update Jenkins and Ansible.

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abmusse commented Nov 8, 2024

Yes Once the machines get updated to 7.4 we will need to do some config changes to pickup Java 17.

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abmusse commented Nov 21, 2024

We now have Java 17 installed on the IBM i CI machines 🎉

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