[tycho-user] Tycho 0.25.0 will require Java 8

["Sievers, Jan" <jan.sievers@xxxxxxx>]

just a heads up, while working on upgrading Tycho to a recent Neon milestone [1], I noticed some of the eclipse bundles Tycho uses internally have bumped their BREE to JavaSE-1.8 [2]

This means Tycho will effectively require Java 8 with the next release.
Note that you will still be able to build against/run tests using older JDKs using maven toolchains [3,4]

Regards
Jan 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=485427
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_6.xml#appendix
[3] https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#useJDK
[4] https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-surefire/tycho-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#useJDK