Increase minimum JRE version to 1.8 #805
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Somehow we were building for Android at 1.8 already anyway.
Common to my statement on #804, I propose releasing this with our next version
1.2
patch and, as such, am treating this change as foundational to my fix for #801.I will be very surprised if we have any customers still building against JDK 1.7 and/or targeting JRE 1.7 specifically. If there are any, this will break at build time for them so does not represent a runtime risk, so I am happy to take on the support burden of assisting those customers if this becomes an issue for them.
FYI, @paddybyers @stmoreau