Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

Hi :)
Back in 2011, the first several versions of Java 1.7xxxx had compatibility
issues with lots of software including LibreOffice.  So that was around LO
3.4.3 and earlier.

Java 1.7.0_0, Java 1.7.0_1, Java 1.7.0_2, Java 1.7.0_3 and i think Java
1.7.0_4 (maybe even 5 too) were all compromised before release date which
was particularly bad because 1.6.xx created serious problems on some
platforms.  Through intense testing and discussions on this list we found
that around 1.6.xx24 and onwards there were hefty slow-downs whereas
1.6xx21 let LO run quite quickly.  I can't remember exactly which version
was found to be optimal.

While we were waiting for 1.7.xx to become safe enough to use one in their
earlier branch, a 1.6xx29(?) was suddenly fast again on Windows (and i
think Linux too) but had horrendous malware issues on Macs.  Macs were
vulnerable to only 2 malware threats that entire year and at least 1 of
those was due to Java 1.6xx.  It was serious enough that press articles
reported that many people were starting to have to run 'anti-virus' on Macs
and many articles promised it was the end of Macs security (purportedly
'security through obscurity') and suggested that Macs would henceforth have
the same problem Windows has.  It was then at least 1-2 years before Macs
had any other malware issues despite continuing rapid growth of
market-share.


It doesn't seem to have been such a serious issue since then but most times
when people have had problems with Java, or problems with LO crashing, it
has been solved by people on this mailing list suggesting to switch off
Java and consider removing it.

We don't seem to need to track specific versions of Java quite as closely
as we once did.  When we did track it the information outside of this
mailing list was abysmal.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 1 November 2014 09:07, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 31/10/2014 21:12, Andreas Säger a écrit :
>
> > Huh? Really? Which issue number was that? I can't believe that any LO
> > version had been released with such a show stopper issue.
>
> Well, please reconsider your statement in light of the requirement for
> LibreOffice 4.3.3 on OSX Yosemite and current master 440 alpha to use an
> end of life Apple Java 6, in addition to Java 1.8, to remain even
> remotely stable with the default bundled extensions that require Java.
>
> The Java 1.8 invocation problem is Oracle's bug (known, slated for fix
> in Java 9), and the fact that on OSX LibreOffice bundles extensions
> requiring Java is the LibreOffice projects responsibility.
>
> FWIW :
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74877
>
>
> Alex
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