Comment 88 for bug 1368094

As noted by several other people already, Jenkins releases which are essential for security, performance and feature-availability reasons require Java 8. Since Ubuntu 14.04LTS is still a current, supported release it's difficult to understand how a core component of a server platform like Java would lag behind for such a long time.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 16 is on our roadmap, but it's non-trivial. In the interim, I have no defensible reason to offer people who are legitimately concerned about the delay in our plans to upgrade Jenkins.