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Many other open-source projects have taken the leap already. Examples are Apache Cassandra, Apache Lucene, Apache Storm, Akka, Apache Hadoop 3, Jetty, Guava, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Jenkins and many others. Even Android will support Java 8 in the next version (although it will take a while before most phones will use that version sadly). This reduces (but does not eliminate) the chance that we would be the first project that would cause a user to consider a Java upgrade.
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