> I dunno. I'd suggest that we release the 1.7 compatibility first, and see what happens. Maybe even that might prove controversial, although I doubt it.

Actually, what about having a release with both 1.7 and 1.8-compatible builds?

> In any case, what's the biggest benefit that you see in moving to Java 8? Is it new language features, or security, or something else?

Language features.