Blog post announcing deprecation of the JDK 7 installer

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+layout: posts
+title: JDK7 deprecation
+---
+
+The Bazel team has been maintaining a separate, stripped-down build of Bazel
+that runs with JDK 7. The 0.5.1 release will no longer provide this special
+version.
+
+To address the problem of JDK 8 not being available on some machines, starting
+with version 0.5.0, our installer will embed a JDK by default.
+
+If you have any concerns, please reach out to
+[bazel-discuss@googlegroups.com](mailto:bazel-discuss@googlegroups.com).
+
+__Recap:__
+
+__0.5.0__:
+
+  * `bazel-0.5.0-installer.sh`: default version, with embedded JDK.
+  * `bazel-0.5.0-without-jdk-installer.sh`: version without embedded JDK.
+  * `bazel-0.5.0-jdk7-installer.sh`: last release compatible with JDK 7.
+
+__0.5.1__:
+
+  * `bazel-0.5.1-installer.sh`: default version, with embedded JDK.
+  * `bazel-0.5.1-without-jdk-installer.sh`: version without embedded JDK.
+
+__Migration path:__
+
+If you are currently using the Bazel with JDK 7, then starting with version
+0.5.0 you must start using the default installer.
+
+If you are currently using the default installer and do not want to use a
+version with embedded JDK, then use the `-without-jdk` version.
+
+__Note:__
+
+Homebrew and debian packages do not contain the embedded JDK. This change only
+affects the shell installers.
+
+__Thanks:__
+
+Thanks everybody for bearing with all the JDK 7 related issues, including the
+Java team at Google, in particular
+[Liam Miller-Cushon](https://github.com/cushon).
+
+Special thanks to [Philipp Wollermann](https://github.com/philwo) who made this
+new installer possible.
+
+