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As a plaform team trying to use Jenkins for my CI I want the OpenShift Jenkins distribution to use JDK 21 by default.

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Background (Required)

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JDK 11 is EOL in October 2024. We need to provide a version with JDK 17 before then so customers can test it.

Out of scope

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Remove Java 11 - see JKNS-410

Approach (Required)

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• Update the Jenkins docker file to install JDK-21 i the build

Dependencies

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TBD

Acceptance Criteria (Mandatory)

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• Jenkins runs with JDK 21 by default.
• Platform teams can fall back to using JDK 11.
• Backport to 4.12 release stream

Note: this story should be cloned for each Jenkins release stream we will support.

INVEST Checklist

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Design is implementable

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Done Checklist

• Code is completed, reviewed, documented and checked in
• Unit and integration test automation have been delivered and running cleanly in continuous integration/staging/canary environment
• Continuous Delivery pipeline(s) is able to proceed with new code included
• Customer facing documentation, API docs etc. are produced/updated, reviewed and published
• Acceptance criteria are met