# Elasticsearch support for Java 1.8?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 17, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155 "2014-06-17T13:19:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Neal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Neal)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155/1 "2014-06-17T13:19:22Z")
Hi,
I saw this blog post from April stating java 1.7u55 as being safe for
Elasticsearch, but I didn't see anything about Java 1.8 support. Just
wondering if it was 🙂
> **[Java 1.7u55 is Safe for Use With Elasticsearch
| Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/blog/java-1-7u55-safe-use-elasticsearch-lucene)**
>
> This post was co-authored with Robert Muir.Apache Lucene™'s extensive randomized tests are so stressful that they also happily serve as strong test cases for the JVM itself.Over time, L...
Thanks!
Chris
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155/3 "2014-06-17T14:01:48Z")
Scripting issues were due to MVEL, but with MVEL 2.2.0.Final, this has been
fixed in ES.
So yes, you can run ES on Java 8 JVM.
Jörg
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Georgi Ivanov [georgi.r.ivanov@gmail.com](mailto:georgi.r.ivanov@gmail.com)
wrote:
> As far as I know , ES will work just fine with java 1.8,
> except script support.
>
> I read some articles on the Internet that scripting support is broken with
> java 1.8
>
> But I would love to hear someone who actually tried 🙂
>
> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 3:19:37 PM UTC+2, Chris Neal wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw this blog post from April stating java 1.7u55 as being safe for
> > Elasticsearch, but I didn't see anything about Java 1.8 support. Just
> > wondering if it was 🙂
> >
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/java-1-7u55-safe-use-)
> > elasticsearch-lucene/
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Chris
>
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Neal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Neal)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155/4 "2014-06-17T14:17:14Z")
Thanks very much guys!
Chris
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:01 AM, [joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com) \<
[joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> Scripting issues were due to MVEL, but with MVEL 2.2.0.Final, this has
> been fixed in ES.
>
> So yes, you can run ES on Java 8 JVM.
>
> Jörg
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Georgi Ivanov [georgi.r.ivanov@gmail.com](mailto:georgi.r.ivanov@gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > As far as I know , ES will work just fine with java 1.8,
> > except script support.
> >
> > I read some articles on the Internet that scripting support is broken
> > with java 1.8
> >
> > But I would love to hear someone who actually tried 🙂
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 3:19:37 PM UTC+2, Chris Neal wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I saw this blog post from April stating java 1.7u55 as being safe for
> > > Elasticsearch, but I didn't see anything about Java 1.8 support. Just
> > > wondering if it was 🙂
> > >
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/java-1-7u55-safe-use-)
> > > elasticsearch-lucene/
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Chris
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-support-for-java-1-8/18155/5 "2017-07-06T01:21:49Z")