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• 2026-10-13

  Jenkins requires Java 21. What happens to your AIX 7.1 and RHEL 6 build hosts?

  Jenkins needs Java 21 on the controller and on every agent. AIX 7.1, Solaris and HP-UX cannot run it, so their teams stay on Jenkins 2.346.3. Where each Jenkins version is locked, the highest Java each legacy platform can run, with sources, and Agent8: a Jenkins agent that runs on Java 8.