For the 2014-04-02 meeting as the Change Proposal was announced on devel-announce list on 2014-03-21.
Make Java 8 (provided by OpenJDK 8 which is java-1.8.0-openjdk) the default Java runtime. The current default Java runtime (Java 7, provided by OpenJDK 7, java-1.7.0-openjdk) will be obsoleted and removed.
This is essentially an upgrade to the latest Java and OpenJDK version.
Agreed on 2014-04-02 FESCo meeting: Java 8 change accepted (8+1 0-1)
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