update from 4.7.7 to 4.8.5

[Kurt_Gatringer1]

Hi

I’m planning to update my WSE ver 4.7.7 running on AWS EC2 (byol) on a c3-2xlarge instance WSE 4.8.5.

I am aware that the new version of WSE requires OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4 to work.

Because I was uncertain on how to install the new version of Java, I reached out for some technical help and was told that my OS is too old and that JRE 9 cannot be installed and therefore my instance cannot be upgraded

I have been running this instance in a production environment for many years and have performed many updates since 4,.4.0 versions without issues

It would cause my a lot of consternation and grief if I were to have to abandon this server and have to start from scratch as it is configured for many vHosts and many custom settings

Is it possible that the advice I was given is incorrect ?

I would appreciate receiving your advice

Thanks

Anne-Marie

[Karel_Boek]

It’s indeed possible that your OS is too old to use OpenJDK9. What OS version do you have? (in case of Linux you can check with “sudo lsb_release -a” or check the os_release file in the /etc folder)

[Kurt_Gatringer1]

Hi Kabel,

Thanks again for your reply

I guess i’ll have to bite the bullet and migrate to a EC2 4,8 WSE instance then

Best
Anne-Marie

[Karel_Boek]

Indeed, Amazon Linux 2018.03 supports OpenJDK 8 as the highest version and (long-term) support for 2018.03 stopped in June this year. See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/re-affirming-long-term-support-for-java-in-amazon-linux/

So it’s highly recommended that you migrate to a new Amazon Linux 2 machine with support for OpenJDK 9. If you need help with that; you may post a message in the “Find A Consultant” forums: https://www.wowza.com/community/spaces/26/find-a-consultant.html

[Kurt_Gatringer1]

Hi Karel

Thanks for your reply

This is the info in the os_release file:

NAME=“Amazon Linux AMI”

VERSION=“2018.03”

ID=“amzn”

ID_LIKE=“rhel fedora”

VERSION_ID=“2018.03”

PRETTY_NAME=“Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03”

ANSI_COLOR=“0;33”

CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2018.03:ga”

HOME_URL=“http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/”

Anne-Marie