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JDK8 has significant performance and stability improvements, in particular around the g1gc collector we are using with Cassandra for its capability to deal with larger heaps. For this reason, we have started to evaluate jdk8 on restbase1004 and, since today, on restbase1005. This is using an older backport package from sid which is still in our repository. For long-term production use this would need to be updated, which is tracked in T104887.