The Apache Storm community is pleased to announce that version 2.8.0 has been released and is available from the downloads page . This release includes new features as well as a number of code improvements, bug fixes and library updates. We encourage users of previous versions to upgrade to this latest release. Please note that starting with this release, the minimum JRE version to run Apache Storm is 17. Thanks Special thanks are due to all those who have contributed to Apache Storm – whether through direct code contributions, documentation, bug reports, or helping other users on the mailing lists. Your efforts are much appreciated. Changes in this Release - Storm 2.8.0 JIRA issues addressed in the 2.8.0 release of Storm. Documentation for this release is available at the Apache Storm project site . Bug [ STORM-3693 ] - TimeOut ticks should be addressed to Executor instead of being addressed to a task or broadcasted. [ STORM-4148 ] - Storm UI throwing error on Component page [ STORM-4149 ] - Decode ComponentId to avoid UI throwing errors [ STORM-4154 ] - Nimbus down following topology deployment Task [ STORM-4131 ] - Update log4j2 to a non-borked version [ STORM-4132 ] - Remove “storm-hive” [ STORM-4133 ] - Raise Minimum JRE Level to 17 Dependency upgrade [ STORM-4134 ] - log4j2 2.24.3 [ STORM-4135 ] - Commons IO 2.18.0 [ STORM-4136 ] - Dropwizard 4.0.11 [ STORM-4137 ] - Metrics 4.2.29 [ STORM-4138 ] - Jackson 2.18.2 [ STORM-4139 ] - Prometheus 1.3.5 [ STORM-4141 ] - ByteBuddy 1.15.11 [ STORM-4144 ] - slf4j2 2.0.16 [ STORM-4145 ] - netty 4.1.116 [ STORM-4146 ] - guava 33.4.0-jre [ STORM-4147 ] - checker-qual 3.48.4 [ STORM-4150 ] - commons codec 1.17.2 [ STORM-4151 ] - Jersey 3.1.10 [ STORM-4152 ] - commons-csv 1.13.0 [ STORM-4153 ] - rocksdb jni 9.8.4