0.9.7 SP2 requires JRE 6 on MAC OSX El Capitan

[soswow]

Here is what I see when I start it:

I see it says

<key>JVMVersion</key>
<string>1.6+</string>

But it doesn't help much seems like.

(I tried to change it manually to 1.8+. Didn't help.
I will follow the instruction and install legacy runtime just to make it work.

[alexwhittemore]

I'm also curious about why this is the case, if the changelog indicated compatibility with 1.7 and 1.8 in a couple of updates.

[supersmart-at]

I had same issue here - for me it was fine following this advice of #216 posted by @ChrisHughes showing workaround for the now missing gatekeeper option to trust "anyone".
OLS now running on mac os sierra

[jawi]

The problem is that the image isn't signed by a developer that is recognised by OSX: you need to pay some serious money to get a signing certificate from Apple.

There's a workaround described in the 2nd question of the OLS FAQ: https://github.com/jawi/ols/wiki/FAQ#Software. Basically, you've to temporarily disable the gatekeeper when running the OLS client for the first time. After this, you can enable the gatekeeper again...

[sgentle]

I was able to get around this by just running Java directly:

cd /Applications/LogicSniffer.app/Contents/Resources/Java/
java -cp 'bin/org.apache.felix.main-4.4.1.jar:bin/runner-1.1.1.jar' -Xmx1024m -Dnl.lxtreme.ols.bundle.dir=plugins nl.lxtreme.ols.runner.Runner