While it sounds like a topic for a different discussion (or list@), do you think it would be too crazy to skip JDK7 completely and just go to JDK8 directly? I think downstream components like HBase, Spark and so on would be a huge driving factor to make the same change in Hadoop and other parts of the ecosystem.
Thoughts? Cos On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:23AM, Devaraj Das wrote: > I think we are good on HBase side, at least on the 1.x+ branches. We > are dropping support for 1.6 from HBase-1.0 onwards. > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > [Apologies for the wide distribution.] > > > > Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, > > > > We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this year. > > > > As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now considering > > making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* release of Apache > > Hadoop which supports JDK6. This means, from hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we will > > not support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start relying on JDK7-specific apis. > > > > Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the trigger > > without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for you feedback. > > > > Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem to be > > at risk from this too. > > > > thanks, > > Arun > > > > > > -- > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > > and delete it from your system. Thank You. > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You.
