+1
this will make backporting much easier.

Regards,
Da

> On Mar 28, 2019, at 12:46 PM, John Zhuge <john.zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:33 PM Steve Loughran (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Steve Loughran created HADOOP-16219:
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 
>>             Summary: Hadoop branch-2 to set java language version to 1.8
>>                 Key: HADOOP-16219
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16219
>>             Project: Hadoop Common
>>          Issue Type: Improvement
>>          Components: build
>>    Affects Versions: 2.10.0
>>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>> 
>> 
>> Java 7 is long EOL; having branch-2 require it is simply making the
>> release process a pain (we aren't building, testing, or releasing on java 7
>> JVMs any more, are we?).
>> 
>> Staying on java 7 complicates backporting, JAR updates for CVEs (hello
>> Guava!) &c are becoming impossible.
>> 
>> Proposed: increment javac.version = 1.8
>> 
>> 
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