Hey everyone, I've been working on upgrading our Java version of protobuf to protobuf 4 (also needed to keep many other dependencies up to date). As part of this, I've found that the AWS v1 KinesisIO [1] is incompatible with protobuf 4 (on upgrade, tests now hang [2]). Other v1 libraries likely are incompatible as well.
These IOs have been deprecated since Beam 2.41.0 (July 2022), with the message "You are using a deprecated IO for DynamoDB. Please migrate to module 'org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-io-amazon-web-services2'." [3], and the new libraries have been recommended for longer than that. The underlying libraries are in maintenance mode, with EOL scheduled for the end of next year [4]. Rather than trying to find a workaround to patch these libraries, I'd like to remove them in favor of the non-deprecated libraries right after next week's release cut. Are there any objections to this approach? If I don't hear any objections, I will proceed with this approach next week (draft PR [5]). Thanks, Danny [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kinesis [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/12263616473/job/34215568385?pr=33192 [3] https://github.com/apache/beam/commit/f5435c0575870062f39575271c0f483117908403 [4] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-end-of-support-for-aws-sdk-for-java-v1-x-on-december-31-2025/
