Sounds ok to be, but one small question; if a user is still running older versions, can they downgrade JNA or would this break? Basically, do our defaults/testing no longer support or would our source no longer be compatible?
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:11 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > CASSANDRA-16212 is about to be committed to trunk, upgrading JNA from 4.2.2 > to 5.6.0. > > This will mean that Cassandra 4.0 requires a glibc-2.7 or greater system. > > Consequences of this will be the following distributions will no longer be > supported > - Centos 5 (and earlier), (EOL was 2017-03-31), > - Debian 4 Etch (and earlier), (EOL was 2010-02-15) > - Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (and earlier), (EOL was 2009-04-18) > > Given the EOL dates to those distributions I don't see this being a > problem, but am raising it for visibility just in case. Speak up if there's > objections. It will be listed in NEWS.txt > > regards, > Mick >
