Hi Fokko,

I agree to remove Hadoop 2.7.3 and bump to 3.x for Iceberg 2.0.0.

If we want to be based on Java 11+ (17 would be good imho), we have to
check the dependencies. I'm not sure all of our dependencies support
JDK17 today.

Regards
JB

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:09 AM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to discuss adding the Hadoop upgrade to the list after moving to 
> Iceberg 2.0. We still compile against Hadoop 2.7.3 to ensure we support as 
> many users as possible. Hadoop 2.7.3 was released August 2016 and is not 
> maintained anymore for a long time.
>
> My main reason for doing the upgrade is that on the Parquet MR project, I've 
> been pushing back the Hadoop upgrade to ensure compatibility with Iceberg. 
> However, at some point, we have to pull the trigger here. This will simplify 
> things on the Parquet side and avoid having to check if the Java API Exists 
> and such.
>
> Since Hadoop 3.3+ officially supports Java 11, I would suggest dropping 
> everything below that. I wanted to check on the mailing list if there are any 
> thoughts and or concerns.
>
> Kind regards,
> Fokko
>
>

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