Mukund and I have built a release candidate (RC1) for Hadoop-Thirdparty 1.3.0.
The RC is available at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-thirdparty-1.3.0-RC1/ The git tag is release-1.3.0-RC1, commit 0fd62903b071b5186f31b7030ce42e1c00f6bb6a The maven artifacts are staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1420/ We've already been using the snapshot artifacts on hadoop trunk for the protobuf update for a while, so we know that bit seems good. Once this release is out we can adopt it in the 3.4.1 release (for better java 8 compatibility as well as updates). I have created a hadoop PR for the switch https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/7007 This also updates the (transitive) binary license. The latest patch also tries to update docker to the same version of protoc -which hasn't been done until now. Let's see what happens. Please try the release and vote. The vote will run for 5 days. Here is my vote: +1 (binding)
