Re: Cassandra 4.0 dropping support for older distributions Centos 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu 7.10

2020-11-13 Thread Scott Andreas
Thanks for flagging this, Mick! No concern from me as all EOL dates for these distributions have long passed and agreed that a NEWS entry is a good way to surface to users. From: Mick Semb Wever Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:09 PM To: dev@cassandra.

Re: Cassandra 4.0 dropping support for older distributions Centos 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu 7.10

2020-11-13 Thread Mick Semb Wever
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? > The patch for CASSANDRA-16212 does not change the use of JNA,

Re: Cassandra 4.0 dropping support for older distributions Centos 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu 7.10

2020-11-13 Thread David Capwell
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 wrote: > CASSANDRA-1

Cassandra 4.0 dropping support for older distributions Centos 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu 7.10

2020-11-13 Thread Mick Semb Wever
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), -