FWIW: in Bigtop we've made the switch to JDK7 for the Bigtop 0.8.0 release across the board. No major issues so far.
Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > [Apologies for the wide distribution.] > > Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, > > We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this year. > > As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now considering > making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* release of Apache Hadoop > which supports JDK6. This means, from hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we will not > support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start relying on JDK7-specific apis. > > Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the trigger > without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for you feedback. > > Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem to be > at risk from this too. > > thanks, > Arun > > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You.
