> On 7 Oct 2015, at 17:23, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > We've been supporting JDK8 as a runtime for CDH5 for a while now (meaning > the full stack including HBase), so I agree that we're good there. >
with Kerberos on? > I'm against dropping JDK7 support though in branch-2. +1. We're only talking about dependencies here > Even bumping > dependency versions scares me, since it often leads to downstream pain. Any > comment about the compatibility of said bump? We need to have very high > confidence if it's targeted for branch-2. > Which is why we need to test things downstream with the bumped jersey/grizzly libs before making any commitment to branch-2.