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Steve commented on HADOOP-11090:
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Commenting on the possible severity of this issue --
JDK7 has been discontinued by Oracle, yet the last publicly available release
now has a day-zero vulnerability "actively being exploited by hackers".
See:
https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/july_2015_critical_patch_update
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
> [Umbrella] Support Java 8 in Hadoop
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-11090
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11090
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Mohammad Kamrul Islam
> Assignee: Mohammad Kamrul Islam
>
> Java 8 is coming quickly to various clusters. Making sure Hadoop seamlessly
> works with Java 8 is important for the Apache community.
>
> This JIRA is to track the issues/experiences encountered during Java 8
> migration. If you find a potential bug , please create a separate JIRA either
> as a sub-task or linked into this JIRA.
> If you find a Hadoop or JVM configuration tuning, you can create a JIRA as
> well. Or you can add a comment here.
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