Looking through jira. I dont see a plan as such. But I am all in for the change. However, the changes will be backward incompatible and will need to be done on a major release like 1.9 as you mention. Also, the hadoop-client[1] version is 2.7.3 and if we are to bump that up to 3.X we will need to move the java to 1.8 since that is a requirement for hadoop3[2].
IMO, we should move the compile to 1.7 for the releases going forward for 1.8 and 1.9.0 as well as look at bumping the hadoop-client to 3 so that we are ready for the upstream hadoop-3 release. [1]https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/java/pom.xml#L46 [2]http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.0-alpha1/ S -Suraj Acharya On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Gabor Szadovszky <ga...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Are we planning to move to a newer jdk in the next major release 1.9.0? > To be more precise: > - Upgrading build jdk from 7 to 8? > - Upgrading source/target version from 1.6 to 1.7 or 1.8? > > Thanks a lot, > Gabor >
