Created the JIRA AVRO-2043 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2043> to track this. Feel free to add anything I've missed.
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Ryan Blue <rb...@netflix.com.invalid> wrote: > Yeah, lets stick with 2.7.x instead of 3.x for now. > > I was talking about the 1.9 release line for updating the JDK version. I > agree we shouldn't move 1.8 or 1.7. > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > if we're talking about for the 1.9 release line, then I'm +1 on > > jumping to jdk8. I would prefer not to change the supported jdk > > version(s) for existing minor release lines. > > > > I don't think we should change the Hadoop version. > > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Ryan Blue <rb...@netflix.com.invalid> > > wrote: > > > +1 for moving. I'm in favor of moving to Java 8 since Java 7 has been > end > > > of life for 2 years. > > > > > > https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/Oracle-Ends-Java-7Public-Updates > > > > > > rb > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:56 AM, suraj acharya <suraj....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> 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 > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Ryan Blue > > > Software Engineer > > > Netflix > > > > > > > > -- > > busbey > > > > > > -- > Ryan Blue > Software Engineer > Netflix >
