Thanks Oscar! I'm thinking that the _right_ thing to do for the concerned PRs is to merge the heavier reflection-based version and cherry-pick it to branch-1.11...
... and then drop it in favour of the clean cast-based version as we drop Hadoop 2 support for Avro 1.12.0. I'm super interested in the opinion of anyone still using older versions of Hadoop! All my best, Ryan On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:42 PM Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Although Hadoop 2 is alive (version 2.10.2 was released on 31 May 2022 with > "211 bug fixes, improvements and enhancements since 2.10.1" [1]), versions > 2.9.x and older are EOL, as are version 3.0.x and 3.1.x [2]. > > On Java support: Hadoop 2.10 supports both Java 7 & Java 8. Hadoop 3.3 and > later support both Java 8 & Java 11 [3]. This confirms what Steve pointed > out: Hadoop 2 does not support Java >8. > > Now Java 8 has reached EOL a few months ago (on 31 March 2022), though > it'll receive security updates until 31 March 2025 [4]. This proves Hadoop > 2 is a dead end, and fully obsolete in 2 years, 9 months. > > As a result, I'd be happy to drop support for Hadoop 2 from Avro in the > next major release. > > Kind regards, > Oscar > > [1] https://hadoop.apache.org/release/2.10.2.html > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/EOL+%28End-of-life%29+Release+Branches > [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+Java+Versions > [4] https://endoflife.date/java > > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 18:52, Ryan Skraba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello! There's some discussion on these two PRs: > > > > https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/1431 > > https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/1618 > > > > TL;DR: In order to support features present in Hadoop 3, we either > > need to detect the version of Hadoop by reflection, or stop supporting > > Hadoop 2. > > > > Steve has reported that Hadoop 2 is not likely to work with Java 8 and > > recent versions of Avro... Does anybody have any objections to > > removing Hadoop 2 support in the next major version? > > > > All my best, Ryan > > > > > -- > > ✉️ Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <[email protected]>
