Hi Gluten developers, More and more big data related components bumped their minimal JDK version and dropped JDK8 support.E.g. Iceberg dropped JDK8 support starting from 1.7.0, Arrow 18+ also dropped JDK8 support. Hadoop 3.4.x also requires JDK11 due to some protobuf changes. Flink and Kafaka also plan to do similarly. In Gluten we are supporting old and new Spark with the same code. It's a little difficult to support these with legacy code involved. We are collecting the JDK8 usage in the poll below. Please vote and let us know the JDK version in production env. https://github.com/apache/incubator-gluten/discussions/8272
In general we are hoping to drop JDK8 support in 2025, and align with Spark on the JDK version support policies. The detail time is not defined yet. https://github.com/apache/incubator-gluten/issues/8226 thanks, -yuan
