I'm opposed if only because I don't like weakening our compatibility promises.
What does Phoenix (or other downstream folks) lose out on because we work with jdk7 on our branch-1 releases? On Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 15:20 Josh Elser <els...@apache.org wrote: > We came back across this in Phoenix recently and Andrew suggested we > talk about it here in HBase. > > Can/should we move to requiring Java8 for HBase 1.5 and beyond? > > It would have my vote. > > - Josh >