How about using a new hadoop 3.3 profile for features that are explicitly
present in 3.3 (like FileSystem changes)? When the time comes, we switch to
3.3 profile by default and drop old hadoop 3 profile that supports 3.2.x
versions as of today?


On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 7:11 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In general, in HBase, we will use the last patch release of the oldest
> supported hadoop release line as our default hadoop dependency.
>
> For example, since we claim that 3.x will support hadoop 3.2.x and
> 3.3.x, then we will declare the default hadoop version as 3.2.4.
>
> I think we can discuss whether to move up to 3.3.6 as the default
> version, if there are no compatibility issues when communicating with
> 3.2.x hadoop clusters.
>
> But if we want to use the features which are only provided in 3.3.6,
> then we should be careful as this means our users can not build hbase
> with 3.2.x any more, which means we have dropped the support for
> 3.2.x.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> 于2023年6月16日周五 06:03写道:
> >
> > Hi HBase devs,
> >
> > Over the past few years HBase supports the default Hadoop version of
> 3.2.x
> > but it also works on Hadoop 3.3.x.
> >
> > I'm wondering if it makes sense to move the current default
> hadoop.version
> > <https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/master/pom.xml#L800> from 3.2.4 to
> > 3.3.x.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > 1. From a stability and security point of view, Hadoop 3.3 is the most up
> > to date release line. And all HBase tests pass using 3.3.x. There hasn't
> > been a new Hadoop 3.2.x release for over a year.
> >
> > 2. We have a feature (using HBase on Ozone) that depends on an API in
> > Hadoop 3.3.6 that is not yet in any 3.2 release line. Moving the default
> > hadoop version to 3.3.6 will save a lot of hassle.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Best,
> > Weichiu
>

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