Owen, The end of support from Oracle is just one aspect of it. As I mentioned earlier, we already seeing many libraries (hikaricp and jetty) move to requiring java8. Note that hadoop 3.0 line already requires java8 as well. As long as java8 is widely supported and available on systems users are likely to use for upgrading to a new 2.x release, I think we should be good.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm a little worried that we are dropping it too soon given that OpenJDK > will support 7 for another 1.5 years. > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 > > .. Owen > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Thejas Nair <thejas.n...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the topic of moving to jdk8 for unit > > tests > > > [1], and many people also expressed the opinion that we should drop > JDK 7 > > > support in Hive. Public updates by Oracle was stopped on Apr 2015 [2]. > > > > > > This vote thread proposes to dropping JDK 7 support in the next Apache > > Hive > > > 2.x release (ie master branch), so that we can start leveraging new > > > features in Java 8 and also libraries that require java8. > > > > > > [1] https://s.apache.org/hive-jdk8-test > > > [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > > > > > Here is my +1. > > > > > > Vote ends in 72 hours. > > > Thanks, > > > Thejas > > > > > > PS: I think this would fall under "Code change" under Hive-bylaws, so > it > > > doesn't seem to really require a formal vote thread. But I think this > > does > > > merit wider attention than a jira ticket. > > > > > >
