I found this for the umbrella task https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11090
It looks like most of the subtasks are done but the dependencies still need to be ironed out. On 7/27/16, 9:32 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote: >I am generally in favor of this for obvious reasons like EOL of Java 7. >We do have to do some investigation of whether dropping support for Java 7 >will align well with the rest of the Hadoop ecosystem. >This is important for various distributions that include Apache Knox. > >On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Sumit Gupta <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> +1 to going to Java 8. >> >> There was some work done earlier to make sure that the code compiles and >> tests pass with Java 8 so hopefully all we need to do is change the >>build. >> But regardless of the work needed, it is something we should slate for >>the >> next Knox release (probably 0.10.0 or 1.0.0 whatever it might be). >> >> Thanks for bringing this discussion up. >> >> Sumit. >> >> >> On 7/27/16, 5:13 AM, "Jérôme LELEU" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >This is a pre-requisite to upgrade to pac4j v1.9 (and j2e-pac4j v1.3), >>but >> >I think it's a more general concern for the project. >> > >> >Java 7 was EOL in April 2015, my feeling is that we should upgrade to >>Java >> >8. >> > >> >I rebuild the whole source code using Java 8 without any problem (I did >> >not >> >run the tests though). >> > >> >What do you think? >> > >> >Thanks. >> >Best regards, >> >Jérôme >> >>
