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Artem Ervits commented on OOZIE-2969:
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not sure why it failed to compile, it works fine on my local system
{code}
./bin/mkdistro.sh -DskipTests=true
{code}
> Drop support for Java 1.7
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> Key: OOZIE-2969
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2969
> Project: Oozie
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 4.3.0
> Reporter: Artem Ervits
> Assignee: Artem Ervits
> Fix For: trunk, 5.0.0
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> Attachments: OOZIE-2969-0.patch
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> I see the last jira to drop 1.6 support only resolved end of 2016 with
> release of 4.3 but wondering if 5.0 is a good time to drop 1.7 support? 5.0
> will support Hadoop 3 and minimum required version to support it is 1.8.
> Happy to pick it up if there's interest.
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