Thanks for bringing this up! I think this requires a major version bump which has been discussed at [1]. According to our release cadence [2], should we plan a parquet-java 2.0.0 release with action items like dropping Java 8 support?
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/kttwbl5l7opz6nwb5bck2gghc2y3td0o [2] https://parquet.apache.org/docs/contribution-guidelines/releasing/#release-cadence Best, Gang On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM Eugene Shvartsman <code...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our team is looking for a resolution on > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/1308 > > The issue with the build appears to be that parquet-java is build on Java > 8 while the new protobuf library is built on Java 11. `wgtmac` mentioned > that I should reach out to this dev group for a wider audience. > > Are there any plans in motion to upgrade to Java 11? > > Thank you, > Eugene Shvartsman > >