We agreed on a release cadence a while ago <https://parquet.apache.org/docs/contribution-guidelines/releasing/#release-cadence> with quarterly releases. This is pretty much buried under the how-to-release guide. Maybe we should make this a separate page, and I like the idea of also communicating this to the community.
Kind regards, Fokko Op do 20 mrt 2025 om 07:45 schreef Gang Wu <ust...@gmail.com>: > I agree that dropping Java 8 should happen after we have released > new features like geometry and variant types. It would be good to > set the expectation of future releases (even without precise date) > so they can be planned. For example: > > - Release 1.16.0 for geometry and variant initial implementations. > - Release 1.17.0 as the last 1.x release to finalize these implementations. > - Release 2.0.0 with planned tasks including Java 11 support and deprecated > API cleanup. > > Best, > Gang > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hey Eugene, Gang, > > > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > > > Should we create an issue targeting milestone 2.0 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/milestone/27>? We've taken the > > first steps to drop Java 8, like Hadoop 2.x. I think with the new types > > like Variant and Geo coming up, I think it is reasonable to make sure > that > > we also release these features to the audience that's still on Java 8. > > > > Kind regards, > > Fokko > > > > Op wo 19 mrt 2025 om 02:28 schreef Gang Wu <ust...@gmail.com>: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
