+1 On 17/09/14 06:47, Rohini Palaniswamy wrote:
Hi, Hadoop is dropping support for JDK6 from hadoop-2.7 this year as mentioned in the mail below. Pig should also move to JDK7 to be able to compile against future hadoop 2.x releases and start making releases with jars (binaries, maven repo) compiled in JDK 7. This would also open it up for developers to code with JDK7 specific APIs.Vote closes on Tuesday, Sep 23 2014. Thanks, Rohini ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> [Apologies for the wide distribution.] Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this year. As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now considering making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* release of Apache Hadoop which supports JDK6. This means, from hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we will not support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start relying on JDK7-specific apis. Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the trigger without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for you feedback. Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem to be at risk from this too. thanks, Arun
