+1 -- Gianmarco
On 17 September 2014 10:11, Lorand Bendig <lben...@gmail.com> wrote: > +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 <a...@hortonworks.com> >> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM >> Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop >> To: "d...@hbase.apache.org" <d...@hbase.apache.org>, d...@hive.apache.org, >> dev@pig.apache.org, d...@oozie.apache.org >> Cc: "common-...@hadoop.apache.org" <common-...@hadoop.apache.org> >> >> >> [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 >> >> >
