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Steve commented on HADOOP-11090: -------------------------------- Commenting on the possible severity of this issue -- JDK7 has been discontinued by Oracle, yet the last publicly available release now has a day-zero vulnerability "actively being exploited by hackers". See: https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/july_2015_critical_patch_update http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html > [Umbrella] Support Java 8 in Hadoop > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-11090 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11090 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Mohammad Kamrul Islam > Assignee: Mohammad Kamrul Islam > > Java 8 is coming quickly to various clusters. Making sure Hadoop seamlessly > works with Java 8 is important for the Apache community. > > This JIRA is to track the issues/experiences encountered during Java 8 > migration. If you find a potential bug , please create a separate JIRA either > as a sub-task or linked into this JIRA. > If you find a Hadoop or JVM configuration tuning, you can create a JIRA as > well. Or you can add a comment here. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)