Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

Owen, The end of support from Oracle is just one aspect of it. As I mentioned earlier, we already seeing many libraries (hikaricp and jetty) move to requiring java8. Note that hadoop 3.0 line already requires java8 as well. As long as java8 is widely supported and available on systems users are

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

I'm a little worried that we are dropping it too soon given that OpenJDK will support 7 for another 1.5 years. https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 .. Owen On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Siddharth Seth wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Thejas Nair

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Thejas Nair wrote: > There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the topic of moving to jdk8 for unit tests > [1], and many people also expressed the opinion that we should drop JDK 7 > support in Hive. Public updates by Oracle was stopped on Apr

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1! On 17/2/28, 10:27, "Wei Zheng" wrote: >+1 > >Thanks, >Wei > >On 2/28/17, 09:21, "Mohit Sabharwal" wrote: > >+1 > > > >On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Thejas Nair >wrote: > >> Note that

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1 Thanks, Wei On 2/28/17, 09:21, "Mohit Sabharwal" wrote: +1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Thejas Nair wrote: > Note that upgrading the minimum required version to JDK8 also gives Hive > the option of using

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Thejas Nair wrote: > Note that upgrading the minimum required version to JDK8 also gives Hive > the option of using more recent versions of several libraries including > hikaricp (as default connection pool option) [1] and jetty [2]

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

Note that upgrading the minimum required version to JDK8 also gives Hive the option of using more recent versions of several libraries including hikaricp (as default connection pool option) [1] and jetty [2] [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13931 [2]

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

Thanks Alan for the proposal. JDK8 seems to have very useful API. It should be good to start using it. +1. On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Rajat Khandelwal < rajat.khandel...@inmobi.com> wrote: > +1 > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Prasanth Jayachandran < > pjayachand...@hortonworks.com>

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Prasanth Jayachandran < pjayachand...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks > Prasanth > > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:55 PM -0800, "Thejas Nair" < > thejas.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the

Re: [VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

+1 Thanks Prasanth On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:55 PM -0800, "Thejas Nair" > wrote: There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the topic of moving to jdk8 for unit tests [1], and many people also expressed the opinion that we should drop JDK 7 support

[VOTE] Drop support for Java7 in master branch

There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the topic of moving to jdk8 for unit tests [1], and many people also expressed the opinion that we should drop JDK 7 support in Hive. Public updates by Oracle was stopped on Apr 2015 [2]. This vote thread proposes to dropping JDK 7 support in the next Apache Hive