Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

Hi Colin, Indeed, Hadoop was one of a few projects I mentioned in the original thread. When is Hadoop 3 expected to be stable? Examples are Cassandra[4], Lucene[5], Akka[6], Hadoop 3[7], > Jetty[8], Eclipse[9], IntelliJ[10] and many others[11]. Even Android will > support Java 8 in the next

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

Interestingly, Hadoop 3.x will require Java 8 or later. >From http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.0-alpha1/ > Minimum required Java version increased from Java 7 to Java 8 > All Hadoop JARs are now compiled targeting a runtime version of Java 8. Users > still > using Java 7 or below must upgrade

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

By supporting two Java versions, I mean supporting the two most recent ones. So, we'd only drop support for Java 7 after Java 9 is released, but no sooner (independently of how old or unsupported a particular version is). An alternative approach is to drop support a defined amount of time after a

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

i dont completely understand the meaning behind supporting 2 java versions. given java's pretty good about backwards compatibility if you build against the oldest JDK you support (say 8) it should run on anything newer (say 9). what am i missing? On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Ismael Juma

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

I think there are 3 main points that can be taken from that discussion with regards to the timing: 1. We should do the switch no earlier than Kafka's next major version bump (i.e. 0.11.0.0 at this point) 2. Some would prefer to support two Java versions, so we'd have to wait until Kafka's next

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

http://markmail.org/message/gnrn5ccql7a2pmc5 We can bump that up to revisit the discussion. That thread didn't have any closure, but has a lot of background information. On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Sean McCauliff wrote: > Wait for JDK 9 which is supposed to be

Re: any plans to switch to java 8?

Wait for JDK 9 which is supposed to be 4-5 months from now? Sean On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:23 AM, radai wrote: > with java 7 being EOL'ed for more than a year and a half now (apr 2015, see > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html) i was wondering if

any plans to switch to java 8?

with java 7 being EOL'ed for more than a year and a half now (apr 2015, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html) i was wondering if there's an official plan/timetable for transitioning the kafka codebase over to java 8?