I discussed this with Srikanth and for us the only dependency is Oozie I
think. Once Oozie moved to 1.7, we should jump and use the new features
that make a lot of boilerplate code go away.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Shwetha GS <shwetha.gs@inmobi.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arun C Murthy <acm@hortonworks.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:22 PM
> Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop
> To: "dev@hbase.apache.org" <dev@hbase.apache.org>, dev@hive.apache.org,
> dev@pig.apache.org, dev@oozie.apache.org
> Cc: "common-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <common-dev@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
>
>
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