Ping. I am sending this out again because we are evaluating the possibility of upgrading to Tomcat 7, 8 or 9.
Thoughts? We've got customers asking us to do it so I am quite serious about this proposal. The impact includes KMS and Httpfs. We are also looking into upgrading Tomcat versions in other projects (Oozie, for example) On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:47 PM Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@cloudera.com> wrote: > During the Wednesday's meetup, we discussed the plan for the "bridge > release" branch-2.10. > > A smooth upgrade path (that is, rolling upgrade) from 2.10 to Hadoop 3 was > called out as the most critical release criteria. > > I am wondering if Tomcat (as well as other dependency upgrade) upgrade > should be considered as well? > > We migrated from Tomcat to Jetty in Hadoop3, because Tomcat 6 went EOL in > 2016. But we did not realize three years after Tomcat 6's EOL, a majority > of Hadoop users are still in Hadoop 2, and it looks like Hadoop 2 will stay > alive for another few years. > > Backporting Jetty to Hadoop2 is probably too big of an imcompatibility. > How about migrating to Tomcat9? > > FWIW, Tomcat 6 EOL along is big enough a reason why you should move up to > Hadoop 3. :) >
