I'm also +1 doing this on trunk with the request that we try to break the
work up into small chunks.

(In case it helps: Sometimes I'll develop on a private feature branch just
to determine what the "small chunks" are, then re-do the work with small
incremental PRs on trunk)

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM Cheng Pan <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 for developing on trunk directly.
>
> > Hadoop 3.6.0 release towards the end of the year
>
> Hadoop 3.2.0 released in Jan, 2019
> Hadoop 3.3.0 released in Jul, 2020
> Hadoop 3.4.0 released in Mar, 2024
> Hadoop 3.5.0 released in Mar, 2026
>
> This expectation may be overly optimistic, but I’m big +1 for more
> frequently releases.
>
> One question, is there any docs for IPv6 testing infra setup?
> And how can we setup IPv6-only and dual-stack CI pipelines / local dev env
> (via docker)?
>
> Thanks,
> Cheng Pan
>
>
>
> > On Aug 20, 2026, at 01:50, Wei-Chiu Chuang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Note: I expect the scope is limited to Hadoop Common and HDFS. The cloud
> > connectors are not my area of expertise and I'd like to leave that to
> > someone more experienced.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM Shilun Fan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> +1. I support developing the IPv6 changes directly on trunk. A separate
> >> feature branch seems unnecessary, especially if the work is split into
> >> small, reviewable patches. Targeting Hadoop 3.6.0 toward the end of the
> >> year sounds reasonable to me.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Shilun Fan
> >>
> >> On 2026/08/19 05:09:57 Wei-Chiu Chuang wrote:
> >>> Would anyone object to developing this in the trunk branch? Given that
> >>> there's unlikely any minor releases before the completion of this
> >> project,
> >>> keep the IPv6 development in a feature branch seems like overkill.
> >>>
> >>> Let's shoot for Hadoop 3.6.0 release towards the end of the year?
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM Siyao Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Hadoop community,
> >>>>
> >>>> We would like to revive IPv6 support work in Hadoop. The immediate
> >> goal is
> >>>> to address gaps in hadoop-common, hadoop-auth and hadoop-hdfs-client,
> >>>> so that IPv6 support in some downstream projects (such as Ozone) can
> be
> >>>> unblocked, which we estimated would take ~6 commits in hadoop.
> >>>>
> >>>> We plan to revisit the earlier work and turn the applicable parts into
> >>>> small,
> >>>> reviewable changes. The main areas would include address parsing and
> >>>> formatting, networking, utilities, and test coverage for IPv4,
> >> dual-stack,
> >>>> and IPv6-only environments.
> >>>>
> >>>> Feature branches HADOOP-11890
> >>>> <https://github.com/apache/hadoop/compare/HADOOP-11890> and
> >> HADOOP-17800
> >>>> <https://github.com/apache/hadoop/compare/HADOOP-17800> look too
> >> outdated
> >>>> to work on or to be merged to trunk. Therefore, we will not work on
> >> either
> >>>> feature
> >>>> branch. But we might harvest useful bits from either and put that on
> >> trunk.
> >>>>
> >>>> After the relevant changes are merged and validated, downstream
> >> projects
> >>>> will also need a Hadoop release that includes them. We would discuss
> >> and
> >>>> plan for that release after the changes are merged.
> >>>>
> >>>> Feedback on the proposed scope and approach would be appreciated.
> >> Please
> >>>> also let us know about any related work we should coordinate with, or
> >> if
> >>>> you would like to contribute or review patches.
> >>>>
> >>>> ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11890
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Siyao
> >>>> Hadoop committer, Ozone PMC member and committer
> >>>> On behalf of Ozone PMC
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
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