FYI
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Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:52:45 -0700
From: Arun C Murthy <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
CC: [email protected] <[email protected]>
[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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