Perhaps. But the tests pass with 2.6.1, I think. Shouldn't be that much different in terms of support, so I figured go with the minimum we can test with. FWIW, this affects 1.7.2 also, but i figured a bump there would be more controversial.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016, 19:22 Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > For that reasoning, wouldn't bumping to 2.6.4 be better (as long as > Hadoop didn't do anything screwy that they shouldn't have in a > maintenance release...) > > I have not looked at deltas between 2.6.1 and 2.6.4 > > Christopher wrote: > > I was looking at the recently bumped tickets and noticed > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4150 > > > > It seems to me that we may want to make our minimum supported Hadoop > > version 2.6.1, at least for the 1.8.0 release. > > > > That's not to say it won't work with other versions... just that it's not > > something we're testing for in the latest release, and isn't recommended > > (and possibly, a downstream packager may need to patch Accumulo to > support > > the older version). > > >
