Given a brief scan of that list, in no particular order the following could be destabilizing (I'm not saying they are necessarily, just that they touch things that could impact stability):
* ACCUMULO-4354 Bump dependency versions to latest * ACCUMULO-3423 speed up WAL roll-overs * ACCUMULO-4187 Rate limiting of major compactions * ACCUMULO-4077 upgrade to thrift 0.9.3 On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Dave Marion <dlmar...@comcast.net> wrote: > Looks like 128 issues in 1.8.x that are not in 1.7.x. I looked through them, > I didn't see anything that stood out as destabilizing. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4572?jql=fixVersion IN > (1.8.0%2C 1.8.1) AND fixVersion NOT IN (1.7.0%2C 1.7.1%2C 1.7.2%2C 1.7.3) AND > project %3D ACCUMULO > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: md...@cloudera.com [mailto:md...@cloudera.com] On Behalf Of >> Mike Drob >> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 3:14 PM >> To: Accumulo Dev List >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Question about 1.7 bugfix releases >> >> Are there potentially destabilizing new features in 1.8 that are not present >> in >> 1.7.x? >> >> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:39 PM Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Why do we consider 1.8.1 stable? >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > I would consider 1.8.1 stable (or, at least as stable as 1.7.3), >> > because it includes all the bugfixes that we've identified in 1.7, >> > plus fixes to all the known issues which were identified shortly after the >> rollout of 1.8.0. >> > And, because I've seen users use it successfully. >> > > -- busbey