As agreed in the recent [VOTE] thread, we will be releasing a 1.10.0 that bumps the minimum runtime Java version to 8.
I am beginning to work on getting the branch (currently still named 1.9) ready for release in accordance with this plan. As such, I will be preparing a pull request that bumps the Java version and resolves any errors generated by our plugins which do quality checks (specifically modernizer, but also some compiler warnings). However, there are still a few other outstanding issues that were previously labeled for 1.9, which have not yet been resolved. At least one of these was labeled a "blocker". These are: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F8 If anybody is able to work on these, it will be very helpful in getting the 1.10.0 ready for a release vote. Thanks, Christopher
