Thanks for flagging this, Mick! No concern from me as all EOL dates for these distributions have long passed and agreed that a NEWS entry is a good way to surface to users.
________________________________________ From: Mick Semb Wever <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cassandra 4.0 dropping support for older distributions Centos 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu 7.10 Sounds ok to be, but one small question; if a user is still running older > versions, can they downgrade JNA or would this break? Basically, do our > defaults/testing no longer support or would our source no longer be > compatible? > The patch for CASSANDRA-16212 does not change the use of JNA, so a downgrade of the jna jar file would be possible. But once the upgrade is in place there's no way really for us to enforce that any subsequent ticket doesn't take advantage of any new jna api. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
