I think we are good on HBase side, at least on the 1.x+ branches. We are dropping support for 1.6 from HBase-1.0 onwards.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > [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 > > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
