Good catch -- I am not sure. I know that Twitter recently upgraded to 2.9 line so I imagine there are still interest in maintaining that branch. Let's move this question to the Hadoop dev mailing list.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 9:41 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote: > And even the latest 2.9.x release, 2.9.2, was released at 2018 Nov, which > is also more than a year. Is this branch still alive? > > Thanks. > > 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> 于2019年12月26日周四 上午9:37写道： > > > We will only remove the hadoop 2.x support from hbase 3.x, which does not > > have a formal release plan yet, for 2.x we will still support hadoop 2.x. > > > > Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> 于2019年12月26日周四 上午8:57写道： > > > >> With my Hadoop hat's on, we have not yet officially declared Hadoop 2.8 > >> EOL. I think the 2.8 download missing from the web page is just a > mistake. > >> > >> That being said, some of the biggest Hadoop users (LinkedIn, Yahoo, > >> Microsoft) that I am aware of are moving up from 2.7/2.8 to 2.10, and > that > >> 2.8.5 (the last version in the 2.8 line) was released in Sep 2018, more > >> than a year ago. It doesn't look like the community has the desire to > >> continue the 2.8 line. > >> > >> I think it is a little extreme to remove hadoop2 profile, given that > >> Hadoop > >> 2.9 and 2.10 are still active and I expect Hadoop 2 to stay around for > at > >> least 2 years out. > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 8:41 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Hadoop 2.8.x has been removed from the download page of hadoop so I > >> think > >> > it is time to bump the hadoop dependency to 2.9.x, on master an > >> branch-2. > >> > > >> > And the hadoop community is going to make 2.10.x the last minor > release > >> > line for 2.x > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cab84265d632b90d66dcd1ad957a7439a2c76a987c7e62feafb4812e%40%3Ccommon-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E > >> > > >> > > >> > I think this is a sign that the community is moving forward to 3.x. > So I > >> > propose we make the master branch hadoop3 only, This requires changing > >> the > >> > pom a bit to active hadoop3 profile by default and remove the hadoop2 > >> > profile. > >> > > >> > Thoughts? Thanks. > >> > > >> > > >
