I was wondering about that myself especially since we already use Java 8 compiler but with source and target set to 1.7: https://github.com/ apache/impala/blob/master/fe/pom.xml#L289-L290
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Bharath Vissapragada <[email protected] > wrote: > Does Impala still support Java 7? There are lot of interesting Java 8 > constructs that we could use in the code, but wondering if that breaks any > compatibility. Thoughts? > > There is not much information in the docs btw. > > 3.x > https://impala.apache.org/docs/build3x/html/topics/impala_ > prereqs.html#prereqs > 2.x > https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_prer > eqs.html#prereqs >
