Hi, I was wondering if the Kudu project should consider deprecating Java 8. Since generally everyone is starting to move away from Java 8, in the near future CVE fixes for various dependencies might not be available. RedHat officially supports OpenJDK1.8 until Nov 2026, so there is plenty of time to consider the implications. Adding to this, newer OS-es (e.g. RHEL9 -> JDK11, Ubuntu24->JDK21) are using newer JDK versions by default. Currently Kudu builds upto Java19 (since the gradle upgrade) so I don't think there are any immediate tasks for this. I'm curious what the community thinks about this.
Best regards, Zoltan
