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Robert Kanter commented on OOZIE-2969: -------------------------------------- Even though we only dropped Java 6 support in 2016, we really should have done it sooner. Java 6 was end of life in 2013. I think we should be okay upping to Java 8 as the minimum. As [~Jan Hentschel] mentioned [here|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2946?focusedCommentId=16070213&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16070213], Java 7 was end of life in April 2015 and it's now June 2017. This will make things simpler: regardless of which Hadoop (2.6+ or 3.x) you use, you would compile and run Oozie with Java 8. > Drop support for Java 1.7 > ------------------------- > > Key: OOZIE-2969 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2969 > Project: Oozie > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: core > Affects Versions: 4.3.0 > Reporter: Artem Ervits > Assignee: Artem Ervits > Fix For: trunk, 5.0.0 > > > I see the last jira to drop 1.6 support only resolved end of 2016 with > release of 4.3 but wondering if 5.0 is a good time to drop 1.7 support? 5.0 > will support Hadoop 3 and minimum required version to support it is 1.8. > Happy to pick it up if there's interest. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)