Github user ankitsinghal commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-tephra/pull/67
@poornachandra , I have already made the change to compile HBase-2.0 with
Java 8. should I rebase and squash the commits for merge now?
It seems HBase 1.x releases are still with Java 7 so We can also support
Java 7 for the older releases of HBase so that user can still use latest
releases of Tephra without changing their environment. Though not sure why 1-2
tests of HBase 1.4 are failing on Java 7, we can fix this in separate JIRA.
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