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Grant Henke commented on KUDU-1438: ----------------------------------- Netty 3.10.6, released in June 2016, is the last ever Netty 3 release: [https://netty.io/news/2016/06/29/3-10-6-Final.html]] At one point people had considered waiting for Netty 5 to avoid two major version changes, but Netty 5 work was dropped and there are no current plans for a Netty 5. See here for details: https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4466 > [java client] Upgrade to Netty 4 > -------------------------------- > > Key: KUDU-1438 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1438 > Project: Kudu > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: client > Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans > Priority: Major > > Netty 4 promises better performance for certain workloads, it was an effort > mostly led by Twitter. See their blog post about it: > https://blog.twitter.com/2013/netty-4-at-twitter-reduced-gc-overhead > asynchbase has a pull request for this, so our work should be similar: > https://github.com/OpenTSDB/asynchbase/pull/116/commits -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)