[CASSANDRA-17019] JNA 5.6.0 does not support arm64

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Bug Category: Availability - Unavailable
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: ARM
• Since Version: 4.1

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/2043cb9fb6b25ff34afb90467b9476a09acc3933

Test and Documentation Plan

Jenkins build and manual testing

• Assignee: Yuqi Gu
• Reporter: Igamr Palsenberg

Authors

Yuqi Gu

Reviewers

Dinesh Joshi, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 01/Oct/21 09:39
• Updated: 09/Apr/24 23:48
• Resolved: 07/Jan/22 19:07

Description

Cassandra depends on net.java.dev.jna.jna version 5.6.0 to do the native binding into the C library.

JNA 5.6.0 does not support arm64 architecture (Apple M1 devices), causing cassandra to fail on bootstrap.
Bumping the dependency to 5.9.0 adds arm64 support. Will a PR to bump the dependency be acceptable ?

Issue Links

• is cloned by: CASSANDRA-18891 Cassandra 4.0 - JNA 5.6.0 does not support macOS M1 arm64
• is fixed by: CASSANDRA-17040 Upgrade Snappy version to support Apple M1
• is related to: CASSANDRA-18050 Update JNA
• relates to: CASSANDRA-19547 4.1.4 Cassandra fails on bootstrap on arm64 due to JNA 5.6.0
• links to: PR #1238 Enable building jna for Darwin arm64