[CASSANDRA-18891] Cassandra 4.0 - JNA 5.6.0 does not support macOS M1 arm64

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.x
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Bug Category: Availability - Unavailable
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: ARM
• Since Version: 4.1

Test and Documentation Plan

Jenkins build and manual testing

• Assignee: Thomas Steinmaurer
• Reporter: Thomas Steinmaurer

Authors

Thomas Steinmaurer

• Created: 28/Sep/23 13:38
• Updated: 10/Apr/24 18:43

Description

As discussed on Slack: https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CJZLTM05A/p1684745250901489

Created this ticket as clone of CASSANDRA-17019, to ask for considering a JNA library upgrade in Cassandra 4.0, so that we could utilize ARM-based AWS Gravition instances e.g. m7g already with Cassandra 4.0.

From linked ticket:
"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."

Issue Links

• is a clone of: CASSANDRA-17019 JNA 5.6.0 does not support arm64
• is cloned by: CASSANDRA-19547 4.1.4 Cassandra fails on bootstrap on arm64 due to JNA 5.6.0
• is related to: CASSANDRA-16212 Cassandra version above 3.11.0 failing for ARM64
• is related to: CASSANDRA-18050 Update JNA
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2767
• links to: SLACK Thread asking for the JNA library version upgrade