[FLINK-6466] Build Hadoop 2.8.0 convenience binaries

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Build System
• Assignee: Greg Hogan
• Reporter: Greg Hogan
• Created: 05/May/17 17:55
• Updated: 10/Aug/17 17:35
• Resolved: 01/Jun/17 16:10

Description

As discussed on the dev mailing list, add Hadoop 2.8 to the create_release_files.sh script and TravisCI test matrix.

If there is consensus then references to binaries for old versions of Hadoop could be removed.

Issue Links

• is related to: FLINK-7413 Release Hadoop 2.8.x convenience binaries for 1.3.x
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3832