[HBASE-13747] Promote Java 8 to "yes" in support matrix

• Type: Umbrella
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0, 2.0.0
• Component/s: java
• Release Note: Java 8 is considered supported and tested as of HBase 1.2+
• Assignee: Sean Busbey
• Reporter: Sean Busbey
• Created: 22/May/15 19:15
• Updated: 15/Jun/22 23:54
• Resolved: 01/Jul/15 13:15

Description

Now that Java 7 is EOL, we need to move to formally supporting Java 8. Let's use this ticket to track efforts needed to stop caveating our support table.

Issue Links

• is related to: YARN-3801 [JDK-8][YARN-2928] Exclude jdk.tools from hbase-client and hbase-testing-util
• relates to: HBASE-13911 add 1.2 to prereq tables in ref guide
• relates to: HBASE-16370 Exclude jdk tools.jar from Bytecode Version enforcer
• relates to: HBASE-16667 Building with JDK 8: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m
• relates to: HBASE-17502 Document hadoop pre-2.6.1 and Java 1.8 Kerberos problem in our hadoop support matrix
• relates to: HBASE-7608 Considering Java 8