However, there is no agreement yet as to when this should be merged, see the thread on the mailing list.

Please have a separate discussion for dropping JDK 8 support. Mixing things can slowdown the decision making usually.
Also mention that it is needed to unblock the parquet bump.

@ajantha-bhat it's not really mixed. I intended the thread to focus on adding 21, but folks decided to focus on dropping 8, as this clearly is more important, so this is all the thread is about. I wish we could just change it's title...

• making java11 your base version is great -but you'll need a followup of 'cut hadoop-2' profile. this is a good thing
• java 22 is going to break a lost as they will cut Subject.doAs(), which used throughout multi-user services. just be aware that it'll be traumatic.

( rebased to resolve conflicts with now-merged #10474, no other changes )

Rebased to update formatting in flink/v1.19 classes.
I will move the baseline update commit to separate PR though.

Moved to 1.7.0 milestone per [VOTE] Drop Java 8 support in Iceberg 1.7.0 mail list thread. Will merge tomorrow.

Thanks for getting this through, @findepi!

nice. now, who is going to do the "drop hadoop2 profile", so letting iceberg move to filesystem APIs written since 2016?

@steveloughran do you want to do the honors @steveloughran?

can give it a go, its time I learned gradle properly. but busy with helping getting 3.4.1 out the door, including those final changes

@Fokko started that PR. #10932 ...looks like hive2 is dead too. This good in that it will significantly reduce test profiles -but it is going to make the PR at lot more complex. I think I may be getting out of my depth build-wise before very long