Although Java 8 is still supported till the end of 2020 (commercial support is till January 2019,but i'm not sure if Spark falls into that cayegory), at some point Spark will have to support later versions (Java 11 LTS at the moment). There is also a question about Java licensing. It might be that Spark will have to move to OpenJDK or stop bundling Java at all.
Apparently when installed with deb on Ubuntu 18.10 it doesn't install bundled Java and so it uses system Java. So Spark runs for me with OpenJDK 11.0.1 as it is currently default one (java -version). I haven't tested it much, but it runs at least
Szymon Janowski
October 1, 2018 at 3:58 PM
Thanks for your replay. Apparently I (wrongly) thought it is Jira for Apache Spark, which now I know it is not You can ignore my comment. Sorry.
wroot
October 1, 2018 at 3:45 PM
I have added a comment into description, but i'm not sure if this is applied to Spark. What do you mean you use it in commercial applications? Spark is distributed here free of charge. It can be used in commercial/enterprise environment, but it doesn't make it a commercial software.
Szymon Janowski
October 1, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Hello, according to https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html Java 8 for commercial users is supported till January 2019. I bet most of us use Spark in commercial applications, so description of this ticket is a little bit misleading.
wroot
July 31, 2018 at 8:58 PM
As Java 10 is a few months away from EOL, changing to Java 11.
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Although Java 8 is still supported till the end of 2020 (commercial support is till January 2019,but i'm not sure if Spark falls into that cayegory), at some point Spark will have to support later versions (Java 11 LTS at the moment). There is also a question about Java licensing. It might be that Spark will have to move to OpenJDK or stop bundling Java at all.