Danny Chan

> [@danny0405](https://github.com/danny0405) [@ad1happy2go](https://github.com/ad1happy2go) any update on this isssue? Since 1.1 release, the Hbase dependencies got completely removed from the repo, this issue would got addressed. @abhiNB-star what's your env for...

here is the fix: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/13515/files

Thanks, we had an internal discussion and it seems an issue related with JDK17, the JDK17 does not allow class casting from different classloaders even though the cast is valid....

@hwani3142 Thanks for the contribution, it's great if you can take care of the test failures.

@wombatu-kun Please be patient as of now, the community was making a haste for working out the Hudi 1.0.2 release recently, I will take some time to review this PR...

@wombatu-kun I see a lot of complexities are brought by the `InternalRow` variant data type and `Utf8String`, it's great if we can limit the changes just in the `hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark4.0.x` module(by...

> we have to make module hudi-spark4.0.x kinda self-contained: copy the code of hudi-spark-client and hudi-spark-common to hudi-spark4.0.x Another idea is we continue to maintain `hudi-spark-client-4.0.x`, `hudi-spark-common-4.0.x`, but indeed the...

@nsivabalan Is this the fix we talked before for savepoint deletion? Do we introduce cyclic dependency for clean and archiving.

> Whose value will either refer to first savepoint if first savepoint < earliest commit to retain. Does this mean we can not archive beyond any savepoint now? > Last...

> did you guys sync up on that. if not, can we sync up and make forward progress. I thought we have synced up and reached concensus in the last...