HBASE-28477 Update ref guide about the EOL for branch-2.4 (#6049)

Signed-off-by: Yi Mei <[email protected]>

Author: Apache9

src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/community.adoc

@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ If this list goes out of date or you can't reach the listed person, reach out to
 
 | 2.4
 | Andrew Purtell
-| Check the https://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html[download] page
-| *NOT YET*
+| 2.4.18
+| June 2024
 
 | 2.5
 | Andrew Purtell

src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/configuration.adoc

@@ -294,16 +294,19 @@ use Apache Hadoop, or a vendor's distribution of Hadoop. No distinction is made
 link:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP2/Distributions+and+Commercial+Support[the Hadoop wiki]
 for information about vendors of Hadoop.
 
-.Hadoop 2.x is recommended.
+.Hadoop 3.x is recommended.
 [TIP]
 ====
-Hadoop 2.x is faster and includes features, such as short-circuit reads (see
-<<perf.hdfs.configs.localread>>), which will help improve your HBase random read profile. Hadoop
-2.x also includes important bug fixes that will improve your overall HBase experience. HBase does
-not support running with earlier versions of Hadoop. See the table below for requirements specific
-to different HBase versions.
+Comparing to Hadoop 1.x, Hadoop 2.x is faster and includes features, such as short-circuit reads
+(see <<perf.hdfs.configs.localread>>), which will help improve your HBase random read profile.
+Hadoop 2.x also includes important bug fixes that will improve your overall HBase experience. HBase
+does not support running with earlier versions of Hadoop. See the table below for requirements
+specific to different HBase versions.
+
+Today, Hadoop 3.x is recommended as the last Hadoop 2.x release 2.10.2 was released years ago, and
+there is no release for Hadoop 2.x for a very long time, although the Hadoop community does not
+officially EOL Hadoop 2.x yet.
 
-Hadoop 3.x is still in early access releases and has not yet been sufficiently tested by the HBase community for production use cases.
 ====
 
 Use the following legend to interpret these tables:
@@ -315,29 +318,29 @@ link:https://hadoop.apache.org/cve_list.html[CVEs] so we drop the support in new
 
 .Hadoop version support matrix for active release lines
 
-[cols="1,2*^.^", options="header"]
+[cols="1,1*^.^", options="header"]
 |===
-| | HBase-2.4.x | HBase-2.5.x
-|Hadoop-2.10.[0-1] | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-2.10.2+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
-|Hadoop-3.1.0 | icon:times-circle[role="red"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-3.1.1+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-3.2.[0-2] | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-3.2.3+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
-|Hadoop-3.3.[0-1] | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-3.3.2+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+| | HBase-2.5.x
+|Hadoop-2.10.[0-1] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-2.10.2+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+|Hadoop-3.1.0 | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-3.1.1+ | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-3.2.[0-2] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-3.2.3+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+|Hadoop-3.3.[0-1] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-3.3.2+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
 |===
 
 .Hadoop version support matrix for EOM 2.3+ release lines
 
-[cols="1,1*^.^", options="header"]
+[cols="1,2*^.^", options="header"]
 |===
-| | HBase-2.3.x
-|Hadoop-2.10.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
-|Hadoop-3.1.0 | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
-|Hadoop-3.1.1+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
-|Hadoop-3.2.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
-|Hadoop-3.3.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+| | HBase-2.3.x | HBase-2.4.x
+|Hadoop-2.10.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+|Hadoop-3.1.0 | icon:times-circle[role="red"] | icon:times-circle[role="red"]
+|Hadoop-3.1.1+ | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+|Hadoop-3.2.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
+|Hadoop-3.3.x | icon:check-circle[role="green"] | icon:check-circle[role="green"]
 |===
 
 .Hadoop version support matrix for EOM 2.x release lines