Apache Hadoop Changelog

Release 0.20.205.0 - 2011-10-06

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HDFS-2202 Changes to balancer bandwidth should not require datanode restart. Major balancer & mover, datanode Eric Payne Eric Payne
HDFS-1554 Append 0.20: New semantics for recoverLease Major . Hairong Kuang Hairong Kuang
HDFS-630 In DFSOutputStream.nextBlockOutputStream(), the client can exclude specific datanodes when locating the next block. Major hdfs-client, namenode Ruyue Ma Cosmin Lehene

IMPORTANT ISSUES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor

NEW FEATURES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7594 Support HTTP REST in HttpServer Major . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-7119 add Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO authentication support to Hadoop JT/NN/DN/TT web-consoles Major security Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-6889 Make RPC to have an option to timeout Major ipc Hairong Kuang John George
HDFS-1520 HDFS 20 append: Lightweight NameNode operation to trigger lease recovery Major namenode Hairong Kuang Hairong Kuang
HDFS-200 In HDFS, sync() not yet guarantees data available to the new readers Blocker . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze dhruba borthakur
MAPREDUCE-2777 Backport MAPREDUCE-220 to Hadoop 20 security branch Major . Jonathan Eagles Amar Kamat

IMPROVEMENTS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7720 improve the hadoop-setup-conf.sh to read in the hbase user and setup the configs Major conf Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7707 improve config generator to allow users to specify proxy user, turn append on or off, turn webhdfs on or off Major conf Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7655 provide a small validation script that smoke tests the installed cluster Major . Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7472 RPC client should deal with the IP address changes Minor ipc Kihwal Lee Kihwal Lee
HADOOP-7432 Back-port HADOOP-7110 to 0.20-security Major . Sherry Chen Sherry Chen
HADOOP-7343 backport HADOOP-7008 and HADOOP-7042 to branch-0.20-security Minor test Thomas Graves Thomas Graves
HADOOP-7314 Add support for throwing UnknownHostException when a host doesn’t resolve Major . Jeffrey Naisbitt Jeffrey Naisbitt
HDFS-1555 HDFS 20 append: Disallow pipeline recovery if a file is already being lease recovered Major . Hairong Kuang Hairong Kuang
HDFS-1211 0.20 append: Block receiver should not log “rewind” packets at INFO level Minor datanode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1210 DFSClient should log exception when block recovery fails Trivial hdfs-client Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1054 Remove unnecessary sleep after failure in nextBlockOutputStream Major hdfs-client Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-895 Allow hflush/sync to occur in parallel with new writes to the file Major hdfs-client dhruba borthakur Todd Lipcon
HDFS-826 Allow a mechanism for an application to detect that datanode(s) have died in the write pipeline Major hdfs-client dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur
MAPREDUCE-2981 Backport trunk fairscheduler to 0.20-security branch Major contrib/fair-share Matei Zaharia Matei Zaharia
MAPREDUCE-2729 Reducers are always counted having “pending tasks” even if they can’t be scheduled yet because not enough of their mappers have completed Major . Sherry Chen Sherry Chen
MAPREDUCE-2494 Make the distributed cache delete entires using LRU priority Major distributed-cache Robert Joseph Evans Robert Joseph Evans

BUG FIXES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7724 hadoop-setup-conf.sh should put proxy user info into the core-site.xml Major . Giridharan Kesavan Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7721 dfs.web.authentication.kerberos.principal expects the full hostname and does not replace _HOST with the hostname Major . Arpit Gupta Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7715 see log4j Error when running mr jobs and certain dfs calls Major conf Arpit Gupta Eric Yang
HADOOP-7711 hadoop-env.sh generated from templates has duplicate info Major conf Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7708 config generator does not update the properties file if on exists already Critical conf Arpit Gupta Eric Yang
HADOOP-7691 hadoop deb pkg should take a diff group id Major . Giridharan Kesavan Eric Yang
HADOOP-7684 jobhistory server and secondarynamenode should have init.d script Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7683 hdfs-site.xml template has properties that are not used in 20 Minor . Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7681 log4j.properties is missing properties for security audit and hdfs audit should be changed to info Minor conf Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HADOOP-7679 log4j.properties templates does not define mapred.jobsummary.logger Major conf Ramya Sunil Ramya Sunil
HADOOP-7674 TestKerberosName fails in 20 branch. Major . Jitendra Nath Pandey Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7658 to fix hadoop config template Major . Giridharan Kesavan Eric Yang
HADOOP-7649 TestMapredGroupMappingServiceRefresh and TestRefreshUserMappings fail after HADOOP-7625 Blocker security, test Kihwal Lee Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7645 HTTP auth tests requiring Kerberos infrastructure are not disabled on branch-0.20-security Blocker security Aaron T. Myers Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7644 Fix the delegation token tests to use the new style renewers Blocker security Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-7637 Fair scheduler configuration file is not bundled in RPM Major build Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7633 log4j.properties should be added to the hadoop conf on deploy Major conf Arpit Gupta Eric Yang
HADOOP-7631 In mapred-site.xml, stream.tmpdir is mapped to ${mapred.temp.dir} which is undeclared. Major conf Ramya Sunil Eric Yang
HADOOP-7630 hadoop-metrics2.properties should have a property *.period set to a default value foe metrics Major conf Arpit Gupta Eric Yang
HADOOP-7626 Allow overwrite of HADOOP_CLASSPATH and HADOOP_OPTS Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7625 TestDelegationToken is failing in 205 Major . Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-7615 Binary layout does not put share/hadoop/contrib/*.jar into the class path Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7610 /etc/profile.d does not exist on Debian Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7603 Set default hdfs, mapred uid, and hadoop group gid for RPM packages Major . Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7602 wordcount, sort etc on har files fails with NPE Major . John George John George
HADOOP-7599 Improve hadoop setup conf script to setup secure Hadoop cluster Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7596 Enable jsvc to work with Hadoop RPM package Major build Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7539 merge hadoop archive goodness from trunk to .20 Major . John George John George
HADOOP-7400 HdfsProxyTests fails when the -Dtest.build.dir and -Dbuild.test is set Major build Giridharan Kesavan Giridharan Kesavan
HADOOP-6833 IPC leaks call parameters when exceptions thrown Blocker . Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HADOOP-6722 NetUtils.connect should check that it hasn’t connected a socket to itself Major util Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-2411 with webhdfs enabled in secure mode the auth to local mappings are not being respected. Major webhdfs Arpit Gupta Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2408 DFSClient#getNumCurrentReplicas is package private in 205 but public in branch-0.20-append Blocker hdfs-client stack stack
HDFS-2405 hadoop dfs command with webhdfs fails on secure hadoop Critical webhdfs Arpit Gupta Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2392 Dist with hftp is failing again Critical namenode Rajit Saha Daryn Sharp
HDFS-2375 TestFileAppend4 fails in 0.20.205 branch Blocker hdfs-client Suresh Srinivas Suresh Srinivas
HDFS-2373 Commands using webhdfs and hftp print unnecessary debug information on the console with security enabled Major webhdfs Arpit Gupta Arpit Gupta
HDFS-2368 defaults created for web keytab and principal, these properties should not have defaults Major . Arpit Gupta Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2361 hftp is broken Critical namenode Rajit Saha Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2359 NPE found in Datanode log while Disk failed during different HDFS operation Major datanode Rajit Saha Jonathan Eagles
HDFS-2358 NPE when the default filesystem’s uri has no authority Major namenode Rajit Saha Daryn Sharp
HDFS-2342 TestSleepJob and TestHdfsProxy broken after HDFS-2284 Blocker build Kihwal Lee Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2333 HDFS-2284 introduced 2 findbugs warnings on trunk Major . Ivan Kelly Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2331 Hdfs compilation fails Major hdfs-client Abhijit Suresh Shingate Abhijit Suresh Shingate
HDFS-2328 hftp throws NPE if security is not enabled on remote cluster Critical . Daryn Sharp Owen O’Malley
HDFS-2325 Fuse-DFS fails to build on Hadoop 20.203.0 Blocker fuse-dfs, libhdfs Charles Earl Kihwal Lee
HDFS-2320 Make merged protocol changes from 0.20-append to 0.20-security compatible with previous releases. Major datanode, hdfs-client, namenode Suresh Srinivas Suresh Srinivas
HDFS-2309 TestRenameWhileOpen fails in branch-0.20-security Major . Jitendra Nath Pandey Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2300 TestFileAppend4 and TestMultiThreadedSync fail on 20.append and 20-security. Major . Jitendra Nath Pandey Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2259 DN web-UI doesn’t work with paths that contain html Minor datanode Eli Collins Eli Collins
HDFS-2190 NN fails to start if it encounters an empty or malformed fstime file Major namenode Aaron T. Myers Aaron T. Myers
HDFS-2117 DiskChecker#mkdirsWithExistsAndPermissionCheck may return true even when the dir is not created Minor datanode Eli Collins Eli Collins
HDFS-2053 Bug in INodeDirectory#computeContentSummary warning Minor namenode Michael Noll Michael Noll
HDFS-1836 Thousand of CLOSE_WAIT socket Major hdfs-client Dennis Cheung Bharath Mundlapudi
HDFS-1779 After NameNode restart , Clients can not read partial files even after client invokes Sync. Major datanode, namenode Uma Maheswara Rao G Uma Maheswara Rao G
HDFS-1346 DFSClient receives out of order packet ack Major datanode, hdfs-client Hairong Kuang Hairong Kuang
HDFS-1260 0.20: Block lost when multiple DNs trying to recover it to different genstamps Critical . Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1218 20 append: Blocks recovered on startup should be treated with lower priority during block synchronization Critical datanode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1207 0.20-append: stallReplicationWork should be volatile Major namenode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1204 0.20: Lease expiration should recover single files, not entire lease holder Major . Todd Lipcon sam rash
HDFS-1202 DataBlockScanner throws NPE when updated before initialized Major datanode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1197 Blocks are considered “complete” prematurely after commitBlockSynchronization or DN restart Major datanode, hdfs-client, namenode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1186 0.20: DNs should interrupt writers at start of recovery Blocker datanode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1164 TestHdfsProxy is failing Major contrib/hdfsproxy Eli Collins Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1141 completeFile does not check lease ownership Blocker namenode Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1118 DFSOutputStream socket leak when cannot connect to DataNode Major . Zheng Shao Zheng Shao
HDFS-988 saveNamespace race can corrupt the edits log Blocker namenode dhruba borthakur Eli Collins
HDFS-724 Pipeline close hangs if one of the datanode is not responsive. Blocker datanode, hdfs-client Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Hairong Kuang
HDFS-606 ConcurrentModificationException in invalidateCorruptReplicas() Major namenode Konstantin Shvachko Konstantin Shvachko
HDFS-142 In 0.20, move blocks being written into a blocksBeingWritten directory Blocker . Raghu Angadi dhruba borthakur
MAPREDUCE-3112 Calling hadoop cli inside mapreduce job leads to errors Major contrib/streaming Eric Yang Eric Yang
MAPREDUCE-3081 Change the name format for hadoop core and vaidya jar to be hadoop-{core/vaidya}-{version}.jar in vaidya.sh Major contrib/vaidya vitthal (Suhas) Gogate
MAPREDUCE-3076 TestSleepJob fails Blocker test Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
MAPREDUCE-2915 LinuxTaskController does not work when JniBasedUnixGroupsNetgroupMapping or JniBasedUnixGroupsMapping is enabled Major task-controller Kihwal Lee Kihwal Lee
MAPREDUCE-2852 Jira for YDH bug 2854624 Major tasktracker Eli Collins Kihwal Lee
MAPREDUCE-2764 Fix renewal of dfs delegation tokens Major . Daryn Sharp Owen O’Malley
MAPREDUCE-2705 tasks localized and launched serially by TaskLauncher - causing other tasks to be delayed Major tasktracker Thomas Graves Thomas Graves
MAPREDUCE-2650 back-port MAPREDUCE-2238 to 0.20-security Major . Sherry Chen Sherry Chen
MAPREDUCE-2610 Inconsistent API JobClient.getQueueAclsForCurrentUser Major client Joep Rottinghuis Joep Rottinghuis
MAPREDUCE-2549 Potential resource leaks in HadoopServer.java, RunOnHadoopWizard.java and Environment.java Major contrib/eclipse-plugin, contrib/streaming Devaraj K Devaraj K
MAPREDUCE-2489 Jobsplits with random hostnames can make the queue unusable Major jobtracker Jeffrey Naisbitt Jeffrey Naisbitt
MAPREDUCE-2324 Job should fail if a reduce task can’t be scheduled anywhere Major . Todd Lipcon Robert Joseph Evans
MAPREDUCE-2187 map tasks timeout during sorting Major . Gianmarco De Francisci Morales Anupam Seth

TESTS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HDFS-1252 TestDFSConcurrentFileOperations broken in 0.20-appendj Major test Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon
HDFS-1242 0.20 append: Add test for appendFile() race solved in HDFS-142 Major . Todd Lipcon Todd Lipcon

SUB-TASKS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HDFS-2404 webhdfs liststatus json response is not correct Major webhdfs Arpit Gupta Suresh Srinivas
HDFS-2403 The renewer in NamenodeWebHdfsMethods.generateDelegationToken(..) is not used Major . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2395 webhdfs api’s should return a root element in the json response Critical webhdfs Arpit Gupta Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2385 Support delegation token renewal in webhdfs Major webhdfs Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2366 webhdfs throws a npe when ugi is null from getDelegationToken Major webhdfs Arpit Gupta Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2356 webhdfs: support case insensitive query parameter names Major webhdfs Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2348 Support getContentSummary and getFileChecksum in webhdfs Major webhdfs Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2340 Support getFileBlockLocations and getDelegationToken in webhdfs Major webhdfs Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2338 Configuration option to enable/disable webhdfs. Major webhdfs Jitendra Nath Pandey Jitendra Nath Pandey
HDFS-2318 Provide authentication to webhdfs using SPNEGO Major webhdfs Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2317 Read access to HDFS using HTTP REST Major . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-2284 Write Http access to HDFS Major . Sanjay Radia Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HDFS-1057 Concurrent readers hit ChecksumExceptions if following a writer to very end of file Blocker datanode Todd Lipcon sam rash
HDFS-561 Fix write pipeline READ_TIMEOUT Major datanode, hdfs-client Kan Zhang Kan Zhang
MAPREDUCE-2928 MR-2413 improvements Major tasktracker Eli Collins Eli Collins
MAPREDUCE-2780 Standardize the value of token service Major . Daryn Sharp Daryn Sharp

OTHER:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HDFS-1795 Port 0.20-append changes onto 0.20-security-203 Major . Andrew Purtell