Apache Hadoop Changelog

Release 0.9.0 - 2006-12-01

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:

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HADOOP-611 SequenceFile.Sorter should have a merge method that returns an iterator Major io Owen O’Malley Devaraj Das

IMPROVEMENTS:

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HADOOP-725 chooseTargets method in FSNamesystem is very inefficient Major . Milind Bhandarkar Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-721 jobconf.jsp shouldn’t find the jobconf.xsl via http Major . Owen O’Malley Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-689 hadoop should provide a common way to wrap instances with different types into one type Major io Feng Jiang
HADOOP-688 move dfs administrative interfaces to a separate command Major . dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-677 RPC should send a fixed header and version at the start of connection Major ipc Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-668 improvement to DFS browsing WI Minor . Yoram Arnon Hairong Kuang
HADOOP-661 JobConf for a job should be viewable from the web/ui Major . Owen O’Malley Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-655 remove deprecations Minor . Doug Cutting Doug Cutting
HADOOP-613 The final merge on the reduces should feed the reduce directly Major . Owen O’Malley Devaraj Das
HADOOP-565 Upgrade Jetty to 6.x Major . Owen O’Malley Sanjay Dahiya
HADOOP-538 Implement a nio’s ‘direct buffer’ based wrapper over zlib to improve performance of java.util.zip.{De|In}flater as a ‘custom codec’ Major io Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-489 Seperating user logs from system logs in map reduce Minor . Mahadev konar Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-76 Implement speculative re-execution of reduces Minor . Doug Cutting Sanjay Dahiya

BUG FIXES:

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HADOOP-750 race condition on stalled map output fetches Major . Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-749 The jobfailures.jsp gets a NullPointerException after a task tracker has been lost Major . Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-747 RecordIO compiler does not produce correct Java code when buffer is used as key or value in map Major record Milind Bhandarkar Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-741 Fix average progress calculation in speculative execution of maps + fix pending issues in speculative execution of reduces Major . Sanjay Dahiya Sanjay Dahiya
HADOOP-739 TestIPC occassionally fails with BindException Minor test Nigel Daley Nigel Daley
HADOOP-736 Roll back Jetty6.0.1 to Jetty5.1.4 Major . Devaraj Das Devaraj Das
HADOOP-734 Link to the FAQ in the “Documentation” section of the hadoop website Major . Konstantin Shvachko Konstantin Shvachko
HADOOP-733 dfs shell has inconsistent exit codes Major . Christian Kunz dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-729 packageNativeHadoop.sh has non-standard sh code Critical scripts Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-728 Map-reduce task does not produce correct results when -reducer NONE is specified through streaming Major . dhruba borthakur Sanjay Dahiya
HADOOP-724 bin/hadoop:111 uses java directly, it should use JAVA_HOME Minor scripts Sanjay Dahiya Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-723 Race condition exists in the method MapOutputLocation.getFile Major . Devaraj Das Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-722 native-hadoop deficiencies Critical . Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-716 Javadoc warning in SequenceFile.java Minor io Devaraj Das Devaraj Das
HADOOP-715 build.xml sets up wrong ‘hadoop.log.dir’ property for ‘ant test’ Minor test Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-712 Record-IO XML serialization is broken for control characters Major record Milind Bhandarkar Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-710 block size isn’t honored Major . Nigel Daley Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-709 streaming job with Control characters in the command causes runtime exception in the job tracker Major . dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-708 test-libhdfs.sh does not properly capture and return error status Major test Nigel Daley Nigel Daley
HADOOP-705 IOException: job.xml already exists Major . Nigel Daley Mahadev konar
HADOOP-699 “Browse the filesystem” link on Name Node redirects to wrong port on DataNode Major . Raghu Angadi Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-698 When DFS client fails to read from a datanode, the failed datanode is not excluded from target reselection Major . Hairong Kuang Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-696 TestTextInputFormat fails on some platforms due to non-determinism in format.getSplits() Minor test Sameer Paranjpye Sameer Paranjpye
HADOOP-695 Unexpected NPE from the next method of StreamLineRecordReader fails map/reduce jobs Major . Hairong Kuang Hairong Kuang
HADOOP-694 jobtracker expireluanching tasks throws out Nullpointer exceptions Minor . Mahadev konar Mahadev konar
HADOOP-687 Upgrade to Jetty 6 does not patch bin/hadoop Critical scripts Sameer Paranjpye Sameer Paranjpye
HADOOP-683 bin/hadoop.sh doesn’t work for /bin/dash (eg ubuntu 6.10b) Trivial scripts James Todd
HADOOP-682 hadoop namenode -format doesnt work anymore if target directory doesnt exist Major . Sanjay Dahiya
HADOOP-652 Not all Datastructures are updated when a block is deleted Major . Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-646 name node server does not load large (> 2^31 bytes) edits file Critical . Christian Kunz Milind Bhandarkar
HADOOP-645 Map-reduce task does not finish correctly when -reducer NONE is specified Major . dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-637 ipc.Server has memory leak – serious issue for namenode server Major ipc Christian Kunz Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-604 DataNodes get NullPointerException and become unresponsive on 50010 Major . Christian Kunz Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-459 libhdfs leaks memory when writing to files Major . Christian Kunz Sameer Paranjpye
HADOOP-447 DistributedFileSystem.getBlockSize(Path) does not resolve absolute path Major . Benjamin Reed Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-430 http server should die if the Datanode fails. Major . Konstantin Shvachko Wendy Chien

TESTS:

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HADOOP-382 add a unit test for multiple datanodes in a machine Major . Yoram Arnon Milind Bhandarkar

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