| MAPREDUCE-4383 | HadoopPipes.cc needs to include unistd.h | Minor | pipes | Andy Isaacson | Andy Isaacson | 
| YARN-71 | Ensure/confirm that the NodeManager cleans up local-dirs on restart | Critical | nodemanager | Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli | Xuan Gong | 
| HDFS-4690 | Namenode exits if entering safemode while secret manager is edit logging | Critical | namenode, security | Daryn Sharp | Daryn Sharp | 
| MAPREDUCE-5065 | DistCp should skip checksum comparisons if block-sizes are different on source/target. | Major | distcp | Mithun Radhakrishnan | Mithun Radhakrishnan | 
| YARN-476 | ProcfsBasedProcessTree info message confuses users | Minor | . | Jason Lowe | Sandy Ryza | 
| HDFS-4699 | TestPipelinesFailover#testPipelineRecoveryStress fails sporadically | Major | test | Chris Nauroth | Chris Nauroth | 
| MAPREDUCE-5147 | Maven build should create hadoop-mapreduce-client-app-VERSION.jar directly | Major | mrv2 | Robert Parker | Robert Parker | 
| HADOOP-9469 | mapreduce/yarn source jars not included in dist tarball | Major | . | Thomas Graves | Robert Parker | 
| YARN-363 | yarn proxyserver fails to find webapps/proxy directory on startup | Major | . | Jason Lowe | Kenji Kikushima | 
| MAPREDUCE-5168 | Reducer can OOM during shuffle because on-disk output stream not released | Critical | mrv2 | Jason Lowe | Jason Lowe | 
| HDFS-4477 | Secondary namenode may retain old tokens | Critical | security | Kihwal Lee | Daryn Sharp | 
| YARN-690 | RM exits on token cancel/renew problems | Blocker | resourcemanager | Daryn Sharp | Daryn Sharp | 
| MAPREDUCE-4927 | Historyserver 500 error due to NPE when accessing specific counters page for failed job | Major | jobhistoryserver | Jason Lowe | Ashwin Shankar | 
| HDFS-4835 | Port trunk WebHDFS changes to branch-0.23 | Critical | webhdfs | Robert Parker | Robert Parker | 
| HDFS-3875 | Issue handling checksum errors in write pipeline | Critical | datanode, hdfs-client | Todd Lipcon | Kihwal Lee | 
| HDFS-4807 | DFSOutputStream.createSocketForPipeline() should not include timeout extension on connect | Major | . | Kihwal Lee | Cristina L. Abad | 
| HDFS-4714 | Log short messages in Namenode RPC server for exceptions meant for clients | Major | namenode | Kihwal Lee | Kihwal Lee | 
| HADOOP-9614 | smart-test-patch.sh hangs for new version of patch (2.7.1) | Major | . | Ravi Prakash | Ravi Prakash | 
| MAPREDUCE-5211 | Reducer intermediate files can collide during merge | Blocker | mrv2 | Jason Lowe | Jason Lowe | 
| HADOOP-9504 | MetricsDynamicMBeanBase has concurrency issues in createMBeanInfo | Critical | metrics | Liang Xie | Liang Xie | 
| MAPREDUCE-5059 | Job overview shows average merge time larger than for any reduce attempt | Major | jobhistoryserver, webapps | Jason Lowe | Omkar Vinit Joshi |