Apache Hadoop Changelog

Release 0.24.0 - Unreleased (as of 2017-08-28)

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7547 Fix the warning in writable classes.[ WritableComparable is a raw type. References to generic type WritableComparable<T> should be parameterized ] Minor io Uma Maheswara Rao G Uma Maheswara Rao G
HADOOP-7507 jvm metrics all use the same namespace Major metrics Jeff Bean Alejandro Abdelnur

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-7705 Add a log4j back end that can push out JSON data, one per line Minor util Steve Loughran Steve Loughran

IMPROVEMENTS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7595 Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3 Major build Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7668 Add a NetUtils method that can tell if an InetAddress belongs to local host Minor util Suresh Srinivas Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7642 create hadoop-dist module where TAR stitching would happen Major build Alejandro Abdelnur Tom White
HADOOP-7737 normalize hadoop-mapreduce & hadoop-dist dist/tar build with common/hdfs Major build Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7743 Add Maven profile to create a full source tarball Major build Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7509 Improve message when Authentication is required Trivial . Ravi Prakash Ravi Prakash
HADOOP-7772 javadoc the topology classes Trivial . Steve Loughran Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7360 FsShell does not preserve relative paths with globs Major fs Daryn Sharp Kihwal Lee
HADOOP-7763 Add top-level navigation to APT docs Major documentation Tom White Tom White

BUG FIXES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7589 Prefer mvn test -DskipTests over mvn compile in test-patch.sh Major build Robert Joseph Evans Robert Joseph Evans
HADOOP-7576 Fix findbugs warnings in Hadoop Auth (Alfredo) Major security Tom White Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-7593 AssertionError in TestHttpServer.testMaxThreads() Major test Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Uma Maheswara Rao G
HADOOP-7606 Upgrade Jackson to version 1.7.1 to match the version required by Jersey Major test Aaron T. Myers Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7568 SequenceFile should not print into stdout Major io Konstantin Shvachko Plamen Jeliazkov
HADOOP-7599 Improve hadoop setup conf script to setup secure Hadoop cluster Major scripts Eric Yang Eric Yang
HADOOP-7608 SnappyCodec check for Hadoop native lib is wrong Major io Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7663 TestHDFSTrash failing on 22 Major test Mayank Bansal Mayank Bansal
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-7745 I switched variable names in HADOOP-7509 Major . Ravi Prakash Ravi Prakash
HADOOP-7766 The auth to local mappings are not being respected, with webhdfs and security enabled. Major . Jitendra Nath Pandey Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7728 hadoop-setup-conf.sh should be modified to enable task memory manager Major conf Ramya Sunil Ramya Sunil
HADOOP-7778 FindBugs warning in Token.getKind() Major . Tom White Tom White
HADOOP-7771 NPE when running hdfs dfs -copyToLocal, -get etc Blocker . John George John George
HADOOP-7782 Aggregate project javadocs Critical build Arun C Murthy Tom White

SUB-TASKS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7469 add a standard handler for socket connection problems which improves diagnostics Minor util Steve Loughran Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7564 Remove test-patch SVN externals Major . Tom White Tom White

OTHER:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-7579 Rename package names from alfredo to auth Major security Alejandro Abdelnur Alejandro Abdelnur