Apache Hadoop Changelog

Release 0.16.1 - 2008-03-14

NEW FEATURES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-2735 Setting default tmp directory for java createTempFile (java.io.tmpdir) Critical . Koji Noguchi Amareshwari Sriramadasu
HADOOP-2371 Candidate user guide for permissions feature of Hadoop DFS Major . Robert Chansler Robert Chansler
HADOOP-2923 Check in missing files from HADOOP-2603 Major . Owen O’Malley Chris Douglas

IMPROVEMENTS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-2730 Update HOD documentation Major contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
HADOOP-2861 [HOD] Improve the user interface for the HOD commands Major contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
HADOOP-2911 [HOD] Make the information printed by allocate and info commands less verbose and clearer Major contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli

BUG FIXES:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-2754 Path filter for Local file system list .crc files Major . Amareshwari Sriramadasu Hairong Kuang
HADOOP-1188 processIOError() should update fstime file Blocker . Konstantin Shvachko Konstantin Shvachko
HADOOP-2787 The constant org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission.UMASK_LABEL should be “dfs.umask”, instead of “hadoop.dfs.umask” Blocker . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-2788 chgrp missing from hadoop dfs options Critical . Mukund Madhugiri Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-2785 Typo in peridioc block verification patch Trivial . Raghu Angadi Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-2780 Socket receive buffer size on datanode too large Major . dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-2716 Balancer should require superuser privilege Major . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-2733 Compiler warnings in TestClusterMapReduceTestCase and TestJobStatusPersistency Major test Konstantin Shvachko Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-2725 Distcp truncates some files when copying Critical util Murtaza A. Basrai Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-2789 Race condition in ipc.Server prevents responce being written back to client. Critical ipc Clint Morgan Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-2391 Speculative Execution race condition with output paths Major . Dennis Kubes Amareshwari Sriramadasu
HADOOP-2808 FileUtil::copy ignores “overwrite” formal Major . Chris Douglas Chris Douglas
HADOOP-2683 Provide a way to specifiy login out side an RPC Blocker . Raghu Angadi Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-2814 NPE in datanode during TestDataTransferProtocol. Major . Raghu Angadi Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-2811 method Counters.makeCompactString() does not insert separator char ‘,’ between the counters of different groups. Critical . Runping Qi Runping Qi
HADOOP-2843 mapred.join access control is overly restrictive Major . Chris Douglas Chris Douglas
HADOOP-2813 Unit test fails on Linux: org.apache.hadoop.fs.TestDU.testDU Blocker fs Mukund Madhugiri Mahadev konar
HADOOP-2840 Gridmix test script fails to run java sort tests Major test Mukund Madhugiri Mukund Madhugiri
HADOOP-2766 [HOD] No way to set HADOOP_OPTS environment variable to the Hadoop daemons through HOD Critical contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
HADOOP-2769 TestNNThroughputBenchmark should not used a fixed http port Major test Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-2894 task trackers can’t survive a job tracker bounce Blocker . Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley
HADOOP-2904 3 minor fixes in the rpc metrics area. Major . girish vaitheeswaran dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-2903 Data type mismatch exception raised from pushMetric Major metrics girish vaitheeswaran girish vaitheeswaran
HADOOP-2847 [HOD] Idle cluster cleanup does not work if the JobTracker becomes unresponsive to RPC calls Blocker contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Hemanth Yamijala
HADOOP-2809 [HOD] Syslog configuration, syslog-address, does not work in HOD 0.4 Critical contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
HADOOP-2931 exception in DFSClient.create: Stream closed Major . Michael Bieniosek Michael Bieniosek
HADOOP-2883 Extensive write failures Blocker . Christian Kunz dhruba borthakur
HADOOP-2925 [HOD] Create mapred system directory using a naming convention that will avoid clashes in multi-user shared cluster scenario. Major contrib/hod Hemanth Yamijala Hemanth Yamijala
HADOOP-2756 NPE in DFSClient in hbase under load Minor . stack Raghu Angadi
HADOOP-2869 Deprecate and remove SequenceFile.setCompressionType Major . Arun C Murthy Arun C Murthy
HADOOP-2958 Test utility no longer works in trunk Minor test Chris Douglas Chris Douglas
HADOOP-2915 mapred output files and directories should be created as the job submitter, not tasktracker or jobtracker Blocker . Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze

TESTS:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-2852 Update gridmix to avoid artificially long tail Major test Chris Douglas Chris Douglas

OTHER:

JIRA Summary Priority Component Reporter Contributor
HADOOP-2918 Enhance log messages to better debug “No lease on file” message Major . dhruba borthakur dhruba borthakur