Release 2.5.0 available
Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is a minor release in the 2.x release line.
The release includes the following major features and improvements:
- Authentication improvements when using an HTTP proxy server.
- A new Hadoop Metrics sink that allows writing directly to Graphite.
- Specification for Hadoop Compatible Filesystem effort.
- Support for POSIX-style filesystem extended attributes.
- OfflineImageViewer to browse an fsimage via the WebHDFS API.
- Supportability improvements and bug fixes to the NFS gateway.
- Modernized web UIs (HTML5 and Javascript) for HDFS daemons.
- YARN’s REST APIs support submitting and killing applications.
- Kerberos integration for the YARN’s timeline store.
- FairScheduler allows creating user queues at runtime under any
specified parent queue.
Users are encouraged to try out 2.5.0
Please see the Hadoop 2.5.0 Release
Notes
for details.
2014 Aug 11