Release 2.6.0 available
Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 contains a number of significant enhancements such
as:
- Hadoop Common
- HADOOP-10433 -
Key management server (beta)
- HADOOP-10607 -
Credential provider (beta)
- Hadoop HDFS
- Heterogeneous Storage Tiers - Phase 2
- HDFS-5682 -
Application APIs for heterogeneous storage
- HDFS-7228 -
SSD storage tier
- HDFS-5851 -
Memory as a storage tier (beta)
- HDFS-6584 -
Support for Archival Storage
- HDFS-6134 -
Transparent data at rest encryption (beta)
- HDFS-2856 -
Operating secure DataNode without requiring root access
- HDFS-6740 -
Hot swap drive: support add/remove data node volumes without
restarting data node (beta)
- HDFS-6606 -
AES support for faster wire encryption
- Hadoop YARN
- YARN-896 -
Support for long running services in YARN
- YARN-913 -
Service Registry for applications
- YARN-666 -
Support for rolling upgrades
- YARN-556 -
Work-preserving restarts of ResourceManager
- YARN-1336 -
Container-preserving restart of NodeManager
- YARN-796 -
Support node labels during scheduling
- YARN-1051 -
Support for time-based resource reservations in Capacity
Scheduler (beta)
- YARN-1964 -
Support running of applications natively in Docker containers
(alpha)
Please see the Hadoop 2.6.0 Release
Notes
for details.
2014 Nov 18