Releases Archive

    Release 2.6.5 available

    2016 Oct 8

    A point release for the 2.6 line.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.6.5 Release Notes for the list of 79 critical bug fixes and since the previous release 2.6.4.

    Release 3.0.0-alpha1 available

    2016 Sep 3

    This is the first alpha in a series of planned alphas and betas leading up to a 3.0.0 GA release. The intention is to “release early, release often” to quickly iterate on feedback collected from downstream users.

    Please note that alpha releases come with no guarantees of quality or API stability, and are not intended for production use.

    Users are encouraged to read the overview of major changes coming in 3.0.0. The full set of release notes and changelog detail all the changes since the previous minor release 2.7.0.

    Release 2.7.3 available

    2016 Aug 26

    Please see the Hadoop 2.7.3 Release Notes for the list of 221 bug fixes and patches since the previous release 2.7.2.

    Release 2.6.4 available

    2016 Feb 11

    A point release for the 2.6 line.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.6.4 Release Notes for the list of 46 bug fixes and patches since the previous release 2.6.3.

    Release 2.7.2 (stable) available

    2016 Jan 25

    A point release for the 2.7 line.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.7.2 Release Notes for the list of 155 bug fixes and patches since the previous release 2.7.1.

    Release 2.6.3 available

    2015 Dec 17

    Apache Hadoop 2.6.3 is a point release in the 2.6.x release line, and fixes a few critical issues in 2.6.2.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.6.3 Release Notes for details.

    Release 2.6.2 available

    2015 Oct 28

    Apache Hadoop 2.6.2 is a point release in the 2.6.x release line, and fixes a few critical issues in 2.6.1.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.6.2 Release Notes for details.

    Release 2.6.1 available

    2015 Sep 23

    Apache Hadoop 2.6.1 is a point release in the 2.6.x release line, and fixes a lot of critical issues in 2.6.0.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.6.1 Release Notes for details.

    Release 2.7.1 (stable) available

    2015 Jul 6

    A point release for the 2.7 line. This release is now considered stable.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.7.1 Release Notes for the list of 131 bug fixes and patches since the previous release 2.7.0. Please look at the 2.7.0 section below for the list of enhancements enabled by this first stable release of 2.7.x.

    Release 2.7.0 available

    2015 Apr 21

    Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 contains a number of significant enhancements. A few of them are noted below.

    • IMPORTANT notes
    • This release drops support for JDK6 runtime and works with JDK 7+ only.
    • This release is not yet ready for production use. Critical issues are being ironed out via testing and downstream adoption. Production users should wait for a 2.7.1/2.7.2 release.
    • Hadoop Common
    • HADOOP-9629 - Support Windows Azure Storage - Blob as a file system in Hadoop.
    • Hadoop HDFS
    • HDFS-3107 - Support for file truncate
    • HDFS-7584 - Support for quotas per storage type
    • HDFS-3689 - Support for files with variable-length blocks
    • Hadoop YARN
    • YARN-3100 - Make YARN authorization pluggable
    • YARN-1492 - Automatic shared, global caching of YARN localized resources (beta)
    • Hadoop MapReduce
    • MAPREDUCE-5583 - Ability to limit running Map/Reduce tasks of a job
    • MAPREDUCE-4815 - Speed up FileOutputCommitter for very large jobs with many output files.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.7.0 Release Notes for details.