Releases Archive

    Release 1.2.0 available

    2013 May 13

    This is a beta release for version 1.2.

    This release delivers over 200 enhancements and bug-fixes, compared to the previous 1.1.2 release. Major enhancements include:

    • DistCp v2 backported
    • Web services for JobTracker
    • WebHDFS enhancements
    • Extensions of task placement and replica placement policy interfaces
    • Offline Image Viewer backported
    • Namenode more robust in case of edit log corruption
    • Add NodeGroups level to NetworkTopology
    • Add “unset” to Configuration API

    Please see the Hadoop 1.2.0 Release Notes for more details.

    Release 2.0.4-alpha available

    2013 Apr 25

    This release delivers a number of critical bug-fixes for hadoop-2.x uncovered during integration testing.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.0.4-alpha Release Notes for details.

    Release 0.23.7 available

    2013 Apr 18

    A point release for the 0.23.X line. Bug fixes to continue stabilization.

    Please see the Hadoop 0.23.7 Release Notes for details.

    Release 1.1.2 available

    2013 Feb 15

    Point release for the 1.1.X line. Bug fixes and improvements, as documented in the Hadoop 1.1.2 Release Notes.

    Release 2.0.3-alpha available

    2013 Feb 14

    This is the latest (alpha) version in the hadoop-2.x series.

    This release delivers significant major features and stability over previous releases in hadoop-2.x series:

    • QJM for HDFS HA for NameNode
    • Multi-resource scheduling (CPU and memory) for YARN
    • YARN ResourceManager Restart
    • Significant stability at scale for YARN (over 30,000 nodes and 14 million applications so far, at time of release)

    This release, like previous releases in hadoop-2.x series is still considered alpha primarily since some of APIs aren’t fully-baked and we expect some churn in future. Furthermore, please note that there are some API changes from previous hadoop-2.0.2-alpha release and applications will need to recompile against hadoop-2.0.3-alpha.

    Please see the Hadoop 2.0.3-alpha Release Notes for details.

    Release 0.23.6 available

    2013 Feb 7

    A point release for the 0.23.X line. Bug fixes to continue stabilization.

    Please see the Hadoop 0.23.6 Release Notes for details.

    Release 1.1.1 available

    2012 Dec 1

    Point release for the 1.1.X line. Bug fixes and improvements, as documented in the Hadoop 1.1.1 Release Notes.

    Release 0.23.5 available

    2012 Nov 28

    A point release for the 0.23.X line. Bug fixes to continue stabilization.

    Please see the Hadoop 0.23.5 Release Notes for details.

    Release 0.23.4 available

    2012 Oct 15

    A point release for the 0.23.X line. Most notably this release now incluses support for upgrading a 1.X HDFS cluster with append/synch enabled.

    Please see the Hadoop 0.23.4 Release Notes for details.

    Release 1.1.0 available

    2012 Oct 13

    This is a beta release for version 1.1.

    This release has approximately 135 enhancements and bug fixes compared to Hadoop-1.0.4, including:

    • Many performance improvements in HDFS, backported from trunk
    • Improvements in Security to use SPNEGO instead of Kerberized SSL for HTTP transactions
    • Lower default minimum heartbeat for task trackers from 3 sec to 300msec to increase job throughput on small clusters
    • Port of Gridmix v3
    • Set MALLOC_ARENA_MAX in hadoop-config.sh to resolve problems with glibc in RHEL-6
    • Splittable bzip2 files
    • Of course it also has the same security fix as release 1.0.4.

    Please see the Hadoop 1.1.0 Release Notes for details.