Seeing as this came up very late, I am leaning towards dropping this off from 2.7.2.
That said, I don’t see any reason why this shouldn’t be in 2.8.0 and 2.7.3. Set the target-versions accordingly on JIRA. If you agree, appreciate backport help to those branches. Thanks +Vinod > On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Konstantin Shvachko <shv.had...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sorry for bringing this up late. > I think we should pick up HDFS-9516 for this release. > Rather critical bug fix, but up to you, Vinod. > > Thanks, > --Konst > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org >> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I've created a release candidate RC0 for Apache Hadoop 2.7.2. >> >> >> As discussed before, this is the next maintenance release to follow up >> 2.7.1. >> >> >> The RC is available for validation at: >> >> *http://people.apache.org/~vinodkv/hadoop-2.7.2-RC0/ >> >> <http://people.apache.org/~vinodkv/hadoop-2.7.2-RC0/>* >> >> >> The RC tag in git is: release-2.7.2-RC0 >> >> >> The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org at >> >> *https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1023/ >> >> <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1023/ >>> * >> >> >> As you may have noted, an unusually long 2.6.3 release caused 2.7.2 to slip >> by quite a bit. This release's related discussion threads are linked below: >> [1] and [2]. >> >> >> Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 days. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Vinod >> >> >> [1]: 2.7.2 release plan: http://markmail.org/message/oozq3gvd4nhzsaes >> >> [2]: Planning Apache Hadoop 2.7.2 >> http://markmail.org/message/iktqss2qdeykgpqk >>