Hi all, With heartfelt thanks to many contributors, the RC0 for 3.0.0-alpha2 is ready.
3.0.0-alpha2 is the second alpha in the planned 3.0.0 release line leading up to a 3.0.0 GA. It comprises 857 fixes, improvements, and new features since alpha1 was released on September 3rd, 2016. More information about the 3.0.0 release plan can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+3.0.0+release The artifacts can be found here: http://home.apache.org/~wang/3.0.0-alpha2-RC0/ This vote will run 5 days, ending on 01/25/2017 at 2PM pacific. I ran basic validation with a local pseudo cluster and a Pi job. RAT output was clean. My +1 to start. Thanks, Andrew
