+1
* Verified all checksums.
* Verified all signatures.
* Built from source, including native code on Linux.
* mvn clean package -Pnative -Psrc -Drequire.openssl -Drequire.snappy
-Drequire.zstd -DskipTests
* Tests passed.
* mvn --fail-never clean test -Pnative -Dparallel-tests
-Drequire.snappy -Drequire.zstd -Drequire.openssl
-Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=3 -DtestsThreadCount=8
* For ARM verification:
* Ran "file <X>" on all native binaries in the ARM tarball to confirm
they actually came out with ARM as the architecture.
* Output of hadoop checknative -a on ARM looks good.
* Ran a MapReduce job with the native bzip2 codec for compression, and
it worked fine.
Thank you for this release, Steve.
Chris Nauroth
On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 7:07 AM Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 (Binding)
> * Built from source
> * Validated Checksums
> * Verified Signatures
> * Tried some basic HDFS shell commands
> * Browsed through the UI (NN, DN, RM, NM, JHS)
> * Ran some example jobs.
> * Verified the output of `hadoop version`
> * Verified the NOTICE & LICENSE files
>
> Thanx Steve for driving the release. Good Luck!!!
>
> -Ayush
>
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 at 22:33, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Apache Hadoop 3.4.3
> >
> > I have put together a release candidate (RC1) for Hadoop 3.4.3.
> >
> > What we would like is for anyone who can to verify the tarballs,
> especially
> > anyone who can try the arm64 binaries as we want to include them too.
> >
> > The RC is available at:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/
> >
> > The git tag is release-3.4.3-RC1, commit 9d50c688466
> >
> > The maven artifacts are staged at
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1465
> >
> > You can find my public key at:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/hadoop/common/KEYS
> >
> > Change log
> >
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/CHANGELOG.md
> >
> > Release notes
> >
> >
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/RELEASENOTES.md
> >
> > Build note: the maven artifacts are off the aarch64 release, not the x86;
> > single builds on ec2 VMs through our cloud infra kept resulting in
> multiple
> > staging repos,
> > probably a side effect of our VPN setup.
> >
> > AWS SDK
> > -------
> >
> > Previous releases included a "lean" tar without the AWS SDK, and/or
> > encountered
> > problems with the size of the .tar artifacts.
> >
> > Now all releases are built without the AWS SDK; it must be explicitly
> added
> > to
> > share/hadoop/common/lib/
> >
> > To add aws support to hadoop, download from Maven Central the version of
> > the SDK
> > you wish to use:
> >
> >
> >
> https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/software.amazon.awssdk/bundle/versions
> >
> > For this release, the version to download is 2.35.4
> > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/software/amazon/awssdk/bundle/2.35.4/)
> >
> > 1. Download the bundle-2.35.4.jar artifact and check its signature with
> > the accompanying bundle-2.35.4.jar.asc file.
> >
> > 2. Copy the JAR to share/hadoop/common/lib/
> >
> > Newer AWS SDK versions _should_ work, though regressions are almost
> > inevitable.
> >
> > Please try the release and vote. The vote will run for 5 days.
> >
> > Here's my vote (with artifacts verified, including presence of
> hadoop-azure
> > and hadoop-aws in common/lib)
> >
> > +1 (binding)
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
