Update: all good RC promoted, maven artifacts updated and site rebuilt. For the site I removed links to the -lean artifacts as they are all lean now and so having a separate link made no sense. I know it means there's some oddness where some versions do have lean.tar.gz which are unlinked, but removal of the entries was the code change most likely to work.
Updated the hadoop-release-support project and docs as appropriate. Lot of thanks to everyone who helped getting this out the door. I've also upgraded my raspberry pi from a microSD card to NVMe for the next time it is is needed. Now, let's see how long it takes to get into projects .... the java21 support should be a motivator. On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 at 13:03, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > > Vote summary > > +1 binding > > Steve Loughran > Ayush Saxena > Chris Nauroth > Anuj Modi > > +1 non binding > > Cheng Pan > Dongjoon Hyun > > > With these in, and the only issue seen being HADOOP-19821 on Java25, it's > good to release. > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 at 04:43, Anuj Modi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Build on linux with jdk 8. >> Ran tests for hadoop-azure module. >> Ran some basic hdfs commands on azure paths. >> Went through release notes. >> >> Thanks Steve for driving this. >> >> - Anuj Modi >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:39 PM Chris Nauroth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > +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 >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >
