+1 for removing 3.2, and older 3.4.x releases, and keep only the latest 3.3.6 and 3.4.2; +0 for removing 2.10.2, not sure how long if we want to keep the latest Hadoop 2 there;
Users are able to use closer.lua[1] to download all versions from an unified URL, it will route to dlcdn.apache.org or archive.apache.org site automatically. [1] https://infra.apache.org/release-download-pages.html#download-scripts Thanks, Cheng Pan > On Mar 11, 2026, at 02:36, PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > > The files are automatically copied to archive.a.o once they appear in > downloads.a.o - with maybe a few minutes or hours delay. > So all that is really needed is to remove the old releases from > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/hadoop/ > > I would suggest removing the links to the older 3.4 releases on > https://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html and just suggesting people go > to https://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/ if they want old source > releases. > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 at 19:19, Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> I just noticed that almost all releases are currently present on >> downloads.apache.org [1]. This even includes 3.2.4, which is already >> EOL, as well as all versions from the 3.4.x line. >> >> To the best of my knowledge, we should normally keep only the latest >> release on the downloads mirror, while older versions are moved to the >> archive [2]. >> >> Does anyone know why things are set up this way currently, and whether >> we can clean this up by moving the older releases to the archive? >> >> bcc. private@ in case folks from PMC have some context. >> >> -Ayush >> >> [1] https://downloads.apache.org/hadoop/common/ >> [2] https://infra.apache.org/release-publishing.html#distribution >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
