Thanks, folks. If there are no objections, I’ll proceed with cleaning things up 
next week, excluding 2.10.2 and the latest releases.

-Ayush

> On 12 Mar 2026, at 12:22 PM, Cheng Pan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +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
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