It gives me great honor to announce that the Apache Hadoop community has voted to release Apache Hadoop 2.6.3.
Hadoop 2.6.3 is a continuing maintenance release in the Hadoop 2.6.x line that builds on top of 2.6.3. It contains a number of critical fixes done by the community on and backported from the 2.7 line and from the ongoing 2.8 line. The release has 35 resolved issues with the following breakdown - 8 in Hadoop Common - 7 in HDFS - 12 in YARN - 8 in MapReduce Please see the Hadoop 2.6.3 Release Notes < http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.3/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/releasenotes.html > for more detail. The release news is posted on the Hadoop website too, you can go to the downloads section directly (http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html#Download ). The release documentation is up at http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.3/. Kudos to everyone who contributed to the release, also special thanks to Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli, Steve Loughran and Sangjin Lee for help in release process! Thanks, Junping
