Hi all, With fix of HDFS-11431 get in, I've created a new release candidate (RC3) for Apache Hadoop 2.8.0.
This is the next minor release to follow up 2.7.0 which has been released for more than 1 year. It comprises 2,900+ fixes, improvements, and new features. Most of these commits are released for the first time in branch-2. More information about the 2.8.0 release plan can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+2.8+Release New RC is available at: http://home.apache.org/~junping_du/hadoop-2.8.0-RC3 The RC tag in git is: release-2.8.0-RC3, and the latest commit id is: 91f2b7a13d1e97be65db92ddabc627cc29ac0009 The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1057 Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 days, ending on 03/22/2017 PDT time. Thanks, Junping