Thanks Junping for doing this. +1 (non-binding)
0. Download the src tar.gz file; checked the MD5 checksum 1. Build Hadoop from source successfully 2. Deploy a single node cluster and start the cluster successfully 3. Operate the HDFS from command line: ls, put, distcp, dfsadmin etc 4. Run hadoop mapreduce examples: grep 5. Operate AWS S3 using S3A schema from commandline: ls, cat, distcp 6. Check the HDFS service logs L > On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:18 AM, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > 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
