Hi all, I've created the first release candidate (RC0) for Apache Hadoop 2.8.3. This is our next maint release to follow up 2.8.2. It includes 79 important fixes and improvements.
The RC artifacts are available at: http://home.apache.org/~junping_du/hadoop-2.8.3-RC0 The RC tag in git is: release-2.8.3-RC0 The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1072 Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 working days, ending on 12/12/2017 PST time. Thanks, Junping