[ANNOUNCE] Apache Ambari 1.2.4

[Yusaku Sako <yu...@hortonworks.com>]

The Apache Ambari team is proud to announce Apache Ambari version 1.2.4.

Here's a summary of what's new in Ambari 1.2.4:

* Ability to use a non-root, sudo user to install Ambari agents
* Oracle database support for Ambari (in addition to Postgres)
* Oracle database support for Hive Metastore (in addition to MySQL)
* MySQL and Oracle database support for Oozie (in addition to Derby)
* Ability to select which stack to deploy
* General stability fixes


The release bits are at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/ambari
To use the released bits, please use the following documentation:

http://incubator.apache.org/ambari/1.2.4/installing-hadoop-using-ambari/content/index.html

We would like to thank all the contributors that made the release possible.

Regards,
The Ambari Team