[ANNOUNCE] Apache Hadoop 2.7.6 Release.

[Konstantin Shvachko <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hi everybody,

I am glad to announce that Apache Hadoop 2.7.6 has been released. Apache
Hadoop 2.7.6 is now available for download from Apache distribution
repository
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.7.6/
and from Apache mirrors.
For download instructions please refer to the Apache Hadoop Release page:
http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html

This is the next release of Apache Hadoop 2.7 line. It is a successor to
the previous stable release 2.7.5, which was available since December 14,
2017. Apache Hadoop 2.7.6 includes 46 issues fixed after the 2.7.5 release,
which are critical bug fixes and optimizations. It particularly enables
POSIX groups support for LDAP groups mapping service.
See Release Notes for more details:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.6/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/releasenotes.html

Apache Hadoop 2.7.6 documentation is available at:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.6/

Congratulations and thank you all for contributing to Apache Hadoop!

--Konstantin