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Posted to announce@apache.org by Karthik Kambatla <ka...@apache.org> on 2014/08/15 18:46:28 UTC

Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is released

The Apache Hadoop community has voted to release Apache Hadoop 2.5.0.

Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is a minor release in the 2.x release line and includes
some major features and improvements (Extended File Attributes and Improved
Web UIs in HDFS, Security for ATS, Richer YARN REST APIs) as well as
several bug fixes. More details can be found in the documentation
<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.5.0/> and release notes
<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.5.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/releasenotes.html>
.

The next minor release (2.6.0) is expected to include some major features
as well - Transparent encryption in HDFS along with a Key Management
Server, work-preserving restarts of all YARN daemons among others. Refer to
the roadmap <http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap> for a full, updated
list.

Cheers!
Karthik