+1 (Binding) * Built from source * Validated Checksums * Verified Signatures * Tried some basic HDFS shell commands * Browsed through the UI (NN, DN, RM, NM, JHS) * Ran some example jobs. * Verified the output of `hadoop version` * Verified the NOTICE & LICENSE files
Thanx Steve for driving the release. Good Luck!!! -Ayush On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 at 22:33, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > Apache Hadoop 3.4.3 > > I have put together a release candidate (RC1) for Hadoop 3.4.3. > > What we would like is for anyone who can to verify the tarballs, especially > anyone who can try the arm64 binaries as we want to include them too. > > The RC is available at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/ > > The git tag is release-3.4.3-RC1, commit 9d50c688466 > > The maven artifacts are staged at > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1465 > > You can find my public key at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/hadoop/common/KEYS > > Change log > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/CHANGELOG.md > > Release notes > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-3.4.3-RC1/RELEASENOTES.md > > Build note: the maven artifacts are off the aarch64 release, not the x86; > single builds on ec2 VMs through our cloud infra kept resulting in multiple > staging repos, > probably a side effect of our VPN setup. > > AWS SDK > ------- > > Previous releases included a "lean" tar without the AWS SDK, and/or > encountered > problems with the size of the .tar artifacts. > > Now all releases are built without the AWS SDK; it must be explicitly added > to > share/hadoop/common/lib/ > > To add aws support to hadoop, download from Maven Central the version of > the SDK > you wish to use: > > > https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/software.amazon.awssdk/bundle/versions > > For this release, the version to download is 2.35.4 > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/software/amazon/awssdk/bundle/2.35.4/) > > 1. Download the bundle-2.35.4.jar artifact and check its signature with > the accompanying bundle-2.35.4.jar.asc file. > > 2. Copy the JAR to share/hadoop/common/lib/ > > Newer AWS SDK versions _should_ work, though regressions are almost > inevitable. > > Please try the release and vote. The vote will run for 5 days. > > Here's my vote (with artifacts verified, including presence of hadoop-azure > and hadoop-aws in common/lib) > > +1 (binding) > > Steve >
