+1 Build on linux with jdk 8. Ran tests for hadoop-azure module. Ran some basic hdfs commands on azure paths. Went through release notes.
Thanks Steve for driving this. - Anuj Modi On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:39 PM Chris Nauroth <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > * Verified all checksums. > * Verified all signatures. > * Built from source, including native code on Linux. > * mvn clean package -Pnative -Psrc -Drequire.openssl -Drequire.snappy > -Drequire.zstd -DskipTests > * Tests passed. > * mvn --fail-never clean test -Pnative -Dparallel-tests > -Drequire.snappy -Drequire.zstd -Drequire.openssl > -Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=3 -DtestsThreadCount=8 > * For ARM verification: > * Ran "file <X>" on all native binaries in the ARM tarball to confirm > they actually came out with ARM as the architecture. > * Output of hadoop checknative -a on ARM looks good. > * Ran a MapReduce job with the native bzip2 codec for compression, and > it worked fine. > > Thank you for this release, Steve. > > Chris Nauroth > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 7:07 AM Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +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 > > > > > >
