We are expecting to release 0.22 very shortly. 0.22 is suppose to be considered stable because it has been heavily tested at scale by eBay team (as far as I know). However, I will let 0.22's RM to comment on that.
Cos On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:05PM, Niranjan Balasubramanian wrote: > Hello > > We are currently using hadoop 0.20.203 on a 10 node cluster. We are > considering upgrading to a newer version and I have two questions in this > regard. > > 1) It seems 0.21 is unlikely to become a stable release anytime soon and we > are weary of moving to an unstable release. Our primary concern is the data > we have on our hdfs. I want to know if anyone has been using 0.21 in > production and would like to hear about your experiences? Any advice on this > front is appreciated. > > 2) Do we know when 0.23 is likely to become stable? There has been some > discussion on mail #dev* about 0.23 becoming stable sometime soon. Is it > going to happen by the end of this year? > > Thanks > ~ Niranjan. > > * - > http://search-hadoop.com/m/f623FA7bDK1/hadoop+next+stable+release+0.21&subj=0+21+stable+schedule+