=== Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2011 === ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY Apache Mahout released version 0.4 on October 31, 2010. 0.4 included changes related to 153 issues, summarized here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12314396 It continues to change significantly and across the board, though a certain consistent scope and identity is confirming itself at this stage. It is a Java-based scalabe data mining library that currently has much of its implementation based on Apache Hadoop 0.20.x. It currently covers, primarily, collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, frequent itemset mining, and some related and supporting algorithms. The project expects to continue with an 0.5 release around May 2011. The 57 issues to date that are resolved or are being worked on for 0.5 are: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?pid=12310751 &fixfor=12315255 After that, we believe, will be a 1.0 release. From 0.5, the focus will change to making the code base stable and 1.0-ready. MAHOUT IN ACTION The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, has been completed and will be published in February 2011.
