Hi everyone, We've just posted Spark 0.8.1, a new maintenance release that contains some bug fixes and improvements to the 0.8 branch. The full release notes are available at [1]. Apart from various bug fixes, 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, and optimizations to the shuffle. We recommend that current users update to this release. You can grab the release at [2].
[1] http://spark.incubator.apache.org/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html [2] http://spark.incubator.apache.org/downloads Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release: Michael Armbrust, Pierre Borckmans, Evan Chan, Ewen Cheslack, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Frank Dai, Aaron Davidson, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Harvey Feng, Ali Ghodsi, Thomas Graves, Li Guoqiang, Stephen Haberman, Haidar Hadi, Nathan Howell, Holden Karau, Du Li, Raymond Liu, Xi Liu, David McCauley, Michael (wannabeast), Fabrizio Milo, Mridul Muralidharan, Sundeep Narravula, Kay Ousterhout, Nick Pentreath, Imran Rashid, Ahir Reddy, Josh Rosen, Henry Saputra, Jerry Shao, Mingfei Shi, Andre Schumacher, Karthik Tunga, Patrick Wendell, Neal Wiggins, Andrew Xia, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia, and Wu Zeming - Patrick
