I'm happy to announce that on May 13, Hadoop version 1.2.0 passed its release vote. It is now available in SVN and is in process of propagating to artifact mirrors. It should be available on all mirrors by end of day Wednesday.
This release delivers over 200 enhancements and bug-fixes, compared to the previous 1.1.2 release. Major enhancements include: - DistCp v2 backported - Web services for JobTracker - WebHDFS enhancements - Extensions of task placement and replica placement policy interfaces - Offline Image Viewer backported - Namenode more robust in case of edit log corruption - Add NodeGroups level to NetworkTopology - Add "unset" to Configuration API Please see the Hadoop 1.2.0 Release Notes<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.0/releasenotes.html> for more details. This is a beta release. I intend to start a stabilization release (version 1.2.1) in 3 weeks from now. All open Jira tickets with Target Version "1.2.0" that weren't yet closed, were moved to Target Version 1.3.0. However, if you want something fixed in 1.2.1, you are encouraged to edit that ticket, change its Target Version to 1.2.1, and contribute a patch to branch-1.2. Bug fixes are welcome in 1.2.1. However, we ask that significant feature enhancements be contributed to branch-1 for the future version 1.3.0, instead. Thank you, and enjoy your new release. Best regards, --Matt (release manager, version 1.2)
