Hi! Apache Bigtop community is happy to announce our next releaseof Bigtop 0.6.0. This latest release is based on Hadoop 2.0.5-alpha and it provides full integration between the following Hadoop ecosystem projects: * Apache Zookeeper 3.4.5 * Apache Flume 1.3.1 * Apache HBase 0.94.5 * Apache Pig 0.11.1 * Apache Hive 0.10.0 * Apache Sqoop 2 (AKA 1.99.2) * Apache Oozie 3.3.2 * Apache Whirr 0.8.2 * Apache Mahout 0.7 * Apache Solr (SolrCloud) 4.2.1 * Apache Crunch (incubating) 0.5.0 * DataFu 0.0.6 * Hue 2.3.0
Two brand new components in the release are: * Giraph 1.0.0 * HCatalog 0.5.0 This brings our total count of Hadoop ecosystem projects managed by Bigtiop to a whopping 15! (we're still not quite the Linux distro -- but we're getting there ;-)). This release has been tested and provides binary convenience artifacts for the following set of Linux distros: * RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 * Fedora 17 and 18 * SLES 11 * OpenSUSE 12.2 * Ubuntu LTS Lucid and Precise * Ubuntu Quantal We would like to invite everybody to join the developer community or simply give the binary Bigtop distribution a try. All you have to do is pick your favorite Linux Distro and apt-get/yum/zypper install whatever tickles your fancy: http://apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/bigtop/bigtop-0.6.0/repos https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+install+Hadoop+distribution+from+Bigtop+0.6.0 Once again -- thanks and enjoy the Bigtop Hadoop distribution! Your faithful release manager for Bigtop 0.6.0, Roman.
