Hi Folks, Apache Hadoop 2.9.0 is the first release of Hadoop 2.9 line and will be the starting release for Apache Hadoop 2.9.x line - it includes 30 New Features with 500+ subtasks, 407 Improvements, 790 Bug fixes new fixed issues since 2.8.2.
More information about the 2.9.0 release plan can be found here: *https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Roadmap#Roadmap-Version2.9 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Roadmap#Roadmap-Version2.9>* New RC is available at: http://home.apache.org/~asuresh/hadoop-2.9.0-RC2/ <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.apache.org%2F~asuresh%2Fhadoop-2.9.0-RC1%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE7BF35IDIMZID3hPqiNglWEVsTpg> The RC tag in git is: release-2.9.0-RC2, and the latest commit id is: 1eb05c1dd48fbc9e4b375a76f2046a59103bbeb1. The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1067/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Frepository.apache.org%2Fcontent%2Frepositories%2Forgapachehadoop-1066&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFcern4uingMV_sEreko_zeLlgdlg> Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 days, ending on Friday 17th November 2017 2pm PT time. We want to give a big shout out to Sunil, Varun, Rohith, Wangda, Vrushali and Inigo for the extensive testing/validation which helped prepare for RC2. Do report your results in this vote as it'll be very useful to the entire community. Thanks, -Subru/Arun
