Thanks Andrew! It's good to see another milestone. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm pleased to announce the release of the second alpha in the 3.0.0 > release line, 3.0.0-alpha2. This release contains 857 fixes, improvements, > and new features based on user feedback on the previous 3.0.0-alpha1 > release. You can read the release notes [1] and changelog [2] for full > details. > > Note that this is an alpha release, and comes with no guarantees as to > quality or compatibility, and is not intended for production use. > > I'd like to highlight the following major changes [3] coming in alpha2 > since alpha1: > > * Shaded client jars added by HADOOP-11804, provided by the > "hadoop-client-api" and "hadoop-client-runtime" artifacts. > * New filesystem connectors for Microsoft Azure Data Lake and Aliyun Object > Storage System > * Support for opportunistic container scheduling and distributed scheduling > * Additional improvements to major Hadoop 3 features like Timeline Server > v2 and HDFS erasure coding > > Please try out the release and let us know what you think. We're currently > planning one more alpha release before freezing for beta, so this is a key > time to incorporate feedback. > > Best, > Andrew > > [1] > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.0-alpha2/hadoop-project- > dist/hadoop-common/release/3.0.0-alpha2/RELEASENOTES.3.0.0-alpha2.html > > [2] > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.0-alpha2/hadoop-project- > dist/hadoop-common/release/3.0.0-alpha2/CHANGES.3.0.0-alpha2.html > > [3] http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.0-alpha2/index.html >
