Today was the feature freeze date and we are glad to inform that all the major planned features are merged in branch-2: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Roadmap#Roadmap-Plannedfeatures :
Kudos to everyone who pulled through multiple blockers and made this happen. Special shoutout to Vrushali, Varun (both :)), Wangda, Inigo, Sunil, and Jonathan. I have set up a nightly build for branch-2 (hopefully): https://builds.apache.org/job/hadoop-qbt-branch2-java7-linux-x86/ We have 5 blockers and 10 other jiras in development that have to be addressed by *27th October 2017* following which we plan to cut branch-2.9: Blockers - https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12342048 WIP JIRAs - https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12342468 We'll be following up with each of the above JIRAs individually next week, lets make sure that we complete them by next Friday. -Subru/Arun
