title: Release 1.0.4 available date: 2012-10-12
This is a Security Patch release for version 1.0.
There are four bug fixes and feature enhancements in this minor release:
- Security issue CVE-2012-4449: Hadoop tokens use a 20-bit secret
- HADOOP-7154 - set MALLOC_ARENA_MAX in hadoop-config.sh to resolve problems with glibc in RHEL-6
- HDFS-3652 - FSEditLog failure removes the wrong edit stream when storage dirs have same name
- MAPREDUCE-4399 - Fix (up to 3x) performance regression in shuffle
Please see the Hadoop 1.0.4 Release Notes for details.