title: Release 1.1.0 available date: 2012-10-13

This is a beta release for version 1.1.

This release has approximately 135 enhancements and bug fixes compared to Hadoop-1.0.4, including:

  • Many performance improvements in HDFS, backported from trunk
  • Improvements in Security to use SPNEGO instead of Kerberized SSL for HTTP transactions
  • Lower default minimum heartbeat for task trackers from 3 sec to 300msec to increase job throughput on small clusters
  • Port of Gridmix v3
  • Set MALLOC_ARENA_MAX in hadoop-config.sh to resolve problems with glibc in RHEL-6
  • Splittable bzip2 files
  • Of course it also has the same security fix as release 1.0.4.

Please see the Hadoop 1.1.0 Release Notes for details.