title: Release 1.2.0 available date: 2013-05-13
This is a beta release for version 1.2.
This release delivers over 200 enhancements and bug-fixes, compared to the previous 1.1.2 release. Major enhancements include:
- DistCp v2 backported
- Web services for JobTracker
- WebHDFS enhancements
- Extensions of task placement and replica placement policy interfaces
- Offline Image Viewer backported
- Namenode more robust in case of edit log corruption
- Add NodeGroups level to NetworkTopology
- Add “unset” to Configuration API
Please see the Hadoop 1.2.0 Release Notes for more details.