title: Release 2.1.0-beta available date: 2013-08-25

Apache Hadoop 2.1.0-beta is the beta release of Apache Hadoop 2.x.

Users are encouraged to immediately move to 2.1.0-beta since this release is significantly more stable and has completley whetted set of APIs and wire-protocols for future compatibility.

In addition, this release has a number of other significant highlights:

  • HDFS Snapshots
  • Support for running Hadoop on Microsoft Windows
  • YARN API stabilization
  • Binary Compatibility for MapReduce applications built on hadoop-1.x
  • Substantial amount of integration testing with rest of projects in the ecosystem

Please see the Hadoop 2.1.0-beta Release Notes for details.