title: Release 2.5.0 available date: 2014-08-11

Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 is a minor release in the 2.x release line.

The release includes the following major features and improvements:

  • Authentication improvements when using an HTTP proxy server.
  • A new Hadoop Metrics sink that allows writing directly to Graphite.
  • Specification for Hadoop Compatible Filesystem effort.
  • Support for POSIX-style filesystem extended attributes.
  • OfflineImageViewer to browse an fsimage via the WebHDFS API.
  • Supportability improvements and bug fixes to the NFS gateway.
  • Modernized web UIs (HTML5 and Javascript) for HDFS daemons.
  • YARN's REST APIs support submitting and killing applications.
  • Kerberos integration for the YARN's timeline store.
  • FairScheduler allows creating user queues at runtime under any specified parent queue.

Users are encouraged to try out 2.5.0

Please see the Hadoop 2.5.0 Release Notes for details.