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.