Apache Hadoop 3.0.1 Release Notes

These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.


  • HADOOP-15027 | Major | AliyunOSS: Support multi-thread pre-read to improve sequential read from Hadoop to Aliyun OSS performance

Support multi-thread pre-read in AliyunOSSInputStream to improve the sequential read performance from Hadoop to Aliyun OSS.


  • HDFS-12528 | Major | Add an option to not disable short-circuit reads on failures

Added an option to not disables short-circuit reads on failures, by setting dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds to 0.


  • HDFS-13083 | Major | RBF: Fix doc error setting up client

Fix the document error of setting up HFDS Router Federation


  • HDFS-12990 | Critical | Change default NameNode RPC port back to 8020

HDFS NameNode default RPC port is changed back to 8020. The only official release that has this differently is 3.0.0, which used 9820.

It is recommended for 2.x users to upgrade to 3.0.1+, to reduce the burden on changing default NN RPC port.