Apache Hadoop 0.17.1 Release Notes

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


  • HADOOP-3565 | Major | JavaSerialization can throw java.io.StreamCorruptedException

Change the Java serialization framework, which is not enabled by default, to correctly make the objects independent of the previous objects.


  • HADOOP-1979 | Minor | fsck on namenode without datanodes takes too much time

Improved performance of {{fsck}} by better management of the data stream on the client side.