Apache Hadoop 0.23.7 Release Notes

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

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• HADOOP-9147 | Trivial | Add missing fields to FIleStatus.toString

Update FileStatus.toString to include missing fields

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• HDFS-395 | Major | DFS Scalability: Incremental block reports

WARNING: No release note provided for this incompatible change.

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• MAPREDUCE-4637 | Major | Killing an unassigned task attempt causes the job to fail

Handle TaskAttempt diagnostic updates while in the NEW and UNASSIGNED states.