Apache Hadoop Changelog

Release 0.24.0 - Unreleased (as of 2016-03-04)

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7547	Fix the warning in writable classes.[ WritableComparable is a raw type. References to generic type WritableComparable<T> should be parameterized ]	Minor	io	Uma Maheswara Rao G	Uma Maheswara Rao G
HADOOP-7507	jvm metrics all use the same namespace	Major	metrics	Jeff Bean	Alejandro Abdelnur

IMPORTANT ISSUES:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor

NEW FEATURES:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7705	Add a log4j back end that can push out JSON data, one per line	Minor	util	Steve Loughran	Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7594	Support HTTP REST in HttpServer	Major	.	Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze	Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze

IMPROVEMENTS:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7772	javadoc the topology classes	Trivial	.	Steve Loughran	Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7763	Add top-level navigation to APT docs	Major	documentation	Tom White	Tom White
HADOOP-7743	Add Maven profile to create a full source tarball	Major	build	Alejandro Abdelnur	Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7737	normalize hadoop-mapreduce & hadoop-dist dist/tar build with common/hdfs	Major	build	Alejandro Abdelnur	Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7668	Add a NetUtils method that can tell if an InetAddress belongs to local host	Minor	util	Suresh Srinivas	Steve Loughran
HADOOP-7642	create hadoop-dist module where TAR stitching would happen	Major	build	Alejandro Abdelnur	Tom White
HADOOP-7595	Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3	Major	build	Alejandro Abdelnur	Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7509	Improve message when Authentication is required	Trivial	.	Ravi Prakash	Ravi Prakash
HADOOP-7360	FsShell does not preserve relative paths with globs	Major	fs	Daryn Sharp	Kihwal Lee

BUG FIXES:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7782	Aggregate project javadocs	Critical	build	Arun C Murthy	Tom White
HADOOP-7778	FindBugs warning in Token.getKind()	Major	.	Tom White	Tom White
HADOOP-7771	NPE when running hdfs dfs -copyToLocal, -get etc	Blocker	.	John George	John George
HADOOP-7766	The auth to local mappings are not being respected, with webhdfs and security enabled.	Major	.	Jitendra Nath Pandey	Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7745	I switched variable names in HADOOP-7509	Major	.	Ravi Prakash	Ravi Prakash
HADOOP-7728	hadoop-setup-conf.sh should be modified to enable task memory manager	Major	conf	Ramya Sunil	Ramya Sunil
HADOOP-7721	dfs.web.authentication.kerberos.principal expects the full hostname and does not replace _HOST with the hostname	Major	.	Arpit Gupta	Jitendra Nath Pandey
HADOOP-7663	TestHDFSTrash failing on 22	Major	test	Mayank Bansal	Mayank Bansal
HADOOP-7608	SnappyCodec check for Hadoop native lib is wrong	Major	io	Alejandro Abdelnur	Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7606	Upgrade Jackson to version 1.7.1 to match the version required by Jersey	Major	test	Aaron T. Myers	Alejandro Abdelnur
HADOOP-7599	Improve hadoop setup conf script to setup secure Hadoop cluster	Major	scripts	Eric Yang	Eric Yang
HADOOP-7593	AssertionError in TestHttpServer.testMaxThreads()	Major	test	Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze	Uma Maheswara Rao G
HADOOP-7589	Prefer mvn test -DskipTests over mvn compile in test-patch.sh	Major	build	Robert Joseph Evans	Robert Joseph Evans
HADOOP-7576	Fix findbugs warnings in Hadoop Auth (Alfredo)	Major	security	Tom White	Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
HADOOP-7568	SequenceFile should not print into stdout	Major	io	Konstantin Shvachko	Plamen Jeliazkov

TESTS:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor

SUB-TASKS:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7564	Remove test-patch SVN externals	Major	.	Tom White	Tom White
HADOOP-7469	add a standard handler for socket connection problems which improves diagnostics	Minor	util	Steve Loughran	Steve Loughran

OTHER:

JIRA	Summary	Priority	Component	Reporter	Contributor
HADOOP-7579	Rename package names from alfredo to auth	Major	security	Alejandro Abdelnur	Alejandro Abdelnur