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<a href="#26+November%2C+2007%3A+release+0.14.4+available">26 November, 2007: release 0.14.4 available </a>
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<a href="#8+June%2C+2006%3A"> 8 June, 2006: FAQ added to Wiki </a>
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<h3 class="h4">26 November, 2007: release 0.14.4 available </h3>
<p>This release fixes critical bugs in release 0.14.3.</p>
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<h3 class="h4">19 October, 2007: release 0.14.3 available </h3>
<p>This release fixes critical bugs in release 0.14.2.</p>
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<h3 class="h4"> 9 October, 2007: release 0.14.2 available </h3>
<p>This release fixes critical bugs in release 0.14.1.</p>
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<h3 class="h4"> 4 September, 2007: release 0.14.1 available </h3>
<p>New features in release 0.14 include:</p>
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<li>Better checksums in HDFS. Checksums are no longer
stored in parallel HDFS files, but are stored directly by
datanodes alongside blocks. This is more efficient for the
namenode and also improves data integrity.</li>
<li>Pipes: A C++ API for MapReduce</li>
<li>Eclipse Plugin, including HDFS browsing, job
monitoring, etc.</li>
<li>File modification times in HDFS.</li>
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<p>There are many other improvements, bug fixes, optimizations
and new features. Performance and reliability are better than
ever.</p>
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<div class="content">When upgrading an existing HDFS filesystem to a 0.14.x
release from a 0.13.x or earlier release, you should first
start HDFS with 'bin/start-dfs.sh -upgrade'. See the <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/Hadoop_0.14_Upgrade">Hadoop
0.14 Upgrade</a> page for details.</div>
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<h3 class="h4">25 July, 2007: release 0.13.1 available</h3>
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In addition to new features, release 0.13 contains significant
performance and reliability improvements. For example,
MapReduce sort performance on large clusters has <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop-data/attachments/FAQ/attachments/sort900-20070607.png">doubled</a>.
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When upgrading an existing <acronym title="Hadoop Distributed File System">HDFS</acronym> filesystem to this release, you
should first start HDFS with <span class="codefrag">bin/start-dfs.sh
-upgrade</span>. See the <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/Hadoop_Upgrade">Hadoop
Upgrade</a> page for details. </div>
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<h3 class="h4"> 8 June, 2006: FAQ added to Wiki </h3>
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Hadoop now has a <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/FAQ">FAQ</a>. Please help make this more complete!
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