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 Apache Tez Change Log
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-Release 0.5.4: Unreleased
+Release 0.5.4: 2015-05-11
 
 ALL CHANGES:
   TEZ-2369. Add a few unit tests for RootInputInitializerManager. Backport a findbugs warning fix from master.