Announcing Beta Release of Apache Hadoop 2 by Arun Murthy.
From the post:
It’s my great pleasure to announce that the Apache Hadoop community has declared Hadoop 2.x as Beta with the vote closing over the weekend for the hadoop-2.1.0-beta release.
As noted in the announcement to the mailing lists, this is a significant milestone across multiple dimensions: not only is the release chock-full of significant features (see below), it also represents a very stable set of APIs and protocols on which we can continue to build for the future. In particular, the Apache Hadoop community has spent an enormous amount of time paying attention to stability and long-term viability of our APIs and wire protocols for both HDFS and YARN. This is very important as we’ve already seen a huge interest in other frameworks (open-source and proprietary) move atop YARN to process data and run services *in* Hadoop.
It is always nice to start the week with something new.
Your next four steps:
- Download and install Hadoop 2.
- Experiment with and use Hadoop 2.
- Look for and report bugs (and fixes if possible) for Hadoop 2.
- Enjoy!