2016-12-09

Notable release blockers:

• HADOOP-13780: L&N updates from Jetty bump. Xiao has picked this up, no patch yet though.

Development activity

• Addressing incompatible changes
  • MAPREDUCE-6704: still seems close after examination of Docker issue
  • YARN-5882 (issuing YARN delegation tokens even in insecure deployments): Andrew proposed we revert YARN-4126 to unblock the release while discussion continues
  • YARN-5559: Resolved!
  • YARN-5184: Resolved!
  • HDFS-11096 (compatibility with 2.x): Discussion still underway. Kihwal and Eric worked to resolve HDFS-11207 which reverted some incompatible DN/NN changes that broke rolling upgrade.
• Erasure coding
  • Still slowly burning down must-dos from the JIRA query.
• Classpath isolation (HADOOP-11565)
  • HADOOP-11804 (shaded client jars): Sean added integration tests for WebHDFS and things seem close.
• Tomcat to Jetty conversion (HDFS-11096, HDFS-10860)
  • HDFS-11096 (KMS): patch is under review
  • HDFS-10860 (HttpFS): no patch yet

2016-11-28

Notable release blockers:

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