2017-02-03

3.0.0-alpha2 was released last week, onward to alpha3!

Notable release blockers:

• Since alpha3 is planned as the last alpha before beta, the goal is to be feature complete by alpha3. beta1 can be used to stage any remaining incompatible changes, or nice-to-have feature-related work.
• No other release blockers are filed.

alpha3 features:

• Erasure coding
  
  • All must-do JIRAs are now marked as blockers for alpha3, goal is for EC to be feature complete and API stable by alpha3.
  • Light development activity. Andrew did some reviews, Manoj is working on OIV improvements.
• Tomcat to Jetty conversions
  
  • HDFS-10860 (HttpFS): Patch has gone through multiple revs and has a +1 pending from Xiao

beta1 features:

• Addressing incompatible changes
  • YARN-6142 (compatibility with 2.x): Tracking JIRA filed and assigned to Ray
  • HDFS-11096 (compatibility with 2.x): Nothing further pending on this JIRA, but would like automated test runs setup to catch future breakages.
• Classpath isolation (HADOOP-11656)
  • Andrew has asked Sean for an ETA on completing the remaining subtasks, ideally by alpha3 but latest beta1

2017-01-19

branch-3.0.0-alpha2 has been created in git. Still on track for planned alpha2 release at the end of January.

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