I'm happy to announce that Hadoop version 1.2.1 has passed its release vote and is now available. It has 18 bug fixes and patches over the previous 1.2.0 release; please see Hadoop 1.2.1 Release Notes<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/releasenotes.html>for details. This release of Hadoop-1.2 is now considered *stable*.
The next set of release work will focus on producing Hadoop-1.3.0, which will include Windows native compatibility. Thank you, --Matt release manager, hadoop-1
