All, I have created a release candidate (rc0) for hadoop-2.0.5-alpha that I would like to release.
This is a stabilization release that includes fixed for a couple a of issues discovered in the testing with BigTop 0.6.0 release candidate. The RC is available at: http://people.apache.org/~cos/hadoop-2.0.5-alpha-rc0/ The RC tag in svn is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/tags/release-2.0.5-alpha-rc0 The maven artifacts will be available via repository.apache.org on Sat, June 1st, 2013 at 2 pm PDT as outlined here http://s.apache.org/WKD Please try the release bits and vote; the vote will run for the 3 days, because this is just a version name change. The bits are identical to the ones voted on before in http://s.apache.org/2041move Thanks for your voting Cos