+1 (non-binding) Download and compile the source code, run several MR jobs.
Xuan Gong > On Sep 16, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > After a nearly month long [1] toil, with loads of help from Sangjin Lee and > Akira Ajisaka, and 153 (RC0)+7(RC1) commits later, I've created a release > candidate RC1 for hadoop-2.6.1. > > RC1 is RC0 [0] (for which I opened and closed a vote last week) + UI fixes > for the issue Sangjin raised (YARN-3171 and the dependencies YARN-3779, > YARN-3248), additional fix to avoid incompatibility (YARN-3740), other UI > bugs (YARN-1884, YARN-3544) and the MiniYARNCluster issue (right patch for > YARN-2890) that Jeff Zhang raised. > > The RC is available at: http://people.apache.org/~vinodkv/hadoop-2.6.1-RC1/ > > The RC tag in git is: release-2.6.1-RC1 > > The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org at > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1021 > > Some notes from our release process > - - Sangjin and I moved out a bunch of items pending from 2.6.1 [2] - > non-committed but desired patches. 2.6.1 is already big as is and is late > by any standard, we can definitely include them in the next release. > - The 2.6.1 wiki page [3] captures some (but not all) of the context of > the patches that we pushed in. > - Given the number of fixes pushed [4] in, we had to make a bunch of > changes to our original plan - we added a few improvements that helped us > backport patches easier (or in many cases made backports possible), and we > dropped a few that didn't make sense (HDFS-7831, HDFS-7926, HDFS-7676, > HDFS-7611, HDFS-7843, HDFS-8850). > - I ran all the unit tests which (surprisingly?) passed. (Except for one, > which pointed out a missing fix HDFS-7552). > > As discussed before [5] > - This release is the first point release after 2.6.0 > - I’d like to use this as a starting release for 2.6.2 in a few weeks and > then follow up with more of these. > > Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 days. > > Thanks, > Vinod > > [0] Hadoop 2.6.1 RC0 vote: http://markmail.org/thread/ubut2rn3lodc55iy > [1] Hadoop 2.6.1 Release process thread: > http://markmail.org/thread/wkbgkxkhntx5tlux > [2] 2.6.1 Pending tickets: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12331711 > [3] 2.6.1 Wiki page: https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Release-2.6.1 > -Working-Notes > [4] List of 2.6.1 patches pushed: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=fixVersion%20%3D%202.6.1 > %20and%20labels%20%3D%20%222.6.1-candidate%22 > [5] Planning Hadoop 2.6.1 release: > http://markmail.org/thread/sbykjn5xgnksh6wg > > PS: > - Note that branch-2.6 which will be the base for 2.6.2 doesn't have these > fixes yet. Once 2.6.1 goes through, I plan to rebase branch-2.6 based off > 2.6.1. > - The additional patches in RC1 that got into 2.6.1 all the way from 2.8 > are NOT in 2.7.2 yet, this will be done as a followup.
