Thanks, testing in progress here's the windows native binaries to go with it, all signed
https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils/releases/tag/hadoop-2.8.0-RC3 The gnu shell commands which came with git worked well here, and the build went through fast, nice to see Test results to follow On 17 Mar 2017, at 09:18, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com<mailto:j...@hortonworks.com>> wrote: Hi all, With fix of HDFS-11431 get in, I've created a new release candidate (RC3) for Apache Hadoop 2.8.0. This is the next minor release to follow up 2.7.0 which has been released for more than 1 year. It comprises 2,900+ fixes, improvements, and new features. Most of these commits are released for the first time in branch-2. More information about the 2.8.0 release plan can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+2.8+Release New RC is available at: http://home.apache.org/~junping_du/hadoop-2.8.0-RC3 The RC tag in git is: release-2.8.0-RC3, and the latest commit id is: 91f2b7a13d1e97be65db92ddabc627cc29ac0009 The maven artifacts are available via repository.apache.org<http://repository.apache.org> at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1057 Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 5 days, ending on 03/22/2017 PDT time. Thanks, Junping