I have built a release candidate (RC0) for Hadoop-Thirdparty 1.4.0. The RC is available at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hadoop/hadoop-thirdparty-1.4.0-RC0/
The git tag is release-1.4.0-RC0, and commit 5595f1357eaad02e1cfb660bcce7fd34515197ff The maven artifacts are staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehadoop-1433 Please try the release and vote. The vote will run for 5 days. I will vote once I've done more of the testing myself steve
