On Friday 14 Oct, the Hadoop community voted ten to zero (including four PMC
members voting in favor) to accept the release of Hadoop 0.20.205.0.

The biggest feature of this release is that it merges the
append/hsync/hflush features of branch-0.20-append, and security features of
branch-0.20-security.  Therefore, this is the first official Apache Hadoop
release that supports HBase in secure mode!

Thanks to everyone who contributed bug fixes, merges, and improvements.  It
was truly a community effort.

Best regards,
--Matt (Release Manager)

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Matt Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 14 Oct, the Hadoop community voted ten to zero (including four PMC
> members voting in favor) to accept the release of Hadoop 0.20.205.0.

Once we pulled this release into Bigtop the first thing we discovered was
that datanode can't be started out-of-the-box because of the infamous:
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1943

I'm a little bit surprised it didn't get caught during your testing
since it shows
up right away. Given that its really annoying I'm wondering whether it
can be patched somehow in a .1 fixup perhaps?

Second thing was an unfortunate placement of the task-controller binary
that prevents having multiple arcs installed on the same machine. Other
than that -- looks good so far.

Thanks,
Roman.