The Apache Hadoop project announced the release of 3.0.0-alpha2 on January 25th, 2017. This is the second alpha release in the 3.0.0 release series leading up to 3.0.0 GA, and incorporates 857 new fixes, improvements, and features since 3.0.0-alpha1 last September. It’s worth reading our previous blog post about 3.0.0-alpha1; in this post, we’ll discuss the new improvements that landed in alpha2.
Classpath Isolation for Hadoop Client Jars
The pain of classpath isolation has been experienced by many Java developers.