Next in the 0.95 "Development" Series of releases. Serves as "rough cut" preview of what is coming in 0.96 which is known as the "Singularity", because you will have to start and stop your cluster bringing it up on 0.96.0. 0.96.0 will require Hadoop 1.0.0 at least. It will be supported on Hadoop 2.0.0 too. 0.96.0 will be all protobufs all the time; all of its serializations to zookeeper, to the filesystem, and over rpc will be protobufs. It runs on jdk7. Metrics will be edited and converted to use Hadoop Metrics2. A preview of HBase Snapshots and PrefixTreeCompression,Show more