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== Versions

=== History

v0.9.3 2/4/11:: Multi-master functional.  Microsoft Windows support.
Metrics framework including json support. Updated Source/Sink API.
Improved robustness of non-translated agent chains and multiple
logical node configurations.  Updated configuration languages
cconstructs.  Usability improvements.

v0.9.2 11/15/10:: Support for all Hadoop supported compression codecs.
Avro RPC support.  Flexible throughput throttling.  Useful error
messages in shell. Upgrades to Thrift RPC support.  Performance and
robustness improvements in tail and exec.

v0.9.1u1 10/12/10:: Added write support for Kerberized HDFS. Flume
cookbook.

v0.9.1 8/9/10:: Improved error messages and visibility of property
configuration values.  First external contributions.  Fixed
reconfiguration hangs.  Improved implementing plugins documentation.
Updated scribe and syslog support.  Compression on output files.

v0.9 6/29/10 :: metrics and reporting framework, logical nodes+logical
names abstraction, wal/dfo isolation by flow, transformation-based
high level sinks.  Open source and initial push to github.

v0.3 3/31/10 :: ZK based master/multi-master, automatic failovers for
data and control planes.  flume shell. deb/rpm packaging.

v0.2 1/21/10 :: Different reliability modes: WAL 2.0, DFO, Best
effort. Output file escaping/bucketing.  Proliferation of many sink
and decorators.

v0.1 11/23/09 :: First installation deployment, users tests.

v0.0 9/21/09 :: First cut with current architecture (centralized
master, configuration language, web interface.)  First version of WAL.
Simple visualizations, samplers, thrift based rpc.

pre history 7/21/09 :: First commit.  design, experimental
implementations.  Initial implementation had individual agent and
collector programs, watchdog