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News
5 May, 2006: release 0.2.0 available
We are now aiming for monthly releases. There have been many bug fixes and improvements in the past month. MapReduce and DFS are now fairly reliable on clusters with up to 200 nodes. See the change log for details. The release can be obtained from a nearby mirror.
2 April, 2006: release 0.1.0 available
This is the first Hadoop release. The release is available here.
6 February, 2006: nightly builds
Hadoop now has nightly builds. This automatically creates a downloadable version of Hadoop every night. All unit tests must pass, or a message is sent to the developers mailing list and no new version is created. This also updates the javadoc.
3 February, 2006: Hadoop code moved out of Nutch
The Hadoop code has now been moved into its own Subversion tree, renamed into packages under org.apache.hadoop. All unit tests pass, but little else has yet been tested.
30 March, 2006: Hadoop project approved
The Lucene PMC has elected to split the Nutch MapReduce and distributed filesytem code into a new project named Hadoop.