We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.4 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and enhancements to the HDFS writers and partitioning features. We have also added support for Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 and Cloudera CDH has been updated to version 5.2.0. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository:

• 2.0.4.RELEASE - Apache Hadoop 2.2.x [2.2.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hadoop12 - Apache Hadoop 1.2.x [1.2.1]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hadoop24 - Apache Hadoop 2.4.x [2.4.1]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hadoop25 - Apache Hadoop 2.5.x [2.5.1]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hadoop26 - Apache Hadoop 2.6.x [2.6.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-phd1 - Pivotal HD 1.1 [2.0.5-alpha-gphd-2.1.0.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-phd20 - Pivotal HD 2.0 [2.2.0-gphd-3.0.1.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-phd21 - Pivotal HD 2.1 [2.2.0-gphd-3.1.0.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-cdh4 - Cloudera CDH4 MR1 [2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.6.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-cdh5 - Cloudera CDH5 YARN [2.5.0-cdh5.2.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hdp13 - Hortonworks Data Platform 1.3 [1.2.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hdp20 - Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 [2.2.0]
• 2.0.4.RELEASE-hdp21 - Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1 [2.4.0]

We plan on adding support for Hortonworks HDP 2.2 in a future release.

The project page is at - http://projects.spring.io/spring-hadoop/