Hello, can anybody explain Hadoop's release policy to me? Apparently 2.8.2 is now the "stable" version, but this relatively recent branch seems now dead already with 2.9.0 coming out and "fixing 790 bugs" of 2.8.2 that apparently remain unfixed in the 2.8.x branch - yet it is not tagged as "stable". Going back, 2.8 and 2.9 seem to have branched from 2.7.3, which has however during the summer also received an update to 2.7.4. So are those backported fixes, or is somebody independently still maintaining 2.7.x, making it the real "stable" branch? And how does 3.x, which has recently moved into beta, relate to 2.9.x, which, not being tagged "stable", is also something like a beta version?
Many thanks Rupert
