We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 GA release.

The most important changes/enhancements in the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 version are:

• Remove support for running with JDK 6, Java 7 or later is now required
• Improvements to the HDFS writer to support syncable writes and a new timeout option
• Improvements in the HBase support - adding PUT and DELETE to HbaseTemplate
• Add support for Pivotal HD 3.0
• Update Cloudera CDH 5 to use version 5.3.3
• Update Hortonworks HDP 2.2 version to 2.2.4.0
• Update Kite SDK to version 1.0
• Update Spring project versions to the latest

We continue to provide version specific artifacts with their respective transitive dependencies in the Spring IO milestone repository:

• 2.2.0.RELEASE (default - Apache Hadoop stable 2.6.0)
• 2.2.0.RELEASE-phd21 (Pivotal HD 2.1)
• 2.2.0.RELEASE-phd30 (Pivotal HD 3.0)
• 2.2.0.RELEASE-cdh5 (Cloudera CDH5)
• 2.2.0.RELEASE-hdp22 (Hortonworks HDP 2.2)

Please provide feedback so we can prioritize the work on new features scheduled for 2.3 (see previous blog post for a list) and any additional feature requests. You can use JIRA issues or GitHub issues (see project page for links).

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