hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/release/1.0.0/RELEASENOTES.1.0.0.md
These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
New DFSClient.create(...) allows option of not creating missing parent(s).
Enable task memory management to be configurable via hadoop config setup script.
Fixed security audit logger configuration. (Arpit Gupta via Eric Yang)
Docs version number is now automatically updated by reference to the build number.
Provide WebHDFS as a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP. Previous hftp feature was a read-only FileSystem and does not provide "write" accesses.