Alluxio 1.8.0 Release Candidate 2

[Andrew Audibert]

Dear Alluxio developers, 

I'm happy to announce the release candidate (RC2) of Alluxio 1.8.0. This release provides significant usability improvements. Here are some highlights:

• Simplified client configuration
  
• Enhanced metrics
  
• Metadata backup and restore
  

If you are an Alluxio user, you can help us test this release by taking an older version Alluxio workload and running it on this release candidate, then reporting any issues or regressions. Based on your testing, give a "+1" vote in this thread if you are happy with the result; otherwise, please give a "-1",  explain the reason and describe the issues or regressions from 1.7.1 or earlier releases. 

A pre-compiled version can be downloaded from

https://alluxio.org/downloads/files/1.8.0-RC2/alluxio-1.8.0-RC2-bin.tar.gz

Relevant runtime client jars are included in the client folder of the download.

To access the source code, a tag of this release candidate on github can be found at

https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio/tree/v1.8.0-RC2

To use and test this version, please refer to the documentation corresponding to this release candidate:

https://www.alluxio.org/docs/1.8/en/Getting-Started.html

Best,

Andrew