Alluxio 2.0.0 Release

[Calvin Jia]

Dear Alluxio users and developers,

I'm super excited to announce the release of Alluxio 2.0.0, the biggest Alluxio release to date. Download the release today! 

Alluxio 2.0.0 is a major release which introduces many new features and system improvements which was previewed earlier in March as Alluxio 2.0.0-preview.

Some highlights include

• Native Support for AI & ML Workloads with Alluxio POSIX API
  
• Support of Billions of Files with RocksDB Off Heap Metadata Management
  
• Unified Data & Control Plane with gRPC
  
• Ease of HA Deployment with RAFT based Embedded Journal
  
• Built in Data Services
• Better Configuration Controls with Path Level Configuration
  
• ... and much more!

For a more detailed summary of the release, see the release notes or the documentation for more info.

A huge thanks to the Alluxio community and everyone who contributed to the release and/or tested the release candidates.

Cheers,

Calvin