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title: Spark 0.8.1 released
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We've just posted Spark Release 0.8.1, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.