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<h3 id="fixes">Fixes</h3>
<p>Spark 1.2.1 contains bug fixes in several components. Some of the more important fixes are highlighted below. You can visit the <a href="http://s.apache.org/Mpn">Spark issue tracker</a> for the full list of fixes.</p>

<h4 id="security">Security</h4>
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  <li>Locks down file permissions for temporary file storage</li>
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<h4 id="spark-core">Spark Core</h4>
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  <li>Netty shuffle ignores spark.blockManager.port (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4837">SPARK-4837</a>)</li>
  <li>MetricsServlet does not initialize properly (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4595">SPARK-4595</a>)</li>
  <li>Repl and YARN dependencies are not published to Maven (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5289">SPARK-5289</a>)</li>
  <li>SparkConf is not thread safe (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5355">SPARK-5355</a>)</li>
  <li>Byte code errors when linking against Spark (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2075">SPARK-2075</a>)</li>
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<h4 id="sql">SQL</h4>
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  <li>CACHE TABLE AS SELECT fails with Hive UDFs (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5187">SPARK-5187</a>)</li>
  <li>Attributes are case sensitive when using a select query from a projection (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4959">SPARK-4959</a>)</li>
  <li>Spark SQL built for Hive 13 fails under concurrent metadata queries (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4908">SPARK-4908</a>)</li>
  <li>Throw &#8220;Expression not in GROUP BY&#8221; when using same expression in group by clause and select clause (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4296">SPARK-4296</a>)</li>
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  <li>Proper file clean up for write ahead logs (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5147">SPARK-5147</a>)</li>
  <li>Error with existing files during checkpoint recovery (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4835">SPARK-4835</a>)</li>
  <li>Socket Receiver does not stop when streaming context is stopped (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2892">SPARK-2892</a>)</li>
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  <li>Parallelizing lists or arrays is slow (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5224">SPARK-5224</a>)</li>
  <li>Serializer bug when using zip (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4841">SPARK-4841</a>)</li>
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<h3 id="contributors">Contributors</h3>
<p>The following developers contributed to this release:</p>

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  <li>Aaron Davidson &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Alex Liu &#8211; Improvements in Core and SQL; bug fixes in SQL</li>
  <li>Andrew Ash &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Andrew Or &#8211; Improvements in Core and YARN; bug fixes in Core and YARN</li>
  <li>Bilna &#8211; Test in Streaming</li>
  <li>Brennon York &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Cheng Hao &#8211; Bug fixes in Core and SQL</li>
  <li>Cheng Lian &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Christophe Preaud &#8211; Improvements in Core</li>
  <li>Dale Richardson &#8211; Improvement in Core</li>
  <li>Davies Liu &#8211; Bug fixes in Core, MLlib, and PySpark</li>
  <li>Derek Ma &#8211; Bug fixes in Shuffle</li>
  <li>Earne &#8211; Improvements in Core and GraphX</li>
  <li>GuoQiang Li &#8211; Bug fixes in Core and YARN</li>
  <li>Hari Shreedharan &#8211; Bug fixes in Streaming</li>
  <li>Ilayaperumal Gopinathan &#8211; Bug fixes in Streaming</li>
  <li>Ilya Ganelin &#8211; Bug fixes in Core and Shuffle</li>
  <li>Jacek Lewandowski &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Jeremy Freeman &#8211; Bug fixes in MLlib and PySpark</li>
  <li>Jongyoul Lee &#8211; Documentation in Streaming; bug fixes in Core and Mesos</li>
  <li>Joseph K. Bradley &#8211; Bug fixes in Core, MLlib, and PySpark</li>
  <li>Josh Rosen &#8211; Improvements in Core and SQL; new features in Core; bug fixes in Streaming and PySpark</li>
  <li>Kanwaljit Singh &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Kenji Kikushima &#8211; Bug fixes in GraphX</li>
  <li>Kousuke Saruta &#8211; Bug fixes in Core and Web UI</li>
  <li>Lianhui Wang &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Madhu Siddalingaiah &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Marcelo Vanzin &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Michael Armbrust &#8211; Improvements in Core; bug fixes in SQL</li>
  <li>Michael Davies &#8211; Improvements in SQL</li>
  <li>Nan Zhu &#8211; Improvements and bug fixes in Streaming</li>
  <li>Nathan Kronenfeld &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Nicholas Chammas &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Patrick Wendell &#8211; Improvements and documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Peter Klipfel &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Peter Vandenabeele &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Ryan Williams &#8211; Improvements, bug fixes, and documentation in Core</li>
  <li>SaintBacchus &#8211; Bug fixes in Core and YARN</li>
  <li>Saisai Shao &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Saisai Shao &#8211; Improvements in Streaming; bug fixes in Streaming and SQL; improvement in Streaming</li>
  <li>Sandy Ryza &#8211; Improvements in Core</li>
  <li>Sean Owen &#8211; Improvements in Core; wish in Core; documentation in Core; bug fixes in Java API, Core, and SQL</li>
  <li>Shixiong Zhu &#8211; Improvements in Streaming and Shuffle; bug fixes in Core and Streaming; documentation in Core and YARN</li>
  <li>Su Yan &#8211; Improvements in Core; bug fixes in Core and Web UI</li>
  <li>Takeshi Yamamuro &#8211; Improvements and bug fixes in GraphX</li>
  <li>Tathagata Das &#8211; Improvements and improvement in Streaming</li>
  <li>Timothy Chen &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Tingjun Xu &#8211; Bug fixes in YARN</li>
  <li>Tsuyoshi Ozawa &#8211; Documentation in Core and YARN</li>
  <li>UncleGen &#8211; Improvements in Web UI; bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Venkata Ramana Gollamudi &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Wang Tao &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Xiangrui Meng &#8211; Documentation in MLlib</li>
  <li>Xiaohua Yi &#8211; Bug fixes in SQL</li>
  <li>Xiaojing Wang &#8211; Documentation in Core</li>
  <li>Yash Datta &#8211; Bug fixes in SQL</li>
  <li>Ye Xianjin &#8211; Bug fixes in Core</li>
  <li>Yuhao Yang &#8211; Improvements and bug fixes in MLlib</li>
  <li>Zhang, Liye &#8211; Improvements in Web UI</li>
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<p><em>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</em></p>



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