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The GBIF Secretariat is proud to release version 2.0.5 of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), available for download on the project website  here . As with every release, it's your chance to take advantage of the most requested feature enhancements and bug fixes. The most notable feature enhancements include: A resource can now be configured to publish automatically on an interval  (See " Automated Publishing " section in User Manual) The interface has been translated into Portuguese,  making the IPT available in five languages: French, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese and of course English. An IPT can be configured to back up each DwC-Archive version published (See " Archival Mode " in User Manual) Each resource version now has a resolvable URL (See " Versioned Page " section in User Manual) Filterable, pageable, and sortable resource overview table in v2.0.5 The order of columns in published DwC-Archives is always the same between versio...

We've written a number of times on the initial setup , eventual upgrade and continued tuning of our hadoop cluster. Our latest project has been upgrading from CDH3u3 to CDH4.2.1 . Upgrades are almost always disruptive, but we decided it was worth the hassle for a number of reasons: general performance improvements in the entire Hadoop/HBase stack continued support from the community/user list (a non-trivial concern - anybody asking questions on the user groups and mailing list about problems with older clusters are invariably asked to update before people are interested in tackling the problem) multi-threaded compactions (the need for which we concluded in this post ) table-based region balancing (rather than just cluster-wide) We had been managing our cluster primarily using Puppet, with all the knowledge of how the bits worked together firmly within our dev team. In an effort to make everyone's lives easier, reduce our  bus factor , and get the server management back into t...