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• If the Hadoop Distribution that you want to use is not listed, visit our 5.1/5.2 and 5.0 pages; a previous version of our software might support older Hadoop Distributions.  Downloads appear there as well.
• You can request that Pentaho develop a shim for a distribution by contacting sales or filling out a Jira ticket or if you are an EE subscription customer, you can contact Pentaho Support.
• You can develop a shim yourself. Check out the Hadoop Configuration page for more information.
  

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MapR users need to do further configuration as described in Additional Configuration for MapR Shims.

CDH 5 users who want to configure CDH 5 to use Map Reduce 1 instead of Map Reduce 2, follow the instructions in Additional Configuration for using MR1 with CDH5.

Future Release Roadmap

The following Hadoop Configurations are planned for post 5.3 delivery.

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