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# Apache Hadoop  0.23.7 Release Notes

These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.


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* [HDFS-395](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-395) | *Major* | **DFS Scalability: Incremental block reports**

**WARNING: No release note provided for this change.**


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* [MAPREDUCE-4637](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4637) | *Major* | **Killing an unassigned task attempt causes the job to fail**

Handle TaskAttempt diagnostic updates while in the NEW and UNASSIGNED states.


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* [HADOOP-9147](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9147) | *Trivial* | **Add missing fields to FIleStatus.toString**

Update FileStatus.toString to include missing fields



