* Distributed version of xgboost that runs on YARN, scales to billions of examples
* Direct save/load data and model from/to S3 and HDFS
* Feature importance visualization in R module, by Michael Benesty
* Predict leaf index
* Poisson regression for counts data
* Early stopping option in training
* Native save load support in R and python
- xgboost models now can be saved using save/load in R
- xgboost python model is now pickable
* sklearn wrapper is supported in python module
* Experimental External memory version