The document summarizes the key changes between the old MapReduce API and the new MapReduce API in Hadoop. Some of the main changes include: - Renaming all "mapred" packages to "mapreduce" - Methods can now throw InterruptedException in addition to IOException - Using Configuration instead of JobConf - Changes to Mapper, Reducer, and RecordReader interfaces and classes - Submitting jobs uses the Job class instead of JobConf and JobClient classes - InputFormats and OutputFormats see changes like new methods and removed classes