[1][2][3] It was created by Austin Appleby in 2008[4] and, as of 8 January 2016,[5] is hosted on GitHub along with its test suite named SMHasher.
The person who originally found the flaw[clarification needed] in MurmurHash2 created an unofficial 160-bit version of MurmurHash2 called MurmurHash2_160.
The canonical implementation is in C++, but there are efficient ports for a variety of popular languages, including Python,[14] C,[15] Go,[16] C#,[13][17] D,[18] Lua, Perl,[19] Ruby,[20] Rust,[21] PHP,[22][23] Common Lisp,[24] Haskell,[25] Elm,[26] Clojure,[27] Scala,[28] Java,[29][30] Erlang,[31] Swift,[32] Object Pascal,[33] Kotlin,[34] JavaScript,[35] and OCaml.
[36] It has been adopted into a number of open-source projects, most notably libstdc++ (ver 4.6), nginx (ver 1.0.1),[37] Rubinius,[38] libmemcached (the C driver for Memcached),[39] npm (nodejs package manager),[40] maatkit,[41] Hadoop,[1] Kyoto Cabinet,[42] Cassandra,[43][44] Solr,[45] vowpal wabbit,[46] Elasticsearch,[47] Guava,[48] Kafka,[49] and RedHat Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO).
Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Daniel J. Bernstein were able to show that even implementations of MurmurHash using a randomized seed are vulnerable to so-called HashDoS attacks.