Cloudera Enterprise 5.6.1 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.6.1 (CDH 5.6.1, Cloudera Manager 5.6.1, and Cloudera Navigator 2.5.1).  

This release fixes key bugs and includes the following:

• CDH fixes for the following issues:

• FSImage may get corrupted after deleting snapshot

• The ReplicationCleaner process can abort if its connection to ZooKeeper is inconsistent

• FLUME-2886 - Optional Channels can cause OOMs

• HADOOP-12604 - Exception may be swallowed in KMSClientProvider

• HADOOP-12718 - Incorrect error message by fs -put local dir without permission

• MAPREDUCE-6528 - Memory leak for HistoryFileManager.getJobSummary()

• HIVE-12790 - Metastore connection leaks in HiveServer2

• IMPALA-2711 - Fix memory leak in Rand()

• IMPALA-2820 - Support unquoted keywords as struct-field names

• SENTRY-835 - Drop table leaves a connection open when using metastorelistener
  
  

For a full list of upstream JIRAs fixed in CDH 5.6.1, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.

• Cloudera Manager fixes for the following issues:

• Scheme and location not filled in consistently during Hive replication import
• Cloudera Manager HDFS usage reports do not include Inode references
• Kafka MirrorMaker unable to start due to KAFKA_HOME not being set
• kt_renewer not automatically created when Hue is added to a Kerberos-enabled cluster
• Authentication errors occur due to missing SAML metadata

For a full list of issues fixed in Cloudera Manager 5.6.1, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.

We look forward to you trying it, using the information below:

• Download Cloudera Enterprise

• View the documentation

As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group or through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external JIRA projects on issues.cloudera.org.