question Re: Ambari release versioning in Support Questions

Ambari release versioning

jyadav — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:04:31 GMT

Hi,

Can somebody explain about Ambari version naming standard?

Re: Ambari release versioning

mjohansson — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:39:51 GMT

Hi @Jitendra,

Please have a look at http://hadoop.apache.org/versioning.html - It cover Ambari as well.

/Best regards, Mats

Re: Ambari release versioning

jyadav — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:56:45 GMT

Thanks @Mats Johansson so as per doc (<major>.<minor>.<maintenance> ) if I'm using Ambari 2.2.1 and want to upgrade to 2.2.2 then that will be a maintenance release upgrade with no new feature addition, right?.

Re: Ambari release versioning

cstanca — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 03:33:41 GMT

@Jitendra Yadav

Correct. That is a maintenance release dealing with bugs associated with features that already part of the release.

Re: Ambari release versioning

jyadav — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 03:47:25 GMT

Thanks @Constantin Stanca But wondering why Ambari 2.2.2 has new feature (Grafana) even it was a maintainence release.

Re: Ambari release versioning

cstanca — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 06:35:08 GMT

@Jitendra Yadav

Good question. It shouldn't. Occasionally, a feature may slip in. As long as it is not a major change, it is probably something tolerated. It could be also a Tech Preview which is probably the case with Grafana and that is probably fine. Did that feature break an existent functionality?

Re: Ambari release versioning

jeff1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:39:50 GMT

Correct, if the change is non-destructive, it will be considered for a maint. release. But I should point out that the community tries to minimize this though. Cheers.