HDP 2.6/Ambari 2.5 GA!

[#1]

HDP 2.6/Ambari 2.5 GA! Now available!

Key HDP 2.6 and Ambari 2.5 offerings:

• Hive LLAP
• Spark 2.1
• Ambari Views Workflow Manager
• Ambari Views Hue-to-View Migration Tool
• Apache Phoenix and HBase Storage Quota Support
• Apache Ranger
  • Policy Import/Export
  • Macros/shortcuts in policy authoring
  • Performance enhancements for policy execution
  • Policy Sync status pages
• Apache Atlas
  • Improved metadata catalog search experience
  • Improved Lineage and Impact analysis user experience
  • Tag based policies for Kafka, HDFS, HBase
  • Manual entity create/update
  • New V2 API which significantly improve consumability, extensibility and partner integrations
  • Numerous performance and scalability improvements
• Apache Ambari Service Auto-start
• SmartSense Recommendations in Apache Ambari
• Ambari Views: File Browser: Display files inside an S3 bucket
• Apache HDFS
  • Device Behavior Analytics
  • Generation 1 Garbage Collector (Technical Preview)
• Apache YARN
  • Queue Priorities
  • Enhanced Fault Tolerance, Diagnostics & Log Collection

Supported Platforms: Centos 6/7/ppc, SLES 11/12, Debian 6/7, Ubuntu 12/14/16

Release Notes: HDP, Ambari, SmartSense

[#2]

@smalhotra The link to the HDP release notes doesn't work.

[#3]

You can try HDP 2.6 and Ambari 2.5 in HDCLoud for AWS 1.14.1. Get started here.

[#4]

Yes, I missed that. Here is the link to the HDP Release Notes: http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.0/bk_release-notes/content/ch_relnotes.html

[#5]

You can also edit the article and add the link there 🙂

[#6]

Thanks. Have updated it now.

[#7]

Debian 8 (Jessie) has been made current stable version for a year now. When do you plan to support it? Is there any known issue that blocks its adoption?

[#8]

Hi Miles: Debian 8 is certainly on our table for support. Current plan is to roll it out with HDP 3.0, sometime early 2018.