Announcing: Cloudera Enterprise 5.1.2 (CDH 5.1.2, Cloudera Manager 5.1.2, Cloudera Navigator 2.0.1) and CDH 5.0.4

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Dear CDH and Cloudera Manager users,

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.1.2 (CDH 5.1.2, Cloudera Manager 5.1.2, Cloudera Navigator 2.0.1) and CDH 5.0.4.

Cloudera Enterprise 5.1.2

This release is focused on fixing key bugs and includes the following.

• CDH Fixes

• FLUME-2438 - Make Syslog source message body configurable
• HBASE-11052 - Sending random data crashes thrift service
• HBASE-11143 - Improve replication metrics
• HBASE-11609 - LoadIncrementalHFiles fails if the namespace is specified
• HDFS-6114 - Block Scan log rolling will never happen if blocks written continuously leading to huge ...
• HDFS-6640 - [ Web HDFS ] Syntax for MKDIRS, CREATESYMLINK, and SETXATTR are given wrongly(missed web...
• HDFS-6703 - NFS: Files can be deleted from a read-only mount
• HDFS-6788 - Improve synchronization in BPOfferService with read write lock
• HDFS-6825 - Edit log corruption due to delayed block removal
• HUE-2211 - [search] Twitter and Jobs example do not load properly
• HUE-2223 - [beeswax] Bigints are rounded on result tab
• HUE-2232 - [search] Examples don't install with MySql
• HIVE-5515 - Writing to an HBase table throws IllegalArgumentException, failing job submission
• HIVE-6495 - TableDesc.getDeserializer() should use correct classloader when calling Class.forName()
• HIVE-7450 - Database should inherit perms of warehouse dir
• IMPALA-1093 - Impalad catalog updates can fail with error: "IllegalArgumentException: fromKey out of range" at com...
• IMPALA-1107 - Update HS2 client API.
• IMPALA-1131 - "Total" time counter does not capture all the network transmit time
• IMPALA-1142 - Support specifying a custom AuthorizationProvider in Impala
• IMPALA-1149 - Impala will crash when reading certain Avro files containing bytes data
• MAPREDUCE-5966 - MR1 FairScheduler use of custom weight adjuster is not thread safe for comparisons
• MAPREDUCE-5979 - FairScheduler: zero weight can cause sort failures
• MAPREDUCE-6012 - DBInputSplit creates invalid ranges on Oracle
• OOZIE-1920 - Capture Output for SSH Action doesn't work
• SENTRY-363 - CTAS from view is requiring select on underlying table
• YARN-2273 - NPE in ContinuousScheduling thread when we lose a node
• YARN-2274 - FairScheduler: Add debug information about cluster capacity, availability and reservatio...
• YARN-2313 - Livelock can occur in FairScheduler when there are lots of running apps
• YARN-2352 - FairScheduler: Collect metrics on duration of critical methods that affect performance
• YARN-2359 - Application hangs when it fails to launch AM container

• Cloudera Manager

• New SAML configuration option to specify the binding protocol to be used for AuthNResponses sent from the IDP to Cloudera Manager.
• Host version detection logic fixed in Upgrade wizard when upgrading from package or a de-activated CDH4 parcel to CDH 5 parcels.
• AWS Installation wizard is fixed to work with Java 7u55
• BDR Replications can run in parallel with other replications.

• Cloudera Navigator

• Masking of personally identifiable information (PII) in query strings that appear in audit events and lineage.
• REST API support for registering business metadata for entities before they appear in Navigator.

CDH 5.0.4

This release is focused on fixing key bugs and includes the following.

• FLUME-2438 - Make Syslog source message body configurable
• HBASE-11609 - LoadIncrementalHFiles fails if the namespace is specified
• HDFS-6044 - Add property for setting the NFS look up time for users
• HDFS-6529 - Trace logging for RemoteBlockReader2 to identify remote datanode and file being read
• HDFS-6618 - FSNamesystem#delete drops the FSN lock between removing INodes from the tree and deletin...
• HDFS-6622 - Rename and AddBlock may race and produce invalid edits
• HDFS-6640 - [ Web HDFS ] Syntax for MKDIRS, CREATESYMLINK, and SETXATTR are given wrongly(missed webhdfs/v1).).
• HDFS-6647 - Edit log corruption when pipeline recovery occurs for deleted file present in snapshot
• HDFS-6703 - NFS: Files can be deleted from a read-only mount
• HDFS-6788 - Improve synchronization in BPOfferService with read write lock
• HIVE-5515 - Writing to an HBase table throws IllegalArgumentException, failing job submission
• HIVE-7459 - Fix NPE when an empty file is included in a Hive query that uses CombineHiveInputFormat
• HUE-2166 - [core] Oracle database support in doc model
• HUE-2249 - [jobsub] DB migration problems from 2 to 3.6
• IMPALA-1019 - Failed DCHECK in disk-io-mgr-reader-context.cc:174] num_used_buffers_ < 0: #used=-1 during cancellat...
• MAPREDUCE-5966 - MR1 FairScheduler use of custom weight adjuster is not thread safe for comparisons
• MAPREDUCE-5979 - FairScheduler: zero weight can cause sort failures
• OOZIE-1920 - Capture Output for SSH Action doesn't work
• SPARK-1930 - The Container is running beyond physical memory limits, so as to be killed.
• YARN-2061 - Revisit logging levels in ZKRMStateStore
• YARN-2132 - ZKRMStateStore.ZKAction#runWithRetries doesn't log the exception it encounters

Note: There is no CDH 5.1.1 release. This skip in the CDH 5.x sequence allows the CDH and CM components of Cloudera Enterprise 5.1.2 to have consistent numbering.

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

• Download Cloudera Enterprise from: http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads.html

• View the documentation:

• CDH 5 Release Notes
• CDH 5 Documentation
• Cloudera Manager Release Notes
• Cloudera Manager 5 Documentation
• Cloudera Navigator 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.