Announcing: Impala 1.1 and Cloudera Manager 4.6.2

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Hello CDH, Impala and Cloudera Manager Users,

Impala 1.1:
We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Impala version: 1.1. This release includes the following new features:

• Sentry support:
  • Fine-grained authorization
  • Role-based authorization
• Support for views
• Performance improvements
  • Parquet columnar performance
  • More efficient metadata refresh for larger installations
• Additional SQL
  • SQL-89 joins (in addition to existing SQL-92)
  • LOAD function
  • REFRESH command for JDBC/ODBC
• Improved Hbase support:
  • Binary types
  • Caching configuration

For a full list of features and fixes please see the Release Notes.

Cloudera Manager 4.6.2:
We are also announcing the Cloudera Manager 4.6.2 release, which contains support for Impala 1.1 and several key bug fixes. Please see the full Cloudera Manager release notes. You can finddownload information, installation and upgrade documentation from our website. If you are using Cloudera Manager to manage Impala, we recommend upgrading Impala to 1.1 and Cloudera Manager to 4.6.2.

To Get Started with Impala:

For those of you who have not used Impala previously, here is how you get started:

• Use Cloudera Manager 4.6.2 to deploy Impala. The installation instructions can be found here: Installing Impala with Cloudera Manager.
• To deploy Impala without Cloudera Manager support, visit Cloudera's download page and follow the instructions in this section: Installing Impala without Cloudera Manager. Please note that you need to have CDH 4.1 or later installed on RHEL5.7/6.2, Centos5.7/6.2, SUSE 11 with Service Pack 1 or later, Ubuntu 10.04/12.04, or Debian 6.03. For more information, see Cloudera Impala Requirements.

Resources:

• Impala FAQ
• Download the Cloudera QuickStart VM which includes a VM of Impala. The VM includes instructions that show you the power of Impala.
• E-learning course on "An Introduction To Impala"
• Access the Impala source code at: https://github.com/cloudera/impala.
• Access the Impala documentation.
• Cloudera Manager download.
• Access the Cloudera Manager documentation.

Feedback:
If you have feedback, please continue to use the user groups and external jiras:

• The Impala user group or discussion forum. Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback on Impala.
• The Impala Jira. Impala feature requests and bug reports are welcome.
• The Cloudera Manager user group or discussion forum. Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback on Cloudera Manager.

Sincerely, 

The Cloudera Team