Weird Zeppelin version in HDP 2.4

[#1]

Hello,

HDP 2.4 Ambari's "Stack and version" reports the (pre-installed) Zeppelin notebook as being version 0.0.5, surely this is a mistake. According to the release notes [1] the version is 0.6.0. Is that right? Or is it 0.5.0 (and the version reported is a typo) ?

(I'm trying to write a custom interpreter but it isn't loaded and there's no reason for that in Zeppelin's logs so I'm starting to wonder if I built my interpreter against the wrong version of Zeppelin, hence my looking at the version reported by Ambari...)

[1] http://fr.hortonworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ReleaseNotes_3_23_2016.pdf

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Did you install the 2.4 Sandbox or HDP 2.4.2 from scratch via Ambari? In my HDP 2.4.2 (via Ambari, not Sandbox) installation I don't see Zeppelin. However I had the same version 0.0.5 in another stack, but it came from a very early manual installation of Zeppelin via https://github.com/hortonworks-gallery/ambari-zeppelin-service - and Ambari still remembered after the upgrade.

On my box I again manually installed Zeppelin. If I list <ZEPPELIN_ROOT>/zeppelin-server/target/*.jar, I get

zeppelin-server/target/zeppelin-server-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Maybe you can try this on your machine to determine the actual Zeppelin version?

[#3]

I installed 2.4 Sandbox. Checking the Zeppelin server jar as you suggested (zeppelin-server-0.6.0.2.4.0.0-169.jar in my case) , it seems I do have Zeppelin 0.6.0. I don't remember performing any additional installation, so I don't know where the 0.0.5 comes from...

So I built my interpreter using the proper version of Zeppelin. Now on to finding out why it doesn't load...

Thank you for your reply.

[#4]

Just to be sure, I created a new VM instance of HDP 2.4 Sandbox and the version of Zeppelin notebook reported by Ambari is indeed wrong: 0.0.5 instead of 0.6.0.

[#5]

With HDP 2.5 on the horizon, a new version of sandbox will be released as well. Updates to existing versions are not an option, which means that you'll need to wait until the next version or try and upgrade it yourself.