[ANNOUNCE] New Cloudera JDBC 2.6.23 Driver for Apache Impala Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera JDBC 2.6.23 driver for Apache Impala.

This release has the following fixes and enhancements:

Enhancements and New Features

• [IMPJ-604] SSO authentication - You can now authenticate using single sign-on (SSO) via SAML 2.0 on supported servers.

Workflow Changes

• [IMPJ-536] Removed support for JDBC 4.0 (Java 6)

Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver

Read the Cloudera Impala JDBC 2.6.20 Driver for  Apache Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. 
Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. 

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.