Announcing: Cloudera Impala 1.1.1

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Hello CDH, Impala and Cloudera Manager Users,

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Impala version: 1.1.1. This is a maintenance release that contains defect fixes and improvements including the following:

• Additional security feature: auditing events. New startup options for impalad let you capture information about Impala queries that succeed or are blocked due to insufficient privileges. These events will also be integrated into an upcoming release of Cloudera Navigator. For details, see Impala Security.
• Parquet data files generated by Impala 1.1.1 are now compatible with the Parquet support in Hive. See Incompatible Changes on page 11 for the procedure to update older Impala-created Parquet files to be compatible with the Hive Parquet support.
• Additional improvements to stability and resource utilization for Impala queries.
• Additional enhancements for compatibility with existing file formats.

For a full list of features and fixes, see the Impala Release Notes

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

• Use Cloudera Manager 4.5 or later to deploy Impala (strongly recommend Cloudera Manager 4.6.3 for maximum functionality). 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, external jiras or the new Community Forums:

• The Impala user group. Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback on Impala.
• The Impala Jira. Impala feature requests and bug reports are welcome.
• The Impala Community Forum is another place to ask questions and provide feedback on Impala.