Hello CDH and Impala Users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Impala ODBC v2.5.29, Impala JDBC v2.5.24 and Hive JDBC v2.5.15.   Impala ODBC 2.5.29 contains bug fixes and the following enhancements: Support for calling SQLGetData on columns that come before a bound column Updated support for SQL_C_TINYINT Improved error messaging for authentication issues Support for saving passwords as encrypted strings in the Windows Registry Supports the use of "_HOST" as a special value for the Host FQDN option For a full list of fixes in Impala ODBC v2.1.29, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.   Impala JDBC 2.5.24 is a bugfix only release. For a full list of fixes in Impala JDBC v2.1.24, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.   Hive JDBC v2.5.15 contains numerous bug fixes and the following enhancements: Support for case-insensitive treatment of catalog names, schema names, table names, and column names in catalog function calls Optimized metadata retrieval For a full list of fixes in Hive JDBC v2.1.15, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.   These drivers work for versions of HiveServer2 in CDH 4.1 or higher and Impala 1.0 or higher. Previous drivers continue to work on the latest versions of HiveServer2 and Impala as well. Getting started with the Cloudera Drivers: Read the Cloudera JDBC 2.5 driver for Hive release notes and installation guide. Read the Cloudera JDBC 2.5 driver for Impala release notes and installation guide. Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 driver for Impala release notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to cdh-user@cloudera.org or post to our new Community Forums. ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, Impala, and Cloudera Navigator users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.2.6 (CDH 5.2.6, Cloudera Manager 5.2.6, and Cloudera Navigator 2.1.6).   Cloudera Enterprise 5.2.6 This release fixes key bugs and includes the following.   CDH fixes for the following issues: YARN rolling upgrade issue ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in NN when starting a DN after a storageID change Error that overestimates the amount of space to reserve for open files and can result in storage being incorrectly marked as full. For a full list of upstream JIRAs fixed in CDH 5.2.6, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes.   Cloudera Manager fixes for the following issues: Cloudera Manager Agent may become slow or get stuck when responding to commands and when sending heartbeats to Cloudera Manager Server. Cloudera Manager reports the wrong value for Impala bytes read from cache. Cloudera Manager uses Xalan 2.7.2. Changes made to client configuration overrides did not take effect until the service was restarted. For full list of issues fixed in Cloudera Manager 5.2.6, see the issues fixed section of the Release Notes. There are no updates included in Cloudera Navigator 2.1.6. We look forward to you trying it out, using the information below: Download Cloudera Enterprise View the 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. ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, Cloudera Impala, and Cloudera Navigator users,   CDH 5.4.4 fixes the following critical bugs:   Hue will not start when using SSL HiveServer2 LDAP Provider May Allow Authentication with Blank Password We look forward to you trying it out, using the information below: Download Cloudera Enterprise View the 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. ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, Impala, and Cloudera Navigator users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.4.3 (CDH 5.4.3, Cloudera Manager 5.4.3, and Cloudera Navigator 2.3.3).   Cloudera Enterprise 5.4.3 This release fixes key bugs and includes the following. CDH fixes for the following issues: Multiple YARN rolling upgrade issues  Potential data loss in the HDFS DataNode Incremental block report for HDFS significantly slows down NameNode startup For a full list of upstream JIRAs fixed in CDH 5.4.3, see the Known issues fixed section of the Release Notes. Cloudera Manager fixes for the following issues: Upgrade Wizard fails during CDH 5.4.1/Cloudera Manager 5.4.1 to CDH 5.4.3/Cloudera Manager 5.4.3 upgrade Performance issues when changing configurations on HDFS Cloudera Manager reports the wrong value for Impala bytes read from cache Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities For full list of issues fixed in Cloudera Manager 5.4.3, see the Known issues fixed section of the Release Notes. Cloudera Navigator fixes for the following issues: “POODLE” vulnerability on SSL/TLS enabled ports Navigator Search UI hangs due to blocked log4j thread Audit reports subject to cross-site scripting Navigator Key Trustee high availability (HA): writing backup copies of keys asynchronously rather than synchronously. Also, the backup server can now be added to the HA pair directly through Cloudera Manager. For full list of issues fixed in Navigator 2.3.3, see the Known issues fixed section of the Release Notes. 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 As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group or through these community forums. You can also file bugs through our external JIRA projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

Dear CDH users,   This release fixes an issue that caused rolling upgrades to CDH 5.3.4 to fail.   We look forward to you trying it out, using the information below:   Download CDH 5.3.5 from the download page View the documentation: CDH 5.3.x Release Notes 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. ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, Impala, and Cloudera Navigator users, We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.3.4 (CDH 5.3.4, Cloudera Manager 5.3.4, and Cloudera Navigator 2.2.4).     Cloudera Enterprise 5.3.4 This release fixes key bugs and includes the following. CDH Multiple fixes for HDFS rolling upgrades Multiple YARN fair scheduler fixes Impala performance and query fixes HS2 no longer leaks open file descriptors when using UDFs For full list of upstream JIRAs fixed in CDH 5.3.4, see the Known issues fixed section of the Release Notes. Cloudera Manager fixes for the following issues: Slowness observed when accessing replication page. Cloudera Manager overwrites the krb5.conf file after disabling management by Cloudera Manager. Header injection vulnerability in internal logging call. Graph for "Total Containers Running Across NodeManagers" displays incorrect high values. 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 Cloudera Manager Release Notes Cloudera Navigator Release Notes 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. ... View more

Hello CDH and Impala Users, We are pleased to announce the release of Hive ODBC v2.5.15 and Impala JDBC v2.5.28. Hive ODBC v2.5.15 contains bug fixes and the following enhancements: Two-way SSL verification Custom HTTP headers SSL and Thrift transport protocol now configured separately from authentication Support for saving passwords as encrypted strings in the Windows Registry Impala ODBC 2.5.28 contains bug fixes and the following enhancements: Driver configuration option for enabling or disabling connections to SSL-enabled servers that use self-signed certificates Ability to configure SSL separately from authentication Option for configuring SASL when using username and password authentication   These drivers work for versions of HiveServer2 in CDH 4.1 or higher and Impala 1.0 or higher. Previous drivers continue to work on the latest versions of HiveServer2 and Impala.   Getting started with the Cloudera drivers: Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 Driver for Hive Release Notes and  Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to cdh-user@cloudera.org or post to our new Community Forums. ... View more

Hello CDH and Impala Users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Hive JDBC v2.5.12 and Impala JDBC v2.5.22. Hive JDBC v2.5.12 allows you to configure SSL separately from authentication and fixes the following issues: The getColumns() function returns an empty result set if it uses both schema and table restrictions, and the table restriction contains an escaped wildcard character. Query translation does not use the database context specified by a USE <database> query. The driver does not report an error when a MapReduce job fails on the server side during query execution.   Impala JDBC 2.5.22 fixes the following issues: The getColumns() function returns an empty result set if it uses both schema and table restrictions, and the table restriction contains an escaped wildcard character. Precision and scale for DECIMAL columns are reported incorrectly.   Query translation does not use the database context specified by a USE <database> query. These drivers work for versions of HiveServer2 in CDH 4.1 or higher and Impala 1.0 or higher. Previous drivers continue to work on the latest versions of HiveServer2 and Impala as well.   Getting started with the Cloudera Drivers: Read the Cloudera JDBC 2.5 driver for Hive release notes and installation guide. Read the Cloudera JDBC 2.5 driver for Impala release notes and installation guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to cdh-user@cloudera.org or post to our new Community Forums. ... View more