Cloudera is pleased to announce a maintenance release of our supported packaging of Apache Accumulo for use on CDH 5.   This release fixes critical security issues related to the POODLE vulnerability.   Existing users should see a new parcel available for Accumulo 1.6.0-cdh5.1.4.   This release is supported with Cloudera Manager and CDH versions 5.1.0 or later. However, Cloudera Manager and CDH versions 5.1.4 or later are needed for fixes for POODLE in those components.   Cloudera recommends using the latest version of Cloudera Manager.   * Docs: http://tiny.cloudera.com/ accumulo-docs * CM 5.3.2 Download: http://tiny.cloudera.com/cm-5. 3.2 * Accumulo 1.6.0 on CDH 5 (CDH 5.1.0 or later): http://archive.cloudera.com/ accumulo-c5/ ... View more

Hello CDH Users,   We are pleased to announce the release of the Hive JDBC v2.5.9 driver. This release fixes the following issues: Using Java services to load the driver classes may cause a Hive Server 2 connection failure Driver misinterprets newer version of Hive When using Kerberos authentication, the driver returns an error message To get started with the Cloudera drivers: Read the Cloudera JDBC 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 Community Forums.   Kind regards, The Cloudera Team ... View more

Dear CDH and Cloudera Manager Users,     We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 1.1.   Cloudera Director is a simple and reliable way to deploy, scale, and manage Hadoop in the cloud (initially for AWS) in an enterprise-grade fashion. It’s free to download and use, and supported by default for Cloudera Enterprise customers. This release is focused on the following enhancements:     Support for demand-based shrinking of clusters Integration with Amazon RDS to enable end-to-end setup of clusters as well as related databases Native client bindings for Director API in Java and Python Overall improvements to Director User Interface, usability, and documentation Improved performance We look forward to you trying it out using the information below:   Download Director from: http://www.cloudera.com/ content/support/en/downloads. html View the documentation: Cloudera Director Release Notes Getting Started Installing Cloudera Director Client Installing Cloudera Director Server As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group or through our community forums. ... View more

Dear CDH and Cloudera Manager Users, We are pleased to announce the General Availability of Apache Kafka for CDH 5. Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It provides: High throughput and low latency Scalability Durability  and reliability Fault tolerance High concurrency In addition to replacing traditional message brokers, Kafka is ideal for collecting user activity data, aggregating logs, obtaining operational application metrics, and device instrumentation. Download Apache Kafka from: http://www.cloudera.com/ content/support/en/downloads. html View the documentation: Overview Release Notes Installation Administration As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group or through ourcommunity forums.  You can also file bugs through our external JIRA projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, and Impala users,   We are pleased to announce the release of CDH 5.2.3 and CDH 5.3.1.   CDH 5.2.3 This release includes updates and fixes in several components including Avro, Crunch, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Hue, Impala, Pig, Parquet, and Solr. Some of the highlights are:   The data file corruption recovery tool in Avro Fixes in NFS support, short-circuit read, and decommissioning report in HDFS Replication fix in HBase Fixes for Kerberos and LDAP support in Hive Timestamp fix in Impala Fix to issue that could cause a Hive metastore corruption when upgrading to CDH 5.2.0, CDH 5.2.1, or CDH 5.3.0 CDH 5.3.1 This release includes fixes in Impala, Hive, and YARN. Some of the highlights are:   Fix to issue that could cause a Hive metastore corruption when upgrading to CDH 5.2.0, CDH 5.2.1, or CDH 5.3.0 Fix to memory leak when Impala is deployed with secure connections Fixes for YARN HA We look forward to you trying out these releases, 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 Documentation As always, we welcome 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

Hello CDH and Impala Users,   We are pleased to announce the release of the Impala ODBC v2.5.23 and JDBC v2.5.16 drivers.   The Impala ODBC driver now supports authentication using user credentials without SASL implemented and fixes the following issues: SQLDescribeCol returns incorrect column lengths Windows DSN Setup dialog loads and saves the password from/to a DSN The driver may hang when running concurrent operations using the same connection from different threads The Impala JDBC driver fixes the following issues: Driver misinterprets a newer version of Impala Executing a query after PreparedStatement.setObject(1, null) in Native Query Mode causes a null pointer issue to occur Driver does not return an error when a table or column in a query is not found These drivers work for previous versions of HiveServer2 in CDH 4.1 or higher and Impala 1.0 or higher.   To get started with the Cloudera drivers: Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 driver for Impala 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.   Kind regards, The Cloudera Team ... View more

Dear CDH, Cloudera Manager, Impala, and Cloudera Navigator users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Manager 5.2.2 (including Cloudera Navigator 2.1.2) and Cloudera Manager 5.3.1 (including Cloudera Navigator 2.2.1).   Cloudera Manager 5.2.2 and Cloudera Navigator 2.1.2 This release fixes key bugs and includes the following: Cloudera Manager impalad memory limit units error in EnableLlamaRMCommand has been fixed. Fixed MapReduce Usage by User Reports when using an Oracle database backend. HiveServer2 keystore and LDAP group mapping passwords are no longer exposed in client configuration. Running MapReduce v2 jobs are visible using the Application Master view. Deleting services no longer results in foreign key constraint exceptions. Cloudera Navigator Search results in Navigator now have links to Hue. Browser autocomplete is no longer enabled before authentication. Navigator Web UI no longer exposes paths to directory listing/forceful browsing. Navigator Audit Server no longer throws out of memory (OOM) error for very long Impala queries. Cloudera Manager 5.3.1 and Cloudera Navigator 2.2.1 This release fixes key bugs and includes the following: Cloudera Manager Deploy client configuration no longer fails after 60 seconds. service cloudera-scm-server force_start now works. After services are deleted, the Cloudera Manager Server log no longer contains foreign key constraint failure exceptions. When using Isilon, Cloudera Manager now sets mapred_submit_replication correctly. The Cloudera Manager Agent now sets the file descriptor ulimit correctly on Ubuntu. During upgrade, bootstrapping the standby NameNode step no longer fails with standby NameNode connection refused when connecting to active NameNode. Deploying krb5.conf now also deploys it on hosts with Cloudera Management Service roles. Cloudera Manager allows upgrades to unknown CDH maintenance releases. impalad memory limit units error in EnableLlamaRMCommand. Running MapReduce v2 jobs are now visible using the Application Master view. HiveServer2 keystore and LDAP group mapping passwords are no longer exposed in client configuration files. Fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cloudera Management Service web UIs. The high availability wizard now sets the HDFS dependency on ZooKeeper. BDR no longer assumes superuser is common if clusters have the same realm. Cloudera Navigator Browser autocomplete is no longer enabled before authentication. Navigator Web UI no longer exposes paths to directory listing/forceful browsing. Navigator Audit Server no longer throws OOM for very long Impala queries.  We look forward to you trying out these releases, using the information below: Download Cloudera Enterprise from: http://www.cloudera.com/ content/support/en/downloads. html View the documentation: Cloudera Manager Release Notes Cloudera Navigator Release Notes Cloudera Documentation   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group or through our these forums. You can also file bugs through our external JIRA projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more