@shashi cheppela On behalf of product marketing, management, and research and development, we are excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5 has been released. This new release continues to deliver against our accelerated release strategy, delivering community-driven innovations to enable organizations to maximize the value of data-at-rest and data-in-motion. Hortonworks Data Platform’s new capabilities around dynamic security, enterprise spark at scale, governance, and streamlined operations empower teams to further scale their big-data projects and modern data applications. What’s new section of HDP page: http://hortonworks.com/products/data-center/hdp/ Spark page: http://hortonworks.com/apache/spark Zeppelin page: http://hortonworks.com/apache/zeppelin/ HBase: http://hortonworks.com/apache/hbase/#section_4 Hive: http://hortonworks.com/apache/hive/#section_3 Ambari: http://hortonworks.com/apache/ambari/#section_3 Atlas: http://hortonworks.com/apache/atlas/#section_4 Atlas/Ranger integreation: http://hortonworks.com/solutions/security-and-governance/ Smartsense: http://hortonworks.com/products/subscriptions/smartsense/ The team has also published a series of informative blogs on the new release. Please leverage the following material: Integration of Apache Atlas and Apache Ranger to drive dynamic classification-based security Open and comprehensive approach to data governance with cross-component lineage What is Business Catalog and Why do you need one? What’s new Apache Spark 2.0? Apache Zeppelin: The Road Ahead Run Apache Hive Query 25X Faster and More Apache Hive with LLAP enables sub-second SQL on Hadoop (Technical Preview) Advanced visualization Dashboarding with Apache Ambari Incremental Backup and Restore for Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix Please don't forget to VOTE and ACCEPT the best answer. ... View more