What's New @ Cloudera

Version 0.7.0 has the following notable changes: Dataset API. Changes to make the API more consistent and better integrated with standard Java APIs like Iterator, Iterable, Flushable, and Closeable. Java 7. CDK now works with Java 7. Upgrade to Avro 1.7.5. Morphlines Library Added commands splitKeyValue, extractURIComponent and toByteArray Added outputFields parameter to the split command to support a list of column names similar to the readCSV command Added tika-xmp maven module as a dependency to cdk-morphline-solr-cell module Added several performance enhancements Upgraded cdk-morphlines-saxon module from saxon-HE-9.5.1-1 to saxon-HE-9.5.1-2 The full change log is available from JIRA.

Dear Search, Cloudera Manager, and CDH users,   We are pleased to announce the general availability of Cloudera Search 1.0 along with the Cloudera Manager 4.7, Cloudera Navigator 1.1, and CDH4.4.0 releases.   Cloudera Search 1.0 After three months of public beta, and months of private beta before that, we are proud to present the general availability of Cloudera Search. We have now contributed back our innovation and IP around integration of Apache Solr and Apache Lucene with Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) back into the various projects, and completed a lot of hardening, integration, simplification, and packaging work.   Our Cloudera team has impressively delivered a number of highly attractive and valuable platform integrations:   Batch indexing via Apache MapReduce Near real time indexing at ingest via Apache Flume and Apache HBase Cloudera Manager integration for better production visibility and monitoring SolrCloud deployment capa

Hello CDH and Impala Users,   We are pleased to announce the version 2.5 release of the Cloudera ODBC Driver for Apache Hive and Cloudera Impala. This version adds: Significantly enhanced ODBC API support to enable even more BI tool integrations Support for additional platforms including Windows XP and Mac 32-bit and 64-bit drivers Increased performance The driver has also been certified with Tableau 8.0.5 to connect to HiveServer2 with CDH 4.2 and above.   Getting started with the Cloudera ODBC 2.5: Read the Impala installation guide and the Hive installation guide Download the connector from the Cloudera Components and Connectors page   As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to cdh-user@cloudera.org or impala-user@cloudera.org or post to our new Community Forums.   Kind regards, The Cloudera Team

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 Re

Dear CDH Users,   We are pleased to announce the general availability of CDH4.3.1. This is a maintenance update to the CDH4 platform that includes a security fix for a Apache Hadoop and Apache HBase "Man-in-the-Middle" vulnerability and provides a number of bug fixes and stability enhancements. Some of the key fixes include: Hadoop HADOOP-9439 - JniBasedUnixGroupsMapping crashes HADOOP-8151 - Error handling in snappy decompressor throws invalid exceptions HDFS HDFS-4621 - Additional logging to help diagnose slow QJM logSync HBase HBASE-8446 - Allow parallel snapshot of different tables HBASE-8690 - Reduce unnecessary getFileStatus hdfs calls in TTL hfile and hlog cleaners HBASE-8706 - Some improvement in snapshot HBASE-8712 - HFileLinkCleaner (FSUtils.listStatus) logs too much if links do not exists HBASE-8742 - HTableDescriptor Properties not preserved when cloning HBASE-8783 - RSSnapshotManager.ZKProcedureMemberRp

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Manager 4.6.3. This is a critical bug fix release. Please refer to the fixed issue. We strongly encourage anyone using CM 4.6.x to upgrade.   You can download CM 4.6.3 or upgrade to CM 4.6.3. For more questions, email us at scm-users@cloudera.org, or checkout our new community forum.

Hello CDH, Search, and Cloudera Manager Users,   We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Search Beta version 0.9.3. This is the fourth drop of the Cloudera Search public Beta.   This version has bug fixes and adds the following features: Support for Kerberos authentication. Search continues to use simple authentication with the anonymous user as the default configuration, but Search now supports changing the authentication scheme to Kerberos. All required packages are installed during the installation or upgrade process. Additional configuration is required before Kerberos is available in your environment. Extended the morphlines library: Added commands xquery, xslt, convertHTML for reading, extracting and transforming XML and HTML with XPath, XQuery and XSLT. Added tokenizeText command that uses the embedded Solr/Lucene Analyzer library to generate tokens from a text string, without sending data to a Solr server. Added translate command that examines each value

Hello CDH, Impala and Cloudera Manager Users,   Impala 1.1:We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Impala version: 1.1. This release includes the following new features: Sentry support: Fine-grained authorization Role-based authorization Support for views Performance improvements Parquet columnar performance More efficient metadata refresh for larger installations Additional SQL SQL-89 joins (in addition to existing SQL-92) LOAD function REFRESH command for JDBC/ODBC Improved Hbase support: Binary types Caching configuration For a full list of features and fixes please see the Release Notes.   Cloudera Manager 4.6.2:We are also announcing the Cloudera Manager 4.6.2 release, which contains support for Impala 1.1 and several key bug fixes. Please see the full Cloudera Manager release notes. You can finddownload information, installation and upgrade documentation from our website. If you are using Cloudera Manager to manage Impala, we