1. What's Changed in Ambari-1.6.0

The following changes were made in Ambari-1.6.0:

Apache JIRA Support Tracking Summary
AMBARI-5818 BUG-17797 Decommission of RegionServer failed
AMBARI-5814 BUG-17989 Ambari set the value of hive.tez.container.size too high in hive-site.xml
AMBARI-5807 BUG-17943 MapReduce Service Check fails
AMBARI-5804 BUG-17925 ATS start failed with custom usernames
AMBARI-5796 BUG-17924 Install of services failed (Blueprint; HDP 1.3)
AMBARI-5793 BUG-17847 When posting blueprint with Nagios and Oozie password configs are not validated
AMBARI-5779 BUG-17825 Recommission a DN fails when https is enabled in Ambari server
AMBARI-5778 BUG-17641 In some upgrade scenarios, Ambari Web's persist key-value store state causes the UI to act unpredictably
AMBARI-5776 BUG-17891 ambari-server log has lots of ERROR jmx
AMBARI-5773 BUG-17791 Hive check log causing TTransportException errors
AMBARI-5767 BUG-16629 Blueprint delete is broken
AMBARI-5765 BUG-17828 Views: Files + Pig need to remove default instances from view.xml
AMBARI-5764 BUG-13405 API Docs : Views
AMBARI-5753 BUG-17823 Storm fails to start after disabling security
AMBARI-5752 BUG-17800 Cluster tab should not show debian repo URL
AMBARI-5744 BUG-17674 HADOOP_HOME is not set in hadoop-env.sh
AMBARI-5742 BUG-17535 View: Files support for optional username view parameter
AMBARI-5736 BUG-17670 View: Pig bug fixes and UI cleanup, Part 2
AMBARI-5735 BUG-17737 HDP deployment failed in CentOS5
AMBARI-5730 BUG-17193 Space Error in container-executor.cfg
AMBARI-5729 BUG-17694 Decommission issues in secure cluster
AMBARI-5727 BUG-17706 View: Files fontawesome not loading
AMBARI-5726 BUG-17420 Adding Oozie failed at service check
AMBARI-5725 BUG-17637 hive-schema-0.10.0 and 0.12.0.postgres.sql missing
AMBARI-5724 BUG-17602 View: Pig bug fixes and UI cleanup, Part 1
AMBARI-5723 BUG-17712 IllegalStateException when provisioning cluster via blueprint during password validation
AMBARI-5722 BUG-17704 All Services Fail To Deploy Due To Agent Parsing Exception
AMBARI-5719 BUG-17515 View: Files should not hard code REST API with view name + instance name
AMBARI-5718 BUG-17592 View: Pig should not hard code REST API with view name + instance name
AMBARI-5717 BUG-17698 Installer: repo URLs are not saved after customization if "skip" option is chosen
AMBARI-5716 BUG-17672 Disable Security: Client install tasks fail for start all services request
AMBARI-5714 BUG-17650 Views list not loading in Ambari Web
AMBARI-5713 BUG-17500 Add Service wizard: Hive Server fails to start
AMBARI-5711 BUG-17082 'Background operations' window displayed after attempt to switch HBase RegionServer to 'Decommission' state
AMBARI-5710 BUG-17571 WebHCat (WebHCat Server) start failed
AMBARI-5708 BUG-17384 Stacks API: GET call on StackServices resource fails
AMBARI-5706 BUG-17598 Provide basic validation for cluster create via a blueprint
AMBARI-5705 BUG-17691 Error while installing JDK on agent
AMBARI-5705 BUG-17461 Fail to install hive client with error: Fail: Execution of '/bin/sh -c 'cd /usr/lib/ambari-agent/ && curl -kf --retry 5 http://hadoop1:8080/resources/DBConnectionVerification.jar -o DBConnectionVerification.jar'' returned 22
AMBARI-5704 BUG-17451 Pig View Cleanup
AMBARI-5702 BUG-17437 Ability to work on a view as "exploded" to support UI dev
AMBARI-5697 BUG-17299 When restart hive service from Ambari Web UI, it fails with the error: cat: /var/run/hive/hive.pid: No such file or directory
AMBARI-5690 BUG-17127 Allow universal password to be specified when provisioning via a blueprint
AMBARI-5687 BUG-17504 Cluster gateway is overloaded and works very slow
AMBARI-5684 BUG-16965 Provide /etc dir in a Service definition for Service-specific files
AMBARI-5681 BUG-16342 Add Nagios alert if HDFS last checkpoint time exceeds threshold
AMBARI-5678 BUG-17457 Going back from review causes configs alerts
AMBARI-5677 BUG-17438 Ability to handle name + version views and view instances
AMBARI-5674 BUG-17325 Supervisor goes into stopped state after deploying cluster from blueprint
AMBARI-5672 BUG-17182 Unnecessary 'Base URL' field on SelectStackPage 1.6.0
AMBARI-5670 BUG-17507 Ambari Storm uses wrong storm_jass.conf location
AMBARI-5669 BUG-17456 Alternatives issues has error message (missing translation)
AMBARI-5664 BUG-17261 host details page top margin too big
AMBARI-5662 BUG-17330 change heartbeat lost text
AMBARI-5661 BUG-17337 YARN and MR2 failed to start after upgrade
AMBARI-5658 BUG-17311 Ambari does not link to the new HTML NameNode UI
AMBARI-5657 BUG-17300 Ambari layout issues on IE 9
AMBARI-5656 BUG-17411 Views: do not let the user click on the Views icon in the top nav
AMBARI-5655 BUG-17260 when no views, show "No Views"
AMBARI-5654 BUG-17401 Kill border that is showing up around Views panel
AMBARI-5653 BUG-17380 upgradestack only handles specific OSs
AMBARI-5652 BUG-17291 Quick Links does not work if both NameNodes are in Standby
AMBARI-5650 BUG-17227 postgres-CREATE DDL should only prepare schemas if possible
AMBARI-5649 BUG-17469 Ambari setup with MySQL as AmbariDB fails
AMBARI-5649 BUG-17468 Ambari setup with OracleDB on external host fails
AMBARI-5649 BUG-17348 Add postgres external as separate option in ambari-server.py
AMBARI-5647 BUG-17341 On empty jobs page, new queries are not showing up
AMBARI-5646 BUG-17347 Jobs don’t show up as links for a moment when page is visited
AMBARI-5645 BUG-17700 (Apache) AMBARI-5645 Ooozie Service Check fails intermittently
AMBARI-5644 BUG-17329 postgres option should not expect psql client is available
AMBARI-5643 BUG-17367 Add Services is disabled after upgrading the stack from 2.0 to 2.1
AMBARI-5642 BUG-17364 Ambari Views : NPE deploying view
AMBARI-5636 BUG-17339 Unit test and refactoring for controllers/main/service/info/config.js part 1
AMBARI-5634 BUG-16437 Some components of Storm were not started after added of Nagios and Ganglia
AMBARI-5633 BUG-16845 Start Services command gets stuck for about 30 mins
AMBARI-5625 BUG-17282 ambari-server setup does not allow to specify existing Postgres db through command line option --database
AMBARI-5623 BUG-16766 GET request on cluster resource gives psql exception
AMBARI-5617 BUG-16921 Apache Code Submission for Ambari Files View
AMBARI-5616 BUG-16920 Apache Code Submission for Ambari Pig View
AMBARI-5615 BUG-17212 Start of services fails if installing only HDFS+ZK
AMBARI-5614 BUG-16791 Unit tests for steps 8
AMBARI-5612 BUG-17273 Unit tests for object_utils, date, ui_effects, updater
AMBARI-5611 BUG-17176 Datanode and other components fail to start without YARN installed
AMBARI-5609 BUG-17229 UI unit tests for admin and alerts controllers
AMBARI-5607, AMBARI-5645 BUG-17514 Teradata request include AMBARI-5607 and AMBARI-5645 in 1.6.0
AMBARI-5607 BUG-17574 Yarn Nodemanager Metrics only update every few minutes
AMBARI-5604 BUG-17226 Postgres should be option 4 in setup, not 2
AMBARI-5603 BUG-17183 Ambari version is unknown during installer via UI
AMBARI-5599 BUG-17241 Switching between existing configs is not working in API
AMBARI-5598 BUG-16897 Security wizard: Host progress in the pop-up does not update
AMBARI-5597 BUG-16627 host group field name is not consistent across BP and cluster create body
AMBARI-5587 BUG-16903 UI unit tests for host controllers
AMBARI-5586 BUG-17068 Strange behaviour of progress bar after successful login
AMBARI-5581 BUG-17155 create HDP 1.3 stack
AMBARI-5578 BUG-17126 Rename stacks endpoints stackServices and serviceComponents
AMBARI-5577 BUG-17092 Turn Off Maintenance Mode for HDFS does not work (problems with ambari-agent)
AMBARI-5575 BUG-16792 Unit tests for steps 9 (with refactor)
AMBARI-5574 BUG-17026 Need some logging when JSON parsing throws an error
AMBARI-5573 BUG-17170 UI does not redirect on 'Dashboard' page after login
AMBARI-5572 BUG-17040 Hive Metastore start command fails if hive client is not co-hosted with hive metastore
AMBARI-5571 BUG-17080 Restart option is enabled for components in 'Decommissioned' state but it should not
AMBARI-5570 BUG-17120 MySQL Server install failed during deployment, suse11
AMBARI-5569 BUG-17169 Fix UI Unit tests
AMBARI-5568 BUG-17042 Security wizard freezes at last step
AMBARI-5565 BUG-16984 New dashboard UI tweaks
AMBARI-5564, AMBARI-5622, AMBARI-5815 BUG-17133 'Upgrading schema' failed during upgrading to 1.6.0
AMBARI-5558 BUG-17028 Navigating back from Host page to Heatmaps page is broken
AMBARI-5555 BUG-17117 NameNode HA wizard: Review page appears blank
AMBARI-5553 BUG-12276 Update /stacks endpoint to expose cardinality and dependency information
AMBARI-5551 BUG-17070 Add Host: checkbox "client" without upper case letter
AMBARI-5549 BUG-16427 Add Existing Postgres 9.x Database option for Ambari db
AMBARI-5547 BUG-16907 Exclude /boot from the mount points to use for suggesting directories
AMBARI-5543 BUG-16789 Unit tests for steps 6
AMBARI-5541 BUG-17062 JS error upon revisiting Install, Start and Test page
AMBARI-5540 BUG-17073 Add unit tests and refactor controllers/main/service/item.js
AMBARI-5538 BUG-16625 Nagios stale_config isn't set if nagios_web_password or nagios_contactc changed
AMBARI-5536 BUG-17058 Confirm Hosts page UI layout issues
AMBARI-5534 BUG-16995 Experimental control not working on new top-nav
AMBARI-5532 BUG-17022 Bootstrap fails on Ubuntu
AMBARI-5531 BUG-16955 Switch SQL standard authorization to be off by default
AMBARI-5529 BUG-16982 Hive + Oozie postgres option should say PostgreSQL
AMBARI-5528 BUG-17018 UI unit tests and refactoring for controller of Add Host wizard
AMBARI-5527 BUG-16558 Add ssl option to configs.sh
AMBARI-5526 BUG-16261 Filter on Customize services page works incorrectly
AMBARI-5524 BUG-17013 Unit tests for number_utils, string_utils, validator and misc files
AMBARI-5523 BUG-17017 Jobs controller not critical js error when "No jobs to display"
AMBARI-5522 BUG-17014 Jobs table is rendered incorrectly when there are no jobs available
AMBARI-5520 BUG-17015 Fix UI Unit tests
AMBARI-5516 BUG-15672 Change web version mismatch wording to make the refresh op more clear
AMBARI-5515 BUG-16744 Not all HIVE default configuration values are provided in stack definition
AMBARI-5514 BUG-16937 Flatten Ambari UI including box, dropdown. etc
AMBARI-5512 BUG-16855 Move wizard and HA wizard gets stuck on any deploy step
AMBARI-5511 BUG-16713 Misleading hard coded command in paragraph 2 on step "Manual commands" of "Move Master" wizard
AMBARI-5510 BUG-15387 NPE in ganglia property provider
AMBARI-5509 BUG-16623 "Check Falcon" failed after disable security without pre-configured Kerberos
AMBARI-5508 BUG-16793 Unit tests for steps 10
AMBARI-5507 BUG-16948 Refactor of Flume service view related to metrics.
AMBARI-5505 BUG-16341 HBase in Blueprint results in error
AMBARI-5504 BUG-16146 Views: Dynamic Views menu (interface)
AMBARI-5504 BUG-16145 Views: Ambari Web Layout Update
AMBARI-5503 BUG-12558 Review upgrade helper script for Baikal
AMBARI-5498 BUG-16892 Selecting agent in flume agents table should show 3 additional graph sections
AMBARI-5496 BUG-16906 unit tests for MR/YARN failing on Jenkins
AMBARI-5493 BUG-16782 UI unit tests for disable, security progress, high availability controllers
AMBARI-5492 BUG-16788 Unit tests for steps 5
AMBARI-5490 BUG-16902 Fix UI Unit tests
AMBARI-5489 BUG-16893 Security wizard: browser refresh stops the execution of the wizard on deploy step
AMBARI-5486 BUG-16723 Add tests for OSCheck module
AMBARI-5485 BUG-16048 Ambari should Manage JobHistory Heap Size
AMBARI-5484 BUG-16564 When ATS is not running, Jobs page just shows "Loading..." forever
AMBARI-5480 BUG-15195 There's significant lag for the Restart Indicators to go away after restarting
AMBARI-5478 BUG-16821 Flume configurations should not have 'flume-agent' type
AMBARI-5477 BUG-15821 Flume host component should have stop/start/restart actions
AMBARI-5476 BUG-16469 Change permissions for /var/log/hadoop/mapred/userlogs/*
AMBARI-5474 BUG-16630 Unit tests for steps 3-4
AMBARI-5473 BUG-16698 Create configs tab for Flume service
AMBARI-5472 BUG-16729 MySQL database installed by Ambari does not work with Streaming ingest
AMBARI-5472 BUG-16706 Use SchemaTool in Hive and move to schematool
AMBARI-5471 BUG-16618 UI unit tests for misc and security controllers
AMBARI-5470 BUG-16759 Error on Step 9 on Deploy
AMBARI-5469 BUG-16686 FLUME_HANDLER should be not be master component
AMBARI-5467 BUG-15955 Flume: Add processes endpoint
AMBARI-5464 BUG-16277 Add unit tests for jobs controllers/views
AMBARI-5462 BUG-15085 Allow host group scoped configuration to be specified in blueprint
AMBARI-5461 BUG-16694 Flume agents table in service summary view should be sortable
AMBARI-5457 BUG-16673 Host Checks: alternatives check results are not surfaced in Host Check popup
AMBARI-5456 BUG-16708 Fix UI Unit tests
AMBARI-5454 BUG-15816 Flume service summary page should show list of flume agents and status
AMBARI-5451 BUG-16614 Supervisor Start failed after install cluster
AMBARI-5446 BUG-16591 Upgrade Helper should add ATS when upgrading directly to 2.1.
AMBARI-5445 BUG-15804 When new host components are created thru API, some indication should be given that Nagios has to be restarted
AMBARI-5443 BUG-16474 Assign Masters Page: Wrap hostname string value for text fields
AMBARI-5442 BUG-16616 Tests coverage for helper.js and component.js
AMBARI-5441 BUG-15714 Flume: process reporting mechanism
AMBARI-5440 BUG-16621 isAccessAvailable function need to be changed regarding changes in stackDependedComponents function
AMBARI-5439 BUG-16615 Add Service Wizard Step "assign slaves" is broken
AMBARI-5438 BUG-16271 Add unit tests to configuration and update controllers
AMBARI-5437 BUG-16603 ServiceComponent metadata on the client should not be deleted if Stack doesn't support Service
AMBARI-5434 BUG-16617 HDFS test_service_check.TestServiceCheck failed
AMBARI-5428 BUG-16546 failing testGenerateManifest, test_overwrite_repos
AMBARI-5427 BUG-14179 Usability: Cleanup database connection checking output during setup
AMBARI-5426 BUG-16164 Jobs page: js error on switching browser tabs
AMBARI-5423 BUG-14742 Remove hard coded Service, Component mapping from LiveStatus.py
AMBARI-5422 BUG-16541 UI unit tests for cluster and BO controller
AMBARI-5421 BUG-16454 Some unit test fail depending on timezone
AMBARI-5420 BUG-16537 Server fails due to old syntactic in metainfo.xml (<osType></osType> to <osFamily></osFamily>)
AMBARI-5419 BUG-15377 '100%' string out of box when installed done
AMBARI-5418 BUG-15379 BGO window filters should not persist the selected values
AMBARI-5416 BUG-15815 Add 'Flume Agents Live' widget to Ambari dashboard
AMBARI-5411 BUG-16151 Karma integration
AMBARI-5410 BUG-15819 Provide Flume service actions
AMBARI-5409 BUG-16404 Select all option on Confirm Hosts occupies a lot of space
AMBARI-5408 BUG-16288 Flume: Verify and fixes for Ganglia monitoring and metrics
AMBARI-5405 BUG-16434 Cover main app with unit tests
AMBARI-5404 BUG-16432 Fix UI Unit tests
AMBARI-5402 BUG-16401 Remove classic dashboard view from Ambari
AMBARI-5396 BUG-16270 test_kill_process_with_children unit test error on Jenkins
AMBARI-5395 BUG-16357 Flume client model should be created
AMBARI-5394 BUG-16263 Incorrect word wrap of IDs in Jobs table in Firefox
AMBARI-5393 BUG-16334 Stop using App.get('currentServerTime'). We should use App.dateTime() only
AMBARI-5391 BUG-16339 Unit tests for steps 0-2
AMBARI-5389 BUG-15871 Stack service component data should be dynamically fetched from server
AMBARI-5383 BUG-16322 Ambari installs lzo RPMs when lzo is not listed in io.compression.codecs
AMBARI-5379 BUG-15814 Add Flume service to installer UI configs
AMBARI-5378 BUG-15712 Flume agent-side scripts and tests
AMBARI-5377 BUG-15813 Add Flume service to Ambari installer UI
AMBARI-5375 BUG-16176 Views: Dynamic Views menu (query views from server)
AMBARI-5373 BUG-16098 metainfo.xml should support os families not os types
AMBARI-5371 BUG-15683 Dashboard: dashboard actions do not work for non-admin users
AMBARI-5349 BUG-16144 Views: Embedding View with iFrame
AMBARI-5347 BUG-16155 BUG-6013 Add UI unit tests
AMBARI-5337 BUG-16010 BUG-6013 Add unit tests to Confirm Hosts and Deploy step
AMBARI-5303 BUG-15498 Some changes to OSCheck
AMBARI-5284 BUG-15593 Unit test test_start (TestAmbariServer.TestAmbariServer) fails intermittently
AMBARI-5234 BUG-15640 Add new Maintenance States to support different operation levels
AMBARI-5218 BUG-14875 Strange behavior of collapsed panels during removing properties
AMBARI-5206 BUG-15245 proxy user settings need to be set when provisioning via a blueprint
AMBARI-5199 BUG-15165 Replace $.ajax with App.ajax anywhere where it's possible
AMBARI-5120 BUG-14917 Service Start: Clients are installed on hosts in maintenance mode
AMBARI-4992 BUG-11782 Sometimes cluster installation pauses for few minutes between tasks
AMBARI-4979 BUG-14010 Limiting Ambari version to 3 digits
AMBARI-4921 BUG-15500 Blueprint not setting configs with empty default values
AMBARI-4448, AMBARI-5518 BUG-11833 Some of the configuration parameters do not have description
AMBARI-4205 BUG-15769 Add Existing Postgres Database option for Hive and Oozie Database during Ambari cluster install
AMBARI-3962 BUG-8298 Ambari starting SNMPD during the installation, but not set it to autostart on boot
AMBARI-3474, AMBARI-5387 BUG-9519 Stack definition does not provide global properties with empty values
AMBARI-1783 BUG-6083 Cluster Blueprints for Ambari