General Availability release

Hive integration (ATLAS-75)

Business classification (ATLAS-76)

REST API to create new connections to Atlas (ATLAS-77)

Replication of Hive and HCat – GA (FALCON-1028)

High Availability (FALCON-1029)

UI to enable entity/process/feed management (FALCON-790)

Search UI and backend support by Free text, Entity and Tag (FALCON-914, FALCON-1095, FALCON-1121, FALCON-1122)

Kafka Source and Kafka Sink support (FLUME-2242)

Hive Sink based on the new Hive Streaming support​ (FLUME-1734)

An alternative to providing clear text passwords in Flume config (FLUME-2442)

Generate Hadoop delegation token (KAFKA-1696)

Ranger Integration for Authorization (KAFKA-1688)

Implement SASL/Kerberos (KAFKA-1686)

Import sequential datasets from mainframe (SQOOP-1272)

Netezza enhancements: skip control codes, write logs to HDFS (SQOOP-2164)

RPC throttling and quotas (HBASE-11598)

Multi-WAL Support (HBASE-5699)

Reliability and performance optimizations (HBASE-12439)

Phoenix SQL improvements: Union All, Date/Decimal types (PHOENIX-1580, PHOENIX-1662)

Phoenix support for Java UDFs (PHOENIX-538)

Phoenix support for HBase Timeline-Consistent Read High Availability (PHOENIX-1683)

Phoenix Tracing Support (PHOENIX-1115)

Phoenix Spark Driver (PHOENIX-1071

SQL improvements: Current_Date, Current_Timestamp (HIVE-5472)

Other Date/Datetime improvements, such as SerDe support for ISO 8601 format (HIVE-9298, HIVE-9564)

Support UNION (HIVE-9039) and add Interval datatype in expressions (HIVE-9792, HIVE-5021)

Call Hive UDFs from Pig (PIG-3294)

Dynamic Parallelism via Tez (PIG-4434)

General availability of Spark 1.3.1

Authorization via Ranger (SOLR-7275)

Pluggable authentication framework that proves a Kerberos plugin implementation (SOLR-7468)

Declarative Topology (STORM-561)

Rolling Upgrade (STORM-634)

Secure ATS integration (TEZ-1529)

Enhanced performance and scale (TEZ-776)

Support sort buffers larger than 2GB (TEZ-1803)

Improve distcp efficiency: reduced time and processing power needed to mirror datasets across cluster (HDFS-7535, MAPREDUCE-6248)

Support variable-length blocks (HDFS-3689)

Provide storage quotas per heterogeneous storage types (HDFS-7584)

Pluggable Authorization API (HDFS-6826)

Track and display failed DataNode storage locations in NameNode JMX and UI (HDFS-7604)

Additional DataNode and NameNode operational load metrics available through JMX (HDFS-7773)

HDFS Data at Rest Encryption (HDFS-6134)

Upgrade and reconfiguration without downtime for Slider-based applications (SLIDER-787)

No packaging required for certain Slider applications (SLIDER-668)

Non-exclusive Node Labels - where applications are given preference for the Label they specify, but not exclusive access (YARN-3214)

Fair sharing across apps for same user same queue, per queue scheduling policies (YARN-3306)

Pluggable authorization for YARN ACLs for integration with Apache Ranger (YARN-3100)

Modular architecture - introduce the concept of Knox "stacks", making it easier for customers and partners to add in APIs they wish to protect via Knox (KNOX-481, KNOX-483)

Rolling upgrade

Support for two-way SSL (KNOX-504)

Support for LDAP authentication caching (KNOX-524)

Enhance principal mapping across domains supplied with a header

Modular architecture - introduce the concept of Ranger "stacks", making it easier for customers and partners to add in authorization and secure audit support their own component(s) via Ranger (RANGER-203)

Extend support for Kafka, YARN, and Solr (RANGER-246, RANGER-248, RANGER-249)

Ranger-based KMS support for HDFS encryption (RANGER-247)

Use Solr for storing audit logs and querying (RANGER-266)

General Availability of Ambari 2.1 (see the Ambari Release Notes)

HiveServer2 action (OOZIE-1457)

Stop jobs by coordinator name (OOZIE-2108)

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