Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool Release Notes

Learn about the new features, known and fixed issues, limitations, and unsupported features in the latest release of the Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool.

What's new

The Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool helps you transition to NiFi 2 more efficiently. It simplifies and accelerates the migration of flows from Cloudera Flow Management 2.x powered by NiFi 1 to Cloudera Flow Management 4.x powered by NiFi 2. The tool automates complex and repetitive tasks in updating flow configurations, reducing manual effort and ensuring compatibility with NiFi 2 features.

Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool 5.3.0 supports cloud environments and facilitates migrations from Cloudera Flow Management 2.2.9.700 to 4.2.1.700 for Data Hub clusters, in compliance with the NiFi 1.28.1-to-2.4.0 General Availability (GA) ruleset.

Support matrix

Before starting a migration with the Migration Tool, review the supported source and target version requirements to ensure a successful migration.

The table shows the supported migration paths and the required Migration Tool versions for Cloudera Flow Management on cloud.

Table 1. Supported migration paths for Cloudera Flow Management on cloud
Source Cloudera Flow Management version Target Cloudera Flow Management version Required Migration Tool version
2.2.9.400 4.2.1.400 3.0.3
2.2.9.500 4.2.1.500 5.0.3
2.2.9.600 4.2.1.600 5.2.0
2.2.9.700 4.2.1.700 5.3.0

System requirements

Before using the Migration Tool, ensure that your system meets the following requirements.

Requirement Details
Operating system Linux, macOS
Java version Java 21
Disk space At least 25 GB for NiFi distributions and working directories

Download location

The Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool software artifacts can be downloaded from the Cloudera Archive.

To access the artifacts, you must have:
  • An active Cloudera subscription agreement
  • A license key file
  • The required authentication credentials (username and password).

Download the version of the tool that matches your requirements from the Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool Repository.