Cloudera Private Cloud Data Services 1.5.4 Release Summary

Platform Cloudera Control Plane

Updated Longhorn
Turn on Automatic backups by default in Cloudera Embedded Container Service with in-cluster backups
Support password-protected ingress private key
(Cloudera Embedded Container Service) Update Ingress Controller Certificate action added to the API
Service Discovery Simple REST API to enable Cloudera AI Data Discovery feature
Verified that Cloudera Embedded Container Service QUORUM roles are set/used correctly
Fresh install prerequisite checks
- StorageInspection
- PortInspection
- EcsHostDnsInspection (a smaller and quicker connection check)
- JavaInspection (confirms that the hosts have the required Java version)
- IPTables (verifies that IP Tables rpm packages are installed for RHEL 8)
- CPUInspection (virtual cores)

Cloudera Private Cloud Base (7.1.9 CHF 6 , 7.1.7 SP3, 7.1.8 CHF22)
Cloudera Manager 7.11.3 CHF 6
Iceberg v2 GA on Cloudera Data Warehouse, Cloudera Data Engineering, & Cloudera AI with Ozone
OEL (RHCK Kernel Only) 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
RHEL 8.7, 8.8, 8.9. 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
K8s 1.27 & OCP 4.14

Security improvement to enable the UI when port 80 is blocked on k8s cluster ingress level.
Spark Connect for interactive development via external Jupyter notebook. This feature is limited to only Spark 3.4 VC with 7.1.8 runtime on a subset of connectors.
Initialization of virtual clusters with password-protected private keys

Removed the need for a bind user to retrieve users and groups. Cloudera Data Warehouse now uses Kerberos tickets to do this under the hood automatically
Support for custom pod sizing for LLAP Virtual Warehouses, HMS Service and Improvements to the UI
Added support in Hue for LLM-based SQL generation (Preview)
Enabled Impala Audit Logs and audit log storage in HDFS
Support for mTLS enabled databases for HMS
Improvements to Quota management
Automatic Spill to HDFS