Engine Upgrade 1.4.0

Cloudera Data Science Workbench 1.4.0 ships version 5 of the base engine image.

Cloudera Data Science Workbench 1.4.0 (and later) ships version 5 of the base engine image which includes the following versions of R and Python:

R - 3.4.1
Python - 2.7.11, 3.6.1

Pre-installed Packages in Engine 7

For details about the packages included in the base engine, see Cloudera Data Science Workbench Engine Versions and Packaging.

Additionally, Cloudera Data Science Workbench will now alert you when a new engine version is available. Make sure you test and upgrade existing projects to Base Image v5 (Project Settings > Engine) to take advantage of the latest fixes.