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What's new in Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0

Explore the latest features and improvements in Cloudera Flow Management and see how they help modernize your data pipeline development and operations.

Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0 is built on Apache NiFi 2.4.0 and includes fixes addressing multiple Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to enhance stability, reliability, and compliance for enterprise deployments. The following sections summarize the most important updates in this release.

New NiFi components

New processors:

The following new Box processors extend integration with the Box platform.

  • CreateBoxFileMetadataInstance
  • CreateBoxMetadataTemplate
  • DeleteBoxFileMetadataInstance
  • ExtractStructuredBoxFileMetadata
  • FetchBoxFileMetadataInstance
  • ListBoxFileMetadataInstances
  • ListBoxFileMetadataTemplates
  • UpdateBoxFileMetadataInstance
New controller services:

  • ClouderaHiveConnectionPoolLookup

    You can dynamically select connections to Hive.

  • JWTBearerOAuth2AccessTokenProvider

    You can support the JWT Bearer authentication approach for OAuth2.

New flow analysis rule:

  • RequireServerSSLContextService

    You can enforce secure communication by ensuring that no server (for example, ListenHTTP or ListenTCP) can be created without an SSL context.

New flow registry client:

  • BitbucketFlowRegistryClient

    You can enable BitBucket as a backend for NiFi Registry integration.

For a full list of supported NiFi components, see the Support Matrix

Other improvements

AWS MSK (Kafka) IAM authentication

It adds support for integrating with Kafka on AWS using IAM.

Astral uv integration

It enables dynamic downloading of Python dependencies. Similar to pipx but significantly faster, it provides command-line tools for managing Python environments and libraries.

New Migration Tool version available

Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool 5.0.0. supports migrations to Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0. For upgrade and migration options, see below. For details on the tool, see the Migration Tool documentation.

Upgrade and migration options

You can upgrade from Cloudera Flow Management 4.10.0 to 4.11.0 using Cloudera Manager. For step-by-step instructions, see Upgrading from Cloudera Flow Management 4.10.0 to 4.11.0.

In-place upgrades from Cloudera Flow Management 2.1.7 and lower versions to Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0 are not supported. Flows created in NiFi 1 must be migrated to NiFi 2, and then imported into a Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0 instance running NiFi 2. For more information on this migration process and the use of the Cloudera Flow Management Migration Tool, see the Migration documentation.

Installation

To perfrom a fresh installation of Cloudera Flow Management 4.11.0, follow the steps in the Cloudera Flow Management installation workflow.