Oozie 4.2.0-1607 Release Notes

Below are release notes for the Oozie component included in the MapR Converged Data Platform.
Oozie Version 4.2.0
Release Date July 29, 2016
MapR Version Interoperability See Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases) and Oozie Support Matrix
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/oozie/tree/4.2.0-mapr-1607
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names The following packages are associated with this release:
  • mapr-oozie-4.2.0.201607281407-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-oozie_4.2.0.201607281407_all.deb
  • mapr-oozie-internal-4.2.0.201607281407-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-oozie-internal_4.2.0.201607281407_all.deb

New in this Release

This release of Apache Oozie includes the following behavior change that is specific to MapR:
Logging Enhancement
When you set the user.name parameter in the job.properties file and user impersonation is enabled, the oozie.log file indicates the following information for each job:
  • The name of the user that submits the job.
  • The name of the user that actually runs the job.

Fixes

This release by MapR includes the following fixes on the base Apache release. For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.
GitHub Commit Data (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
0a24c8e 2016-07-11 MAPR-23948: Oozie jobs no longer fail with the following error: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: HADOOP_CLASSPATH.
bf46e56 2016-07-01 MAPR-23558: Oozie now stores PID files in the following directory: /opt/mapr/pid.
96efbda 2016-04-14 MAPR-23037: When you set the user.name parameter in the job.properties file and user impersonation is enabled, the oozie.log file includes the name of the user that submits the job and the user that actually runs the job.
696f2e2 2016-02-24 MAPR-22703: Log messages about installing Oozie extensions no longer display when you install and remove MapR's Oozie packages.