KSQL 6.0.0.100 - 2201 (EEP 8.1.0) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Kafka.
Version 6.0.0.100
Release Date January 2022
HPE Version Interoperability See EEP Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/ksql
GitHub Release Tag 6.0.0.100-eep-810
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names See Package Names for Ezmeral Ecosystem Packs (EEPs).

New in This Release

KSQL 6.0.0.100 - 2201 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) support (valid for core 7.0.0 and later). .
  • CVE fixes.
  • Bug fixes.

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
GitHub Commit Number

Date

(YYYY-MM-DD)

MapR Fix Number and Description
59d3a86 2022-01-26 MAPR-KAFKA-839 Updated log4j version to 1.3.1-mapr
8ed2a69 2022-01-25 MAPR-KAFKA-837 Avoid IndexOutOfBounds error
e475458 2022-01-25 MAPR-KAFKA-837 Update vert.x version to the one which is works with netty 4.1.69.Final
3036b52 2022-01-19 MAPR-KAFKA-836 Add providers before vert.x starts to read security properties
a69ebf6 2021-12-21 MAPR-KAFKA-792 FIPS support was added with changes in vertx-core
7f7bce7 2021-12-17 MAPR-KAFKA-803 Changed kafka-streams-test-utils version to eep snapshot
a1edebe 2021-12-01 MAPR-KAFKA-808 Kafka-ksql CVE fixes (additional fix)
2f50a62 2021-11-25 MAPR-KAFKA-808 Kafka-ksql CVE fixes
0446c5e 2021-11-24 MAPR-KAFKA-800 Skip already existing stream creation by KSQL
19ffc24 2021-11-15 MAPR-KAFKA-798 KSQL cli logs contain errors about metrics submission
ea4cd7a 2021-11-11 MAPR-KAFKA-796 Update dependencies versions
82d7c5f 2021-10-27 MAPR-KAFKA-784 Add security java options if FIPS mode is enabled
cf49faf 2021-10-15 MAPR-KAFKA-782 All eep jars that can be taken from /opt/mapr/kafka was excluded
For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in Github.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • You cannot upgrade KSQL from 4.x to 5.x/6.x versions; you must uninstall KSQL 4.x and then install the newer version.
  • Concurrent queries on a table can result in a null pointer exception.
  • The SHOW TOPICS command does not print information about active consumers and consumer groups.
  • MAPR-KAFKA-437: Dropping streams/tables may take up to five minutes. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”
  • MAPR-KAFKA-427: KSQL server periodically responds with a 403 code only. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”

Resolved Issues

  • None.