Spark 2.4.4.200 - 2101 (EEP 6.3.2) Release Notes
This section provides reference information, including new features, patches, and known issues for Spark 2.4.4.
The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Distribution for Apache Hadoop. For more information, you may also wish to consult the open-source Spark 2.4.4 Release Notes.
These release notes contain only HPE-specific information and are not necessarily cumulative in nature. For information about how to use the release notes, see Ecosystem Component Release Notes.
| Spark Version | 2.4.4 |
| Release Date | January 2021 |
| MapR Version Interoperability | See Component Versions for Released EEPs and EEP Components and OS Support. |
| Source on GitHub | https://github.com/mapr/spark |
| GitHub Release Tag | 2.4.4-mapr-2101 |
| Maven Artifacts | https://repository.mapr.com/maven/ |
| Package Names | Navigate to https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/ and select your EEP and OS to view the list of package names. |
IMPORTANT
- Beginning with EEP 6.0.0, the keyStore and
trustStore password can be removed from
spark-defaults.confand set in/opt/mapr/conf/ssl-client.xml. - Beginning with EEP 6.0.0, after an upgrade,
the previous version's configuration files are saved in the
/opt/mapr/sparkdirectory. - MapR 6.1.0 with EEP 6.0.0 and later support simplified security. If you enable security on your MapR cluster, MapR scripts automatically configure Spark security features.
Hive Support
This version of Spark supports integration with Hive, but has the following exceptions:
- Hive-on-Spark is not supported.
- Spark-SQL is supported, but is not fully compatible with Hive. See the Apache Spark documentation and the MapR Spark documentation for details.
New in This Release
- For a complete list of new features, see the open-source Spark 2.4.4 Release Notes.
Fixes
This HPE release includes the following new fixes since the latest data-fabric Spark release. For details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.
| GitHub Commit | Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 93c13d1 | 2020/09/17 | MapR [SPARK-795] - extended logging for Spark Streaming and Structured Streaming |
| 4a16ca2 | 2020/10/26 | MapR [SPARK-703] Fix org.codehaus.jackson vulnerability |
| 86dcb1f | 2020/10/29 | MapR [SPARK-790] Update XercesImpl to 2.12.0 or newer for mapr-ojai-driver |
| 6947744 | 2020/11/03 | MapR [SPARK-804] sparkContext.loadFromMapRDB throwing RuntimeException in scala code |
| d627e2b | 2020/11/19 | MapR [SPARK-812] Update Ant version to avoid CVE-2020-1945 |
| 39aeff0 | 2020/11/22 | MapR [SPARK-819] CVE-2019-0205: Update Thrift version to v0.13.0 |
| 05138f5 | 2020/11/30 | [SPARK-33405][BUILD][2.4] Upgrade commons-compress to 1.20 |
| 6bf5fc0 | 2020/11/30 | MapR [SPARK-822] WS-2019-0379: update commons-codec jar for spark |
| fbca5d3 | 2020/12/03 | [SPARK-31095][BUILD][2.4] Upgrade netty-all to 4.1.47.Final |
| cb91f89 | 2020/12/09 | MapR [SPARK-824] CVE-2020-11612: Netty vulnerabilities |
| 141fd70 | 2020/12/21 | MapR [SPARK-831] Can't download event logs from SHS for spark 2.4.4 |
| 4e96618 | 2020/12/29 | MapR [SPARK-832] Multiple Vulnerabilities including Spark and hive jars found |
| 7bba98f | 2021/01/04 | MapR [SPARK-776] IllegalArgumentException: Null user is thrown when using some methods from SparkContext |
Known Issues
- None.
Resolved Issues
- None.