What's New in EEP 7.0.0

Summarizes the new features in Ezmeral Ecosystem Pack (EEP) 7.0.0.

EEP 7.0.0 provides defect repair and new features as described later on this page.

EEP 7.0.0 can be used with core 6.2.0. For more information about EEP and core version support, see EEP Support and Lifecycle Status.

Core Support for Red Hat / CentOS 8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

The EEP 7.0.0 release adds support for new versions of Red Hat / CentOS and Ubuntu. For a complete list of supported operating systems, see Operating System Support Matrix.

Installer Support for EEP 7.0.0

Installer 1.14.0.0 supports EEP 7.0.0 and maintenance EEPs 6.3.1 and 5.0.5, as well as previously released EEPs. For more information, see Release History for EEPs and Installer Updates.

EEP Upgrades

The EEP 7.0.0 release includes EEP 6.3.1 and EEP 5.0.5, but no other EEP revisions. If your cluster is currently running EEP 5.x or 6.x, you can upgrade to EEP 5.0.5 or EEP 6.3.1. However, no upgrades to core 6.2.0 or EEP 7.0.0 are currently supported.

EEP 7.0.0 Ecosystem Components

AsynchHBase 1.8.2
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for AsynchHBase 1.8.2.

For release-note information, see AsyncHBase 1.8.2-2009 Release Notes.

Data Access Gateway3.0.0.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for data Access Gateway 3.0.0.0.

For release-note information, see Data Access Gateway 3.0 Release Notes.

Drill 1.16.1

EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Drill 1.16.1.

For a list of updates, see Drill 1.16.1.0-2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Flume 1.9.0.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Flume 1.9.0.0.

For a list of updates, see Flume 1.9.0.0-2009 Release Notes.

Hadoop 2.7.4.0
Beginning with release 6.2.0 and EEP 7.0.0, Hadoop and YARN are removed from core and provided as a collection of ecosystem components.

For information about the Hadoop/YARN packages, see Installing Hadoop and YARN.

For release note information, see Hadoop 2.7.4.0-2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

HBase 1.4.12.0

EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Apache HBase 1.4.12.0. For information about new features, patches, and known issues, see HBase 1.4.12.0-2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

For HBase documentation, see HBase.

Hive 2.3

EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Hive 2.3.

For a list of new features and updates, see Hive 2.3.7-2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Hue 4.6.0.0 with Livy 0.5.0

EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Hue 4.6.0.0 with Livy 0.5.0.

For a list of new features and updates, see Hue 4.6.0.0 - 2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Impala 2.12.0.200
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Impala 2.12.0.200.

For a list of updates, see Impala 2.12.0.200 - 2009 Release Notes.

Kafka Schema Registry 5.1.2.0
Kafka Schema Registry 5.1.2.0 is released for general availability. For a list of updates, see Kafka Schema Registry 5.1.2.0 - 2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.
KSQL 5.1.2.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for KSQL 5.1.2.0. This release includes the following security enhancements:
  • You can specify a custom SSL truststore file location through properties set from the command line or in the ksql-server.properties file.
  • Authentication, encryption (SSL/TLS), and impersonation are supported between the KSQL client and KSQL server.
  • For non-secure clusters, impersonation and authentication are disabled for Kafka REST and Kafka Connect, by default.

To configure the custom truststore, see: KSQL Security.

For information about configuration parameters for security, see KSQL Security Parameters.

For a list of updates, see KSQL 5.1.2.0 - 2009 (MEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Monitoring
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for new versions of the monitoring components (Collectd, Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Grafana, Kibana, and OpenTSDB). In addition, new certificates added to release 6.2.0 simplify the installation of log monitoring. For a summary of the installation changes, see Installation and Upgrade Notes (Release 6.2.0).

For release-note information, see Monitoring Components - EEP 7.0.0 Release Notes.

S3 Gateway 2.0.0.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for the 2.0.0.0 release of the S3 Gateway. For a list of new features, see S3 Gateway 2.0.0.0 - 2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.
Oozie 5.2.0.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Oozie 5.2.0.0.

For a list of updates, see Oozie 5.2.0.0 - 2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Pig 0.17.0.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Pig 0.17.0.0.

For a list of updates, see Pig 0.17.0.0 - (EEP 7.0.0) 2009 Release Notes.

Sentry 1.7.0
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Sentry 1.7.0.

For a list of updates, see Sentry 1.7.0 - 2009 (MEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Spark 2.4.5

EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Spark 2.4.5.0.

For a list of new features and updates, see Spark 2.4.5-2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Sqoop 1.4.7
EEP 7.0.0 includes support for Sqoop 1.4.7.

For a list of updates, see Sqoop 1.4.7 - 2009 (EEP 7.0.0) Release Notes.

Deprecated Components and Features

Metering
EEP 7.0.0 does not support metering.
Myriad
Myriad is not supported in EEP 7.0.0 and later. References to Myriad have been removed from the release 6.2.0 documentation.
Sqoop2
Sqoop2 is not supported in EEP 7.0.0 and later. References to Sqoop2 have been removed from the release 6.2.0 documentation.
Sqoop TDCH
The Connector for Teradata (Sqoop TDCH) is not supported in EEP 7.0.0 and later. References to the connector have been removed from the release 6.2.0 documentation.