About Release 7.6.1
This site contains documentation for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric release 7.6.1, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
7.6.1 Installation
This section contains information about installing and upgrading HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
7.6.1 Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
7.6.1 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
7.6.1 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other data-fabric version documentation.
- Products Covered in the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Documentation
  This section lists the products covered in the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric documentation portal and provides links to the related product documentation.
- Installer
  You must download and run the Installer setup script before you can start the Installer web interface or issue Installer Stanza commands.
- Interoperability Matrices
  This section provides tables that show the operating system (OS), JDK, ecosystem, and data-fabric client support for the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. Check these tables for information about software compatibility.
- Ecosystem Component Release Notes
  The following release notes contain information for the components included in the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
- Ecosystem Pack (EEP) Reference
  This section contains links to information that is specific to a given EEP.
- Control System Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Control System.
- Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric.
- Thin Client Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the lightweight client applications that use the Data Access Gateway to send requests to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
- Security Vulnerabilities
  This section describes how to find information about potential security vulnerabilities in HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software.
- Previous Versions
  This page contains links to the documentation for releases that are currently supported or have recently reached end-of-life.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Edge
  This section contains information about HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Edge, which is a small footprint edition of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Edge is designed to capture, process, and analyze IoT data close to the source.
- Support Articles in the HPE Support Center
  Data Fabric support articles moved to the HPE Support Center in 2022, changing the way you find and access the support articles.
- Doc Site Available as a PDF
  Provides a link to the downloadable PDF file containing all the information for the current release.
- Product Licensing
  Provides information related to product licensing.
- Other Resources
  This page provides links to additional resources such as on-demand training, videos, blogs, and the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric community.
- Contact HPE
  Provides a link to contact HPE Sales or Support.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Kafka Streams 2.6.1.500 - 2304 (EEP 9.1.1) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Kafka. See Apache Kafka 2.6.1 release notes and Apache Kafka Streams homepage for more information.

Version	2.6.1.500
Release Date	April 2023
HPE Version Interoperability	See EEP Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub	https://github.com/mapr/kafka
GitHub Release Tag	2.6.1.500-eep-911
Maven Artifacts	https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names	See Package Names for Ecosystem Packs (EEPs).

New in This Release

Kafka Streams 2.6.1.500 - 2304 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

Bug fixes
CVEs fixes

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:

GitHub Commit Number	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Fix Number and Description
71263ef2e0	2023-04-03	ECO-284 Security:: CVE:: Vulnerable version of jackson-databind bundled as part of MEP 9.1.1 -> Kafka binaries.
9893d858b5	2021-05-21	KAFKA-12820: Upgrade maven-artifact dependency to resolve CVE-2021-26291
8022fd4bf5	2020-12-10	MINOR: remove duplicate code from resetByDuration (#9699)
1a860761c3	2021-04-12	KAFKA-9527: fix NPE when using time-based argument for Stream Resetter Tool (#10042)
fb86d71eb6	2023-03-17	KAFKA-932 Update kafka-evenstream for EEP 9.1.1 release

For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

Known Issues and Limitations

Transactions are not supported.
Pattern subscription is not supported.
The application reset tool hangs if it runs when the Kafka Streams application is running.
The application reset tool may throw a Null Pointer Exception when the date or duration parameter is used.
The application reset tool does not reset to intermediate offset if the topic has multiple partitions.
MAPR-KAFKA-581: Stream hangs in rebalancing state. The workaround is to set a larger timeout. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”

Resolved Issues

None.