The Mid Week News - 11/04/2018 edit 
It was half term holiday week last week (sorry - forgot to say) which meant no news, but we’re back this week…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Hadoop has hit 3.1, with what looks like some significant new functionality
- Apache Solr has hit 7.3
- Cloudbreak has a 2.5 tech preview release with support for HDF
- Apache Parquet has hit a 1.10 release of it’s Map Reduce implementation
- Apache Kafka has hit 1.1
- Apache NiFi has hit 1.6
- MapR Expansion Pack has hit 5.0
- Hue has hit 4.2
- Greenplum has hit 5.7
Other technology news:
- Amazon have announced a new cheaper One Zone-IA Storage Class for S3 that doesn’t support geo redundancy, and the general availability of S3 select - summary; One Zone-IA; S3 Select; TheRegister view
- From Hortonworks, a view on the performance of Hive over local disk vs S3 cloud storage - link
- Hardly surprise, but from Datanami - Excel remains the go to Data Prep tool - link
- An update on Oracle’s new “automated” database / data warehouse strategy - link
- Microsoft have announced a public preview of soft deletes for Azure Storage Blobs - link
- MapR are now also talking about “Streams of Record” with MapR-ES - link
- We have a bunch of security announcements this week:
- CVE-2018-1308 - XXE attack through Apache Solr’s DIH’s dataConfig request parameter
- CVE-2018-1284 - Hive UDF series UDFXPathXXXX allow users to pass carefully crafted XML to access local files
- CVE-2018-1315 - Hive ‘COPY FROM FTP’ statement in HPL/SQL can write to arbitrary location if the FTP server is compromised
- CVE-2018-1282 - Hive JDBC driver is susceptible to SQL injection attack if the input parameters are not properly cleaned