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2019-04-03 Peter

Some bigish releases this week. Let’s delve into the news…

Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):

CDH 6.2 is out, including new releases of Cloudera Manager and Cloudera Navigator
Apache Impala 3.2 is out
Apache Kafka 2.2 is out
Hue 4.4 is out
Elasticsearch 7.0 RC1 is out
Confluent Open Source and Enterprise have hit 5.2
Hortonworks DataPlane Data Lifecycle Manager and Data Steward Studio are both up to 1.4

Other technology news:

Cloudera have announced Cloudera DataFlow (their new name for HDF), with a couple of new products - link
MapR have announced key new features in their next MapR Converged Data Platform release, including support for Spark and Drill on Kubernetes, and support for their filesystem as a Kubernetes persistent volume - announcement; blog post; The Register; ZDNet
Cloudera’s annual report is out, and The Register have their summary - link
Datanami have an interview with Doug Cutting - link
From The Morning Paper - Calvin - fast distributed transactions for partitioned database systems - link
Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management is generally available - link
Also on Azure Blob Storage, high performance block blobs are now aailable across all storage tiers - link
Amazon have announced a new Glacier Deep Storage storage class for Amazon S3 - link
CVE-2019-0212 - Apache HBase 2.x incorrectly applied Kerberos authorization to users of the HBase REST server