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Apache Kudu 1.12.0 released

Posted 18 May 2020 by Hao Hao

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.12.0!

The new release adds several new features and improvements, including the following:

  • Kudu now supports native fine-grained authorization via integration with Apache Ranger. Kudu may now enforce access control policies defined for Kudu tables and columns stored in Ranger. See the authorization documentation for more details.
  • Kudu’s web UI now supports proxying via Apache Knox. Kudu may be deployed in a firewalled state behind a Knox Gateway which will forward HTTP requests and responses between clients and the Kudu web UI.
  • Kudu’s web UI now supports HTTP keep-alive. Operations that access multiple URLs will now reuse a single HTTP connection, improving their performance.
  • The kudu tserver quiesce tool is added to quiesce tablet servers. While a tablet server is quiescing, it will stop hosting tablet leaders and stop serving new scan requests. This can be used to orchestrate a rolling restart without stopping on-going Kudu workloads.
  • Introduced auto time source for HybridClock timestamps. With --time_source=auto in AWS and GCE cloud environments, Kudu masters and tablet servers use the built-in NTP client synchronized with dedicated NTP servers available via host-only networks. With --time_source=auto in environments other than AWS/GCE, Kudu masters and tablet servers rely on their local machine’s clock synchronized by NTP. The default setting for the HybridClock time source (--time_source=system) is backward-compatible, requiring the local machine’s clock to be synchronized by the kernel’s NTP discipline.
  • The kudu cluster rebalance tool now supports moving replicas away from specific tablet servers by supplying the --ignored_tservers and --move_replicas_from_ignored_tservers arguments (see KUDU-2914 for more details).
  • Write Ahead Log file segments and index chunks are now managed by Kudu’s file cache. With that, all long-lived file descriptors used by Kudu are managed by the file cache, and there’s no longer a need for capacity planning of file descriptor usage.

The above is just a list of the highlights, for a more complete list of new features, improvements and fixes please refer to the release notes.

The Apache Kudu project only publishes source code releases. To build Kudu 1.12.0, follow these steps:

For your convenience, binary JAR files for the Kudu Java client library, Spark DataSource, Flume sink, and other Java integrations are published to the ASF Maven repository and are now available.

The Python client source is also available on PyPI.

Additionally, experimental Docker images are published to Docker Hub.

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