What's New in EEP 9.4.0

Summarizes the new features and product updates in Ecosystem Pack (EEP) 9.4.0.

EEP 9.4.0 can be used with releases:
  • 7.10.0

For more information about EEP and core version support, see EEP Support and Lifecycle Status.

EEP 9.4.0 Version Updates

EEP 9.4.0 provided major updates to Spark, Hadoop, Airflow and NiFi. Other components received minor updates. The following table summarizes the version updates for EEP 9.4.0:
Component EEP 9.3.2 Version EEP 9.4.0 Version Major/Minor Update Links
Drill 1.21.2.0 1.21.2.100 Minor See Drill 1.21.2.100 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
HBase 1.4.14.700 1.4.14.750 Minor See HBase 1.4.14.750 - 2504 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Hive 3.1.3.700 3.1.3.750 Minor See Hive 3.1.3.750 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Tez 0.10.2.450 0.10.2.500 Minor See Tez 0.10.2.500 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Kafka REST 7.6.0.100 7.6.0.200 Minor See Kafka REST Proxy 7.6.0.200 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Kafka Schema Registry 7.6.0.100 7.6.0.200 Minor See Kafka Schema Registry 7.6.0.200 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Kafka Streams 3.6.1.100 3.6.1.200 Minor See Kafka Streams 3.6.1.200 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Livy 0.8.0.0 0.8.0.100 Minor See Livy 0.8.0.100 - 2504 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Ranger 2.4.0.0 2.4.0.100 Minor See Ranger 2.4.0.100 - 2504 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Zeppelin 0.10.1.100 0.10.1.200 Minor See Zeppelin 0.10.1.200 - 2504 Release Notes
Spark 3.5.2.100 3.5.5.0 Major See Spark 3.5.5.0 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Airflow 2.9.3.0 2.10.5.0 Major See Airflow 2.10.5.0 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
NiFi 1.19.1.100 1.28.0.0 Major See NiFi 1.28.0.0 - 2504 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes
Hadoop 3.3.5.600 3.4.1.0 Major See Hadoop 3.4.1.0 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes

To compare the versions of various components in different EEPs, see Component Versions for Released EEPs.

The following components are unchanged for EEP 9.4.0:
  • AsyncHBase 1.8.2
  • Collectd 5.12.0.750
  • DAG 6.3.0.2
  • Elasticsearch 6.8.8.760
  • Ezotelcol 0.80.0.39
  • Fluentd 1.10,3.660
  • Grafana 7.5.10.650
  • Hue 4.11.0.200
  • Kafka Connect HDFS 10.2.6.0
  • Kafka Connect JDBC 10.7.4.0
  • Kibana 6.8.8.700
  • OpenTSDB 2.4.1.700
  • KSQL7.6.0.100
  • Streams clients:
    • HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams C Client 0.11.3
    • HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams Python Client 0.11.3
    • HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams C#/.NET 0.11.3

Monitoring Components Are Not Present in EEP 9.3.2 or Higher Releases

Beginning with release 7.8.0 and EEP 9.3.0, the monitoring components are provided in the Data Fabric (core) repository and are not present in the EEP repository. Monitoring packages include the following:
  • mapr-collectd
  • mapr-elasticsearch
  • mapr-fluentd
  • mapr-grafana
  • mapr-kibana
  • mapr-opentsdb
For example, the RHEL monitoring packages for release 7.8.0 can be found at:
https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/v7.8.0/redhat/
The RHEL monitoring packages are not present in the repository for EEP 9.3.0 at: 
https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/MEP-9.3.0/redhat/
The same is true for the monitoring packages for Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, SLES, and Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Support for JDK 11 and JDK 17

EEP 9.4.0 and core 7.10.0 can be used with JDK 11 or JDK 17. However, Installer 1.18.0.10 is not supported on JDK 17. Therefore, installations of or upgrades to EEP 9.4.0 and core 7.10.0 must be performed manually. See Java Support Matrix and Installer Updates.

Using the monitoring components with JRE or JDK 17 is supported in EEP 9.2.0 or later.

Discontinued Components

The following components are present in earlier ecosystem packs but are not included in EEP 9.3.2 or Higher:
  • Flume
  • Oozie
  • Pig
  • S3 Gateway
  • Sqoop

For more information, see Discontinued Ecosystem Components.

Installer Support for EEP 9.4.0

Installer 1.18.0.10 supports EEP 9.4.0 and previously released EEPs. For a list of the EEPs that are supported by different versions of the Installer, see Installer EEP Support.

Installer 1.18.0.10 is not supported for use with JDK 17. In addition, Installer 1.18.0.x cannot be used with older versions of Ubuntu. For more information, see Selecting an Installer Version to Use.

EEP Upgrades

If your cluster is running EEP 8.0.0 or 8.1.0, you can upgrade to Ecosystem Pack 9.x.x.

For information about upgrading EEPs, see:
For information about upgrading to core 7.8.0 and EEP 9.3.0, see:

EEP 9.4.0 Ecosystem Components and Release Notes

For a list of the EEP 9.4.0 components and their release notes, see Ecosystem Pack 9.4.0 Release Notes.