What's New in EEP 9.3.1

Summarizes the new features and product updates in Ecosystem Pack (EEP) 9.3.1.

EEP 9.3.1 can be used with releases:
  • 7.8.0
  • 7.9.0
For more information about EEP and core version support, see EEP Support and Lifecycle Status.

EEP 9.3.1 Version Updates

EEP 9.3.1 provided major updates to Airflow, Drill, and Spark. Other components received minor updates. The following table summarizes the version updates for EEP 9.3.1:
Component EEP 9.3.0 Version EEP 9.3.1 Version Major/Minor Update
Airflow 2.9.1.0 2.9.3.0 Major
Collectd 5.12.0.660 5.12.0.750 Minor
DAG 6.3.0.1 6.3.0.2 Minor
Drill 1.20.3.300 1.21.2.0 Major
Grafana 7.5.10.600 7.5.10.650 Minor
Hadoop 3.3.5.400 3.3.5.500 Minor
Hive 3.1.3.600 3.1.3.650 Minor
Hue 4.11.0.100 4.11.0.200 Minor
Kibana 6.8.8.650 6.8.8.700 Minor
OpenTSDB 2.4.1.650 2.4.1.700 Minor
Spark 3.5.1.0 3.5.2.0 Major
Tez 0.10.2.400 0.10.2.450 Minor

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

The following components are unchanged for EEP 9.3.0:
  • AsyncHBase 1.8.2
  • Elasticsearch 6.8.8.760
  • Ezotelcol 0.80.0.39
  • Fluentd 1.10,3.660
  • HBase 1.4.14.700
  • Kafka Connect HDFS 10.2.6.0
  • Kafka Connect JDBC 10.7.4.0
  • Kafka REST 7.6.0.0
  • Kafka Schema Registry 7.6.0.0
  • Kafka Streams 3.6.1.0
  • KSQL 7.6.0.0
  • Livy 0.8.0.0
  • NiFi 1.19.1.100
  • Ranger 2.4.0.0
  • 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
  • Zeppelin 0.10.1.100

Component Updates

Airflow 2.9.3.0

EEP 9.3.1 updated Airflow to version 2.9.3.0. See Airflow 2.9.3.0 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Collectd 5.12.0.750

EEP 9.3.1 updated Collectd to version 5.12.0.750. See Monitoring Components - EEP 9.3.1 Release Notes.

DAG 6.3.0.2

EEP 9.3.1 updated Data Access Gateway to version 6.3.0.2. See Data Access Gateway 6.3.0.2 Release Notes.

Drill 1.21.2.0

EEP 9.3.1 updated Drill to version 1.21.2.0. See Drill 1.21.2.0 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Grafana 7.5.10.650

EEP 9.3.1 updated Grafana to version 7.5.10.650. See Monitoring Components - EEP 9.3.1 Release Notes.

Hadoop 3.3.5.500

EEP 9.3.1 updated Hadoop to version 3.3.5.500. See Hadoop 3.3.5.500 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Hive 3.1.3.650

EEP 9.3.1 updated Hive to version 3.1.3.650. See Hive 3.1.3.650 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Hue 4.11.0.200

EEP 9.3.1 updated Hue to version 4.11.0.200. See Hue 4.11.0.200 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Kibana 6.8.8.700

EEP 9.3.1 updated Kibana to version 6.8.8.700. See Monitoring Components - EEP 9.3.1 Release Notes.

OpenTSDB 2.4.1.700

EEP 9.3.1 updated OpenTSDB to version 2.4.1.700. See Monitoring Components - EEP 9.3.1 Release Notes.

Spark 3.5.2.0

EEP 9.3.1 updated Spark to version 3.5.2.0. See Spark 3.5.2.0 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Tez 0.10.2.450

EEP 9.3.1 updated Tez to version 0.10.2.450. See Tez 0.10.2.450 (EEP 9.3.1) Release Notes.

Monitoring Components Are Not Present in EEP 9.3.1

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 9.3.1 and core 7.9.0 can be used with JDK 11 or JDK 17. However, Installer 1.18.1.0 is not supported on JDK 17. Therefore, installations of or upgrades to EEP 9.3.1 and core 7.9.0 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 9.3.1:
  • Flume
  • Oozie
  • Pig
  • S3 Gateway
  • Sqoop

For more information, see Discontinued Ecosystem Components.

Installer Support for EEP 9.3.1

Installer 1.18.1.0 supports EEP 9.3.1 and previously released EEPs. For a list of the EEPs that are supported by different versions of the Installer, see Installer EEP Support.

Installer 1.18.1.0 is not supported for use with JDK 17. In addition, Installer 1.18.1.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 9.3.1 Ecosystem Components and Release Notes

For a list of the EEP 9.3.1 components and their release notes, see Ecosystem Pack 9.3.1 Release Notes.