About Release 8.0.0
This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric release 8.0.0, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
8.0.0 Installation
This section contains information about installing HPE Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
8.0.0 Upgrade
This section describes how to upgrade HPE Data Fabric software.
8.0.0 Data Fabric
HPE Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
8.0.0 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
8.0.0 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other Data Fabric version documentation.
- Products Covered in the HPE Data Fabric Documentation
  This section lists the products covered in the HPE Data Fabric documentation portal and provides links to the related product documentation.
- Installer
  You must download and run the Installer setup script before you can start the Installer web interface or issue Installer Stanza commands.
- Interoperability Matrices
  This section provides tables that show the operating system (OS), JDK, ecosystem, and Data Fabric client support for the HPE Data Fabric. Check these tables for information about software compatibility.
- Ecosystem Component Release Notes
  The following release notes contain information for the components included in the HPE Data Fabric.
- Data Fabric Ecosystem Pack (DEP) Reference
  This section contains links to DEP information that is specific to a given .
- Control System Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the HPE Data Fabric Control System.
- Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric.
- Thin Client Release Notes
  This section contains release notes for the lightweight client applications that use the Data Access Gateway to send requests to the HPE Data Fabric.
- Security Vulnerabilities
  This section describes how to find information about potential security vulnerabilities in HPE Data Fabric software.
- Previous Versions
  This page contains links to the documentation for releases that are currently supported or have recently reached end-of-life.
- HPE Data Fabric Edge
  This section contains information about HPE Data Fabric Edge, which is a small footprint edition of the HPE Data Fabric. HPE Data Fabric Edge is designed to capture, process, and analyze IoT data close to the source.
- Support Articles in the HPE Support Center
  Data Fabric support articles moved to the HPE Support Center in 2022, changing the way you find and access the support articles.
- Doc Site Available as a PDF
  Provides instructions for downloading Data Fabric documentation in PDF format.
- Product Licensing
  Provides information related to product licensing.
- Other Resources
  This page provides links to additional resources such as on-demand training, videos, blogs, and the HPE Data Fabric community.
- Contact HPE
  Provides a link to contact HPE Sales or Support.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Drill 1.20.3.250 - 2601 (EEP 9.2.4) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric distribution for Apache Drill. You may also be interested in the Apache Drill homepage and the Apache Drill release notes:

Version	1.20.3.250
Release Date	January 2026
HPE Version Interoperability	See Ecosystem Support Matrix and Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Package Names	Navigate to http://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/, and select your DEP, EEP(MEP) and OS to view the list of package names.

New in This Release

Drill 1.20.3.250 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

CVE fixes.

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base Apache release:

Commit	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Comment
7bb059e065	2025-08-29	MD-6631: Update Jackson, ASM and Maven Shade Plugin versions - Update Jackson to 2.16.1 - Bump ASM to 9.5 - Bump Maven Shade Plugin to 3.5.3

Known Issues

DRILL-8511: Experimental JSON reader (configuration option store.json.enable_v2_reader set to true) fails with IllegalStateException when a batch reaches the rows limit.

Limitations

Some unequal left joins may start failing in this release. For details, see Drill Limitations: Unequal JOIN Support.
The Hive storage plugin for Drill does not support reading of the parquet timestamp type with the int64 logical type.

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HPE Data Fabric 8.0.0 Software Documentation
Abstract	This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric Software version 8.0.0 including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated bundled ecosystem components and drivers.
Published	January 2026
Edition	8.0.0
Topic last updated	2026-01-19