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2.1.0

Core Platform

• Update Ambari OS Support (AMBARI-9791)
• Update Ambari JDK support (AMBARI-9784)
• Enhanced Configs (AMBARI-9794)
• Enhanced Customizable Dashboard (AMBARI-9792)
• Rack Awareness (AMBARI-6646)

Ambari Stacks: HDP

• NFS Gateway (AMBARI-9224)
• Accumulo (AMBARI-5265, AMBARI-1930)

User Views

• Deliver set of contrib Views (AMBARI-9817)

2.0.0

^{What's New}

Core Platform

• Ambari Alerts (AMBARI-6354)
• Ambari Metrics System (AMBARI-5707)
• Rolling Upgrade (AMBARI-8146)
• Automated Cluster Upgrades (AMBARI-7804)
  
• Automated Kerberization (AMBARI-7204)

Ambari Blueprints

• "Add Hosts" Blueprints API support (AMBARI-6275)

Ambari Stacks

• Service Inheritance (AMBARI-7175)
• Common Services (AMBARI-7201)

1.7.0

^{What's New}

• Ubuntu support
• Ambari Views framework
• Ambari Administration
  • Management of users/groups
  • Management of view instances
  • Management of cluster permissions
• Cancel/Abort background operation requests
• New Host Check: THP (Transparent Huge Pages)
• Download Service client configs
• Expose Ambari UI for config versioning, history and rollback
• Ability to manage -env.sh configuration files
• Ability to set configuration properties as <final>
• Migration "Jobs" tab into a "Jobs View" (e.g deliver as part of Views framework)

Ambari Stacks

• Recommendations and validations (via a "Stack Advisor")

Ambari Blueprints

• Export service configurations via Blueprint

Capabilities specific to HDP Stacks

• Install + Manage Flume
• Capacity Scheduler queue refresh
• HDFS Rebalance (AMBARI-5934)
• Delete ZooKeeper Server host component
• ResourceManager HA

1.6.1

_{What's New}

• New Host Checks
• Database Connection Test
• Simplified JDBC Driver Setup
• Stack Repository Mgmt via Ambari Web
• Bug Fixes

1.6.0

_{What's New}

• Add support for PostgreSQL DB (Ambari, Oozie, Hive Metastore)
• Ambari Blueprints

• Add support for HDP 2.1 Stack

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI/fixforversion/12325021

1.5.0

_{What's New}

• Maintenance Mode
• Rolling Restarts
• Bulk Host Operations
• Service and Component Restarts
• Decommission TTs, NMs, RSs
• Add Service
• Customize ZooKeeper Configs
• Refresh Client Configs
• Default JDK 7

• Bug fixes

1.4.3

^{What's New}

• Configuration Groups
• Staged Configuration Changes
• Ambari DB MySQL support

1.4.2

^{What's New}

• Reassign masters
  • NameNode
  • Secondary NameNode
  • ResourceManager
  • JobTracker
• HBase Multi-Master
• Simplified local repository setup
• Better host controls
  • Start/stop all host components
  • Delete host
  • Add clients to existing hosts
• Background Operations dialog off option

1.4.1

^{What's New}

• Hadoop-2 stack support
  • YARN
  • MapReduce2
• Enable NameNode HA
• Add ZooKeeper servers

1.2.5

^{What's New}

• Manage Kerberos secure cluster
• Security Enhancements
  • Setup Ambari server HTTPS
  • Master Key property encryption
  • Optional server-agent SSL communication
  • Optional Ganglia and Nagios SSL
• Customize Dashboard widgets
• Improved service controls
  • Start/stop all services
  • Better service status indicators
• Expanded host checks during install
• Ambari server can run as non-root users as well

1.2.4

^{What's New}

• Sudoer user ability for Ambari agent SSH
• Hive Metastore Oracle DB support
• Oozie Oracle DB and MySQL DB support
• Ambari DB Oracle support
• Customizable user accounts
  • Nagios
  • Smoke test user
• Stack selection page during install

1.2.3

^{What's New}

• Ability to add/remove custom configs (including core-site.xml)
• New heatmap metrics
  • Host CPU Wait I/O %
  • HBase RegionServer Metrics
• Mixed OS support
  • CentOS can be mixed with RHEL. (Version 5 and 6 can be mixed)
• Add host components
• Filter hosts by status
• Customizable Ganglia user account
• Customizable Hive Metastore Log and PID directories