Atlas team,
We have been busy adding multiple major features and improvements in master branch for months now. And it has been more than 3 months since Apache Atlas 1.0-alpha was released. It is time for GA release of Apache Atlas 1.0! Here is a short list of major features/updates: - support for propagation of classifications along entity relationships – like lineage - fine-grained metadata security, which enables access controls up to an entity instance level - introduction of Glossary feature - introduction of relationships as a first-class type - replace use of Titan Graph DB with JanusGraph DB - DSL rewrite, to replace use of Scala based implementation with Antlr - introduction of V2 style notifications - performance improvements in Atlas Hooks, by switching to use V2 style notifications - significant updates in Atlas Web UI - introduction of Atlas hook for HBase - framework for Open Metadata & Governance (tech-preview) - support for Cassandra and Elasticsearch (tech-preview) Here are the details of release activities, along with timelines for each: - tentative date for the release will be next Friday, May-18-2018 - creation of release branch from current master: end of May-10 (PDT) - send first release candidate for vote: end of May-12 (PDT) If you have any updates that needs to be in 1.0 release, please prioritize them to be committed before May-10. I volunteer to be the release manager for Apache Atlas 1.0 release. Regards, Madhan
