Atlas team, we have added a number of features and improvements in master branch and it has been more than 6 months since Apache Atlas 1.1.0 was released. I propose that we make a release of Apache Atlas 2.0
Some of the major features/updates: New features: - Upgraded component versions - Hadoop 3.1, Hive 3.1, HBase 2.0, Solr 7.5, Kafka 2.0, Janusgraph 0.3.1 - New Atlas Index Repair tool for JanusGraph - New patch framework to persist typedef patches and java patches applied to atlas - Introduce Atlas Import Transform Handler - Atlas Soft-Reference Implementation - New service-type to filter entitydef type Notification Processing enhancements: - Option to ignore/prune metadata for temporary/staging Hive tables - Updated notification processing to support batch-commits - Updated hook notification processing with option to ignore potentially incorrect hive_column_lineage - Updated Hive hook to avoid duplicate column-lineage entities; also updated Atlas server to skip duplicate column-lineage entities - Updated notification processing to propagate classifications only when specified - Improved batch processing in notificaiton handler to avoid processing of an entity multiple times Performance improvements: - Changes to avoid unnecessary lookup when creating new relationships - Update metrics query to use index query instead of graph query for faster response - Updated entity create/update to handle relationship attributes consistently If you have any updates that needs to be in 2.0 release, please prioritize them to be committed before March-27. I volunteer to be the release manager for Apache Atlas 2.0 release. Timelines planned for release activities: - Tentative date for the release will be *Friday, April 01, 2019 (PDT)* - Creation of release branch from current master: end of *Monday, March 25, 2019 (PDT)* - First release candidate to be sent for voting: end of *Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (PDT)* Thanks, Sarath
