Dear Atlas community,
Since Apache Atlas 2.1 was released, there are many new features,
improvements and fixes. Here are few features/enhancements since last
release, Apache Atlas 2.1:
- Introduced Deferred Action - Tag propagation will be handled as
a background process (AtlasTask)
- Added Re-indexing as JAVA_PATCH
- Created JavaPatch to add new super types to existing entities
- Supported for Business Metadata in Atlas Export API
- Supported HA for admin/task API
- Enhanced export service to export Terms
- Added new models and addition attributes to Atlas for Apache
Flink, GCP and ADLS Gen 2
- Added support to Configure HiveServer2 Hook to send Lineage-only Messages
- Improved and enhanced Bulk Glossary Import supporting import
with relations
- Dependency between Atlas and Kafka Zookeeper removed
- Improved performance of GraphHelper's guid and status getter methods
- Added new privilege - "admin-audits" for Atlas Admin Audits authorization
- Basic search Improvements - search text with special characters,
optimize pagination
- Updated free-text search processor to support Elasticsearch
- Refactored and enhanced Atlas Python Client supporting Python 2.7
- DSL Search enhancements - Support glossary terms and
relationship, can handle null attribute values, Java Tinkerpop
Traversals instead of GremlinScriptEngine, support search by
classification and its attribute, Caching mechanism for translated dsl
queries
- Enhanced Export/Import Service to conditionally Support
Simultaneous Operations
- Enhanced NotificationHookConsumer for Large Message Processing
- Enhanced Atlas authorization for Add/Update/Remove
classification on entities
- Provided option to add mandatory attribute to existing entity definition
- Fixed Atlas UI to load faster in case of large number of
classifications & entities
- Updated versions of dependent libraries/components: JanusGraph,
elasticsearch, JQuery, Http core, Http Client, slf4j, log4j, ant,
gremlin, Solr, groovy, netty, Kafka
There are around 336 plus commits on branch 2.0 and 205 resolved
issues with fix version 2.2.0 after 2.1.0 release.
With these significant improvements in place, it is time for the next
release of Apache Atlas!
I propose to release Apache Atlas 2.2 by early next month. Please
review and send your comments.
Regards,
Sidharth
