Hello Oozie community,
The release candidate 2 for Oozie 4.0.0 is available. (Critical bug fixes from RC1 and excluding 'workflowgenerator' from release tarball) Recap from previous 4.0.0 RCs, Oozie 4.0.0 has major features such as Hcatalog Integration, SLA Monitoring (with Dashboard in UI) and JMS Messaging. It has several other important bug fixes. You can refer to the release-log.txt for all the features and fixes. Keys to verify the signature of the release artifact are available at http://www.apache.org/dist/oozie/KEYS Please download, try out the release, and vote by replying on the thread: http://people.apache.org/~mona/oozie-4.0.0-rc2 The release, md5 signature, gpg signature, and rat report can all be found at the above address. Note: This release also has a database schema change with additional tables and columns, so run the DB creation tool. Below are the incompatible changes in this release: OOZIE-1408 Change column type of "frequency" from int to varchar for coordinators OOZIE-1357 Can't view more than 1000 actions of a coordinator and paging does not work OOZIE-1231 Provide access to launcher job URL from web console when using Map Reduce action https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20OOZIE%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20incompatible Also, If you are checking out the HCatalog integration functionality, refer to HCatalog installation instructions at - http://hive.apache.org/docs/hcat_r0.5.0/install.html And, ActiveMQ (JMS-compliant message broker) installation instructions at - http://activemq.apache.org/getting-started.html The Oozie server settings required are enlisted in the Oozie install documentation itself. Vote closes after 3 business days on Aug 27 11:00 PDT. Thanks, Mona Chitnis
