[blog] Add post about 1.8.0 release Change-Id: I99fd23683e7417ca9bc836edf49a7e02e36c6b74 Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/11776 Reviewed-by: Grant Henke <granthe...@apache.org> Tested-by: Grant Henke <granthe...@apache.org>
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/commit/a0546643 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/tree/a0546643 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/diff/a0546643 Branch: refs/heads/gh-pages Commit: a054664388a545fef8e9cab554205b80dd76adb5 Parents: 1fefa84 Author: Attila Bukor <abu...@apache.org> Authored: Fri Oct 26 17:47:22 2018 +0200 Committer: Attila Bukor <abu...@apache.org> Committed: Fri Oct 26 18:56:18 2018 +0000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _posts/2018-10-26-apache-kudu-1-8-0-released.md | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/blob/a0546643/_posts/2018-10-26-apache-kudu-1-8-0-released.md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/_posts/2018-10-26-apache-kudu-1-8-0-released.md b/_posts/2018-10-26-apache-kudu-1-8-0-released.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80fa240 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-10-26-apache-kudu-1-8-0-released.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Apache Kudu 1.8.0 Released +author: Attila Bukor +--- + +The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.8.0! + +The new release adds several new features and improvements, including the +following: + +<!--more--> + +- Introduced manual data rebalancer tool which can be used to redistribute + table replicas among tablet servers +- Added support for `IS NULL` and `IS NOT NULL` predicates to the Kudu Python + client +- Multiple tooling improvements make diagnostics and troubleshooting simpler +- The Kudu Spark connector now supports Spark Streaming DataFrames +- Added Pandas support to the Python client + +The above is just a list of the highlights, for a more complete list of new +features, improvements and fixes please refer to the [release +notes](/releases/1.8.0/docs/release_notes.html). + +The Apache Kudu project only publishes source code releases. To build Kudu +1.8.0, follow these steps: + +- Download the Kudu [1.8.0 source release](/releases/1.8.0) +- Follow the instructions in the documentation to build Kudu [1.8.0 from + source](/releases/1.8.0/docs/installation.html#build_from_source) + +For your convenience, binary JAR files for the Kudu Java client library, Spark +DataSource, Flume sink, and other Java integrations are published to the ASF +Maven repository and are [now +available](https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.kudu%22%20AND%20v%3A%221.8.0%22). + +The Python client source is also available on +[PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/kudu-python/).
