The Apache MADlib team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.13 release.
The main goals of this release are: New features: * New module: Graph - HITS (MADLIB-1124, MADLIB-1151) * k-NN: - Added additional distance metrics (MADLIB-1059) - Added list of neighbors in output table (MADLIB-1129) * MLP: Added grouping support (MADLIB-1149) * Cross Validation: Improved the stats reporting in output table (MADLIB-1169) * Correlation: Improved quality of results by ignoring only a NULL value and not the whole row containing the NULL (MADLIB-1166) Bug fixes: - Fixed issue with Decision Trees (DT) trained in older versions not being usable in predict of v1.12 (MADLIB-1161) - Fixed invalid assert statement in DT (MADLIB-1164) - Improved feature array handling in DT (MADLIB-1173) - Fixed install-check failures on non-default schema installation (MADLIB-1177, 1184) Other: - Updated PyXB from 1.2.4 to 1.2.6. (MADLIB-1103) This change eliminates the need to remove part of PyXB codebase as a GPL-workaround. - Updated the naming for gppkg (MADLIB-1183) All release changes can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/MADlib+1.13 You can download the source release and convenience binary packages from Apache MADlib's download page here: http://madlib.apache.org/download.html Alternatively, you can download through an ASF mirror near you: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/madlib/1.13 ---- Apache MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods for structured and unstructured data. The MADlib mission: to foster widespread development of scalable analytic skills, by harnessing efforts from commercial practice, academic research, and open-source development. We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at https://madlib.apache.org ---- Thank you, everyone who contributed to the MADlib 1.13 release. We look forward to continued community participation for the next release. Regards, Your Apache MADlib team