The Apache Oozie team is pleased to announce the release of Oozie 3.3.0. [This release has been driven my Mohammad Islam, I'm just ] [completing his work by pushing the bits, updating the site ] [ and making this announcement. ]
The details of the release and download location can be found at http://oozie.apache.org The highlights of this release are: * DB Tool to create/upgrade Oozie database * Add support for multiple sharelibs for each action type * Name parameterization in workflow/coordinator/bundle jobs * New workflow XML schema with several improvements * Formal parameters with default values * Global action configuration section * Allow multiple <job-xml> elements in a single action * New coordinator and bundle XML schema supporting formal parameters with default values * Improvements to the <fs> action * support for touchz * support for recursive chmod * Add support for Oozie coordinator to work in an UTC offset * Oozie web UI supports configurable timezone * Direct submission of MapReduce jobs through Oozie * Show runtime job DAG visually in Oozie console/dashboard * Support for Hbase credentials In addition it includes several improvements for performance and stability and several bug fixes. Known issues: * Oozie 3.3.0 does not work properly with Hadoop 2.0.2-alpha due to MAPREDUCE-4820. We attempted a workaround but issues still persist. * Vanilla Oozie 3.3.0 sharelib does not work with Hadoop 2.0.2-alpha because there aren't Hive, Pig, Sqoop JARs built with Hadoop 2.0.2-alpha available in the Apache Maven repository. Your help and feedback is more than welcome. For more information on how to report problems and to get involved, visit the project website at http://oozie.apache.org Special thanks to the Yahoo QA team who has extensively tested this release. This is our first release as Top Level Project, congratulations to all and thanks for helping make this happen. The Apache Oozie Team -- Alejandro
