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Falcon - Compatibility

Compatibility

0.6-incubating Version Compatibility Matrix

  • Hadoop 2.5.0 and above
  • Oozie 4.0.0 and above
  • Hive 0.11.0 and above
  • HCatalog 0.11.0 and above
  • Active MQ 5.4.3 and above
  • Titan 0.4.2 and above but below 0.5

0.6-incubating Tested Compatibility

  • Hadoop 2.6.0
  • Oozie 4.1.0
  • Hive 0.14.0
  • HCatalog 0.14.0
  • Active MQ 5.4.3
  • Titan 0.4.2
  • Java 1.6, Java 1.7

Note : Oozie versions below 4.1.0 are not compatible with Java 1.7

0.6-incubating Release Notes

Major additions are listed below. Refer to CHANGES.txt for detailed issues addressed in this release.

  • Security - Authorization, SSL
  • Lineage - More complete with better API
  • Recipes
  • Usability improvements - Dry run, entity summary, Pagination, etc.
  • Operability - Alerts, Audits, etc.
  • Refactoring - Messaging, Orchestration of workflows, etc.
  • Extension points for developers
  • Many bug fixes

0.6-incubating Upgrade Instructions

Please follow these instructions when upgrading from an older release.

Upgrading from 0.5-incubating

0.6-incubating is backwards incompatible with 0.5-incubating. It is recommended that user do not migrate from 0.5 to 0.6. However if the user must migrate from 0.5-incubating to 0.6-incubating, user should [[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FALCON/Index][follow these instructions]

Upgrading from 0.4-incubating

It is not possible to upgrade to 0.6-incubating from 0.4-incubating.

Upgrading from 0.3-incubating

It is not possible to upgrade to 0.6-incubating from 0.3-incubating.