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What's new in Apache Atlas 2.2?

Features

  • (new) Deferred Action: classification propagation will be handled as a background task (AtlasTask)
  • Re-indexing: added Re-indexing as part of JAVA_PATCH
  • Model Change: created JAVA_PATCH to add new super types to existing entities
  • Export Service: added support for Business Metadata in Atlas Export API
  • Admin/AtlasTask API: added HA support for admin/task API
  • Entity definition: provided option to add mandatory attribute to existing entity definition

Enhancements

  • DSL Search:
    • added support for glossary terms and relationship
    • added support for null attribute values,
    • now uses Tinkerpop GraphTraversal instead of GremlinScriptEngine for performance improvement
    • added support search by classification and its attribute
    • added caching mechanism for translated DSL queries
  • Atlas Python Client: refactored and enhanced Atlas Python Client supporting Python 2.7
  • Search: updated free-text search processor to support Elasticsearch, Support search text with special characters, optimized pagination
  • Bulk Glossary Import: improved and enhanced Bulk Glossary Import supporting import with relations
  • Performance: improved performance of GraphHelper's guid and status getter methods
  • Authorization: enhanced Atlas authorization for Add/Update/Remove classification on entities, “admin-audits” for Atlas Admin Audits authorization
  • Notification: improved NotificationHookConsumer for Large Message Processing
  • Export/Import Service: enhanced Export/Import Service to conditionally Support Simultaneous Operations and to export Terms
  • Hive Hook: added support HiveServer2 Hook to send Lineage-only Messages
  • Apache Flink: introduced model to capture Apache Flink entities and relationships
  • GCP: introduced model to capture GCP entities and relationships
  • ADLS-Gen2: updated model for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 entities and relationships
  • Dependencies Upgrade: JanusGraph, elasticsearch, JQuery, Http core, Http Client, slf4j, log4j, ant, gremlin, Solr, groovy, netty, Kafka
  • UI: fixed Atlas Web UI to load faster in case of large number of classifications & entities
  • Docker image: improvements to Docker support
  • List of JIRAs resolved in Apache Atlas 2.2.0 release