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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