CHANGELOG.md

0.6.2

Automatically delete old files in Nimbus's inbox. Configurable with “nimbus.cleanup.inbox.freq.secs” and “nimbus.inbox.jar.expiration.secs”
Redirect System.out and System.err to log4j
Added “topology.worker.child.opts” config, for topology-configurable worker options.
Use Netflix‘s Curator library for Zookeeper communication. Workers now reconnect to Zookeeper rather than crash when there’s a disconnection.
Bug fix: DRPC server no longer hangs with too many concurrent requests. DPRC server now requires two ports: “drpc.port” and “drpc.invocations.port”
Bug fix: Multilang resources are now extracted from the relevant jar on the classpath when appropriate. Previously an error would be thrown if the resources/ dir was in a jar.
Bug fix: Fix race condition in unit testing where time simulation fails to detect that Storm cluster is waiting due to threads that are not alive

storm client “activate” and “deactivate” commands
storm client “rebalance” command
Nimbus will automatically detect and cleanup corrupt topologies (this would previously give an error of the form “file storm...ser cannot be found”).
“storm” client will not run unless it's being used from a release.
Topology jar path now passed in using a java property rather than an environment variable.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is now set on worker processes appropriately.
Replaced jvyaml with snakeyaml. UTF-8 YAML files should now work properly.
Upgraded httpclient, httpcore, and commons-codec dependencies.

New serialization system based on Kryo
Component and stream ids are now strings
Pluggable stream groupings
Storm now chooses an unused port for Zookeeper in local mode instead of crashing when 2181 was in use.
Better support for defining topologies in non-JVM languages. The Thrift structure for topologies now allows you to specify components using a Java class name and a list of arguments to that class's constructor.
Bug fix: errors during the preparation phase of spouts or bolts will be reported to the Storm UI
Bug fix: Fixed bugs related to LinearDRPC topologies where the last bolt implements FinishedCallback
Bug fix: String greater than 64K will now serialize properly
Generalized type of anchors in OutputCollector methods to Collection from List.
Improved logging throughout.
In the “worker.childopts” config, %ID% will be replaced by the worker port.
Significant internal refactorings to clean up the codebase.

LinearDRPCTopologyBuilder, a polished DRPC implementation,
Improved custom serialization support. no longer need to provide “token” ids.
Fallback on Java serialization by default. Can be turned off by setting “topology.fall.back.on.java.serialization” to false.
Improved “storm kill” command. Can override the wait time with “-w” flag.
Display topology status in Storm UI
Changed Thrift namespace to avoid conflicts
Better error messages throughout
Storm UI port is configurable through “ui.port”
Minor improvements to Clojure DSL

Nimbus and supervisor daemons can now share a local dir.
Greatly improved Clojure DSL for creating topologies.
Increased the default timeouts for startup of workers and tasks.
Added the commands “localconfvalue”, “remoteconfvalue”, and “repl” to the storm script.
Better error message when “storm jar” can't find the nimbus host in the configuration.

No longer need any native dependencies to run Storm in local mode. Storm now uses a pure Java messaging system in local mode
Fixed logging configurations so that logging is no longer suppressed when including the Storm release jars on the classpath in local mode.

Changed ISerialization's “accept” interface to not annotate the Class with the generic type
Made Config class implement Map and added helper methods for setting common configs