_posts/2013-11-06-release_of_apache_bigtop

--- layout: post status: PUBLISHED published: true title: Release of Apache Bigtop 0.7.0 id: e88d5875-2678-4153-a48b-f4b179c1b125 date: '2013-11-06 09:25:01 -0500' categories: bigtop tags: - bigtop permalink: bigtop/entry/release_of_apache_bigtop_0 --- Exciting times for the <a title="Apache Bigtop" href="http://bigtop.apache.org/">Apache Bigtop</a> community and the <a title="Apache Hadoop" href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">Apache Hadoop</a> ecosystem at large with the release of the brand new <a title="Release announcement" href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/bigtop-user/201311.mbox/browser">Apache Bigtop 0.7.0</a>! This new release brings tons of new features and fixes for the beloved 100% community and open source driven big data distribution. Among the new features: <ul> <li> Addition of <a href="http://phoenix-hbase.blogspot.com/">Phoenix</a>, the Apache HBase SQL layer project </li> <li> Addition of <a href="http://spark.incubator.apache.org/">Apache Spark (incubating)</a>, the general-purpose cluster computing system </li> <li> A brand new SolrCloud 4.5 integration with HDFS </li> <li> Improvement to our puppet recipes so setting up your Apache Bigtop toolchain will be easier than ever </li> <li> Addition of a new script init-hdfs.sh to initialize Apache HDFS filesystem structure so you can get up and running without manually setting up a complex directory structure </li> <li> Add flexibility in the way <a href="http://oozie.apache.org/">Apache Oozie</a> manages its <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/">Apache Tomcat</a> application </li> <li> Add a new standard location to install SQL connectors and other plug-ins </li> </ul> Also this releases fixes: <ul> <li> Libsnappy is now included in <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">Apache Hadoop</a> packages </li> <li> Clean up some dependencies throughout our packages </li> <li> Update to our documentation </li> </ul> <ul> </ul> Of course this release brings its set of upgrades: <ul> <li> Apache Hadoop 2.0.6-alpha </li> <li> Apache Giraph 1.0.0 </li> <li> Apache Flume 1.4.0 </li> <li> Apache Pig datafu 1.0.0 </li> <li> Apache Crunch 0.7.0 </li> <li> Apache HBbase 0.94.12 </li> <li> Apache Hive 0.11.0 </li> <li> Hue 2.5.1 </li> <li> Apache Mahout 0.7.5 </li> <li> Apache Solr 4.5.0 </li> </ul> And as usual Apache Bigtop supports and provide convenience artifacts for a wide array of GNU/Linux distributions: <ul> <li> Centos 5<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=centos5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Centos 6<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=centos6/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Fedora 17<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=fedora17/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Fedora 18<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=fedora18/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Ubuntu Lucid<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=lucid/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Ubuntu Precise<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=precise/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> Ubuntu Quetzal<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=precise/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> OpenSUSE 12<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=opensuse12/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> <li> SLES11<a href="http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.7.0/label=sles11/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/output/"></a> </li> </ul> With convenience repositories available: from <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.7.0/repos/">http://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.7.0/repos/</a> Overall Apache Bigtop 0.7.0 is a great release and is in the continuity of what the previous ones brought to the field: <ul> <li> Stability </li> <li> Reliability </li> <li> Feature rich </li> </ul> The first release candidate uncovered a few issues which were promptly fixed for the following and last release candidate RC1. As a developer of the distribution and a user, everything felt right and worked out of the box. I was even able to set up in a very short time an <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">Apache Hadoop</a> cluster shipping its logs to <a href="http://flume.apache.org/">Apache Flume</a> and aggregating them into an <a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/">ElasticSearch</a> cluster. Everything being visualized with <a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/">Kibana</a>. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the members Apache Bigtop community for all the effort put into such a great community and distribution. I would also like to encourage everyone to give a try to our latest release and to not hesitate to come in, participate and give any feedback on our mailing lists: <a href="http://bigtop.apache.org/mail-lists.html">http://bigtop.apache.org/mail-lists.html</a>  .

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