Apache Flume Apache Software Foundation

Version 1.0.0 - IncubatingΒΆ

Status of this release

This release is the first release of Apache Flume within the Apache Incubator, and is labelled and should be considered as a beta version.

Release Documentation

Changes

  • Bug
    • [FLUME-830] - flume uber jar is missing files from flume-file-channel project
    • [FLUME-831] - flume-jdbc-channel project has unnecessary direct dependency on log4j API
    • [FLUME-833] - Audit Direct Library Deps for Flume NG
    • [FLUME-835] - Issues during clean build of Flume NG
    • [FLUME-850] - Upgrade the version of Hadoop we use for HDFS sink
    • [FLUME-858] - HDFSWriterFactory is using operation == for string comparison
    • [FLUME-863] - Use of unknown sink type leads to NullPointerException
    • [FLUME-868] - RAT checks fail on builds.apache.org due to local maven repo
    • [FLUME-869] - JDBC channel tests leave derby.log in module directory
    • [FLUME-870] - LoggerSink contains two calls to Transaction#commit()
    • [FLUME-880] - HDFSFormatterFactory is using == operator for String objects
    • [FLUME-887] - Add maven assembly to build a source only artifact
    • [FLUME-891] - flume-ng script doesn’t build the classpath properly
    • [FLUME-894] - Add log4j as part of the build
    • [FLUME-898] - Create DISCLAIMER file for Flume project
    • [FLUME-900] - RELEASENOTES file needs to be ignored by RAT
    • [FLUME-902] - Remove thrift references in NG build
    • [FLUME-903] - Update project metadata in main pom
    • [FLUME-904] - Update plugin and dependency repos referenced in the main pom
    • [FLUME-905] - ExecSource silently fails after first transaction with channel
    • [FLUME-906] - Maven Avro plugin missing an entry in plugin dep management
    • [FLUME-907] - Maven assembly missing CHANGELOG and other misc files
    • [FLUME-908] - Clean out old bin and conf contents
    • [FLUME-909] - org.apache.flume.node.TestAbstractLogicalNodeManager is failing on some machines
    • [FLUME-910] - Typo in maven avro plugin groupId in plugin dep management
    • [FLUME-911] - README should reference Apache Flume rather than just Flume
    • [FLUME-912] - DEVNOTES contains outdated info
    • [FLUME-913] - slf4j-log4j binding is excluded from the dist assembly due to test scope
    • [FLUME-915] - Incorrect license information in various files
    • [FLUME-916] - DISCLAIMER file has an incorrect URL
  • Improvement
    • [FLUME-846] - Bump Avro version to 1.6.x
    • [FLUME-867] - Pollable source and sink runners should reduce poll interval after several BACKOFFs
    • [FLUME-871] - HDFS sink needs to handle blocked/hung append operation
  • Question
    • [FLUME-856] - Move data across hosts
  • Task
    • [FLUME-876] - Update README, NOTICE, LICENSE, and DEVNOTES files
    • [FLUME-878] - Write release-ready Maven assembly descriptor
    • [FLUME-879] - Document Flume’s ASF release process
    • [FLUME-885] - Set version number of project to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT for NG branch
    • [FLUME-899] - Add Release notes
    • [FLUME-901] - Make Flume NG build and pass tests against Hadoop 0.23 branch

Release Notes - Flume - Version NG alpha 2 - 20111107

  • Bug
    • [FLUME-773] - ExecSource doesn’t rollback transactions on errors
    • [FLUME-805] - HDFS sink should mangle the names of incomplete files till they are closed
    • [FLUME-815] - Test json config file has missing bind property
    • [FLUME-816] - TestJdbcChannelProvider throws OOME based on RNG values
    • [FLUME-817] - JdbcChannel can not be created by DefaultChannelFactory
    • [FLUME-818] - PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider doesn’t properly log exceptions
    • [FLUME-822] - JDBC channel lock acquisition failure during take()
    • [FLUME-823] - The properties configuration provider should fail if the configuration file is not found
    • [FLUME-825] - Need to remove dependency on hadoop core from flume-ng-core project
    • [FLUME-827] - Avro client conn failure results in 60-second wait before terminating
    • [FLUME-848] - Typo is TestHDFSEventSink path
    • [FLUME-861] - AvroSource is failing on ClosedChannelException
  • Improvement
    • [FLUME-819] - JDBC channel plugin is not registered with Flume node
    • [FLUME-820] - JDBC channel should support capacity specification.
    • [FLUME-821] - Derby schema handler should create the necessary indexes for fast lookups.
    • [FLUME-826] - Update libs
  • New Feature
    • [FLUME-775] - Support text output
    • [FLUME-814] - Add support for multiple channels to sources
  • Task
    • [FLUME-812] - Enable Apache RAT checks during Maven build
    • [FLUME-866] - Remove old plugins and log4j appender

Release Notes - Flume - Version NG alpha 1 - 20111021

  • Sub-task
    • [FLUME-737] - Port Flume OG sources and sinks to NG interfaces
    • [FLUME-739] - Create NG node configuration components
    • [FLUME-747] - Create NG command line launchers and daemon infrastructure
    • [FLUME-760] - Implement JDBC based channel implementation
    • [FLUME-761] - Implement HDFS Flume NG sink
    • [FLUME-777] - Support text output for HDFS sink
    • [FLUME-795] - Replace the non-transactional memory channel with new transactional memory channel
  • Bug
    • [FLUME-769] - FLUME-728 - TestJsonFileConfigurationProvider fails due to timing issue
    • [FLUME-784] - MemoryChannel should poll with timeout on take() rather than block indefinitely
    • [FLUME-788] - Add more test cases to Flume-NG HDFS test
    • [FLUME-803] - support re-entrant transaction for memory channel
    • [FLUME-806] - Fix cast exception in MemoryChannel due to config type changes
    • [FLUME-807] - Fix tests broken by FLUME-802 changes
    • [FLUME-809] - Fix channel syntax javadoc bug in PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider
    • [FLUME-811] - Remove logging of avro client that causes errors with proxy object methods
  • Epic
    • [FLUME-728] - Flume NG refactoring
  • Improvement
    • [FLUME-772] - MemoryChannel should push events back into channel on rollback
    • [FLUME-774] - Move HDFS sink into a separate module
    • [FLUME-781] - Add error checking to AvroCLICilent
    • [FLUME-782] - Instrument AvroSource with counters
    • [FLUME-783] - Add a batch event RPC call to AvroSource
    • [FLUME-804] - Support help and node name arguments from the command line
    • [FLUME-810] - Add help command line options to AvroCLIClient
  • New Feature
    • [FLUME-771] - Implement NG Avro source
    • [FLUME-778] - Implement NG Avro sink
    • [FLUME-779] - Create an Avro CLI for sending data to the Avro source
  • Task
    • [FLUME-780] - Reduce default log levels for chatty libraries
    • [FLUME-785] - Write javadoc for builtin channels
    • [FLUME-786] - Write javadoc for builtin sources
    • [FLUME-787] - Write javadoc for builtin sinks
    • [FLUME-801] - Write NG getting started guide
    • [FLUME-802] - Complete PropertyFileConfigurationProvider implementation