What’s New

Important new features and improvements are as follows.

Note

A link in blue text next to a description in these Release Notes indicates the launch state, availability, and default state of the item (for example, Beta). The link provides more information. Unless otherwise stated, features are generally available, available as self-service (without intervention by Qubole support), and enabled by default.

Cluster Management

Data Analytics

Hadoop

Hive

Notebooks and Dashboards

Presto

Spark

• QDS now supports instance types in the E*as_V4 family.
• QDS has enabled accelerated networking for supported Azure instance types by default.
• Bug fixes.

• ADLS Gen 2 file systems and files are now visible from the Explore page.
• Bug fixes.

• Enhancements and bug fixes.

• Multi-instance HiveServer2 enhancements in this version. Via Support | Cluster Restart Required
• Other enhancements and bug fixes.

• QDS launches a new version of the JupyterLab interface with the following enhancements:

  • Jupyter notebooks integrated with Version Control Systems: GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
  • You can schedule Jupyter notebooks from the Scheduler page of the QDS UI.
  • Account level and object level Access Control.

  Beta, Via Support.

• Enhancements in Zeppelin 0.8.0.

• Zeppelin notebooks integrated with Bitbucket.

• Other enhancements and bug fixes.

• Presto 317 (Beta) is available and implements new features. Beta | Cluster Restart Required
• JOIN reordering and JOIN type determination based on table size works with partitioned tables.
• Presto Version 0.193 is deprecated.
• Proactive removal of unhealthy cluster nodes. Disabled | Cluster Restart Required.
• Cluster buffer capacity management. Disabled | Cluster Restart Required
• Other enhancements and bug fixes.

• Dynamic Filtering improvements in Spark 2.4.3 and later versions.
• Other enhancements and bug fixes.