Apache Storm 1.2.2 Released

The Apache Storm community is pleased to announce that version 1.2.2 has been released and is available from the downloads page.

This is a maintenance release that includes a number of important bug fixes that improve Apache Storm's performance, stability and fault tolerance. We encourage users of previous versions to upgrade to this latest release.

Thanks

Special thanks are due to all those who have contributed to Apache Storm -- whether through direct code contributions, documentation, bug reports, or helping other users on the mailing lists. Your efforts are much appreciated.

Changes in this Release

New Feature

Improvement

  • [STORM-2896] - Support automatic migration of offsets from storm-kafka to storm-kafka-client KafkaSpout
  • [STORM-2997] - Add logviewer ssl module in SECURITY.md
  • [STORM-3006] - Distributed RPC documentation needs an update
  • [STORM-3011] - Use default bin path in flight.bash if $JAVA_HOME is undefined
  • [STORM-3022] - Decouple storm-hive UTs with Hive
  • [STORM-3039] - Ports of killed topologies remain in TIME_WAIT state preventing to start new topology
  • [STORM-3069] - Allow users to specify maven local repository directory for storm submit tool

Bug

  • [STORM-2911] - SpoutConfig is serializable but does not declare a serialVersionUID field
  • [STORM-2967] - Upgrade jackson to latest version 2.9.4
  • [STORM-2968] - Exclude a few unwanted jars from storm-autocreds
  • [STORM-2978] - The fix for STORM-2706 is broken, and adds a transitive dependency on Zookeeper 3.5.3-beta for projects that depend on e.g. storm-kafka
  • [STORM-2979] - WorkerHooks EOFException during run_worker_shutdown_hooks
  • [STORM-2981] - Upgrade Curator to lastest patch version
  • [STORM-2985] - Add jackson-annotations to dependency management
  • [STORM-2988] - "Error on initialization of server mk-worker" when using org.apache.storm.metrics2.reporters.JmxStormReporter on worker
  • [STORM-2989] - LogCleaner should preserve current worker.log.metrics
  • [STORM-2993] - Storm HDFS bolt throws ClosedChannelException when Time rotation policy is used
  • [STORM-2994] - KafkaSpout consumes messages but doesn't commit offsets
  • [STORM-3043] - NullPointerException thrown in SimpleRecordTranslator.apply()
  • [STORM-3052] - Let blobs un archive
  • [STORM-3059] - KafkaSpout throws NPE when hitting a null tuple if the processing guarantee is not AT_LEAST_ONCE

Documentation

  • [STORM-2960] - Better to stress importance of setting up proper OS account for Storm processes
  • [STORM-3060] - Configuration mapping between storm-kafka & storm-kafka-client

Task

  • [STORM-2952] - Deprecate storm-kafka in 1.x
  • [STORM-3005] - [DRPC] LinearDRPCTopologyBuilder shouldn't be deprecated