Apache Helix Team is pleased to announce the 13th release(0.8.0) of the Apache Helix project. Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework that makes it easy to build partitioned, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems.
What's New in Helix 0.8.0 Back-Compatibility - 0.8.0 release is backward-compatible with 0.6.x releases. Helix REST 2.0 - All admin operations are exposed via restful API - Support all task framework API - Helix Rest 2.0 uses standard HTTP methods if possible, instead of customized command as in HelixAdminWeb - Access log can be enabled for both read and write access New Helix UI (helix-front) which allows you to: - View detailed cluster information - View resources / instances in a Helix cluster - View partition placement and health status in a resource - Create new Helix clusters - Enable / Disable a cluster / resource / instance - Add an instance into a Helix cluster New Full-auto rebalancer featured with: - CRUSH-based rack-aware partition placement algorithm - Delayed rebalance which minimizes re-shuffle of the resident partitions on an instance during short-period outage, while still maintai ning minimal active replicas for application's availability need - Throttled partition movements that allows maximum number of pending state transitions to be set at cluster, resource or instance level - New P2P (Participant-to-participant) state-transition message to allow much faster mastership handoff Helix Cluster Maintenance Mode - Application can put a cluster into maintenance mode. When a cluster in maintenance mode, no new partitions will be bootstrapped, however, existing partitions will still be maintained Performance Improvement - Task framework rebalance pipeline was separated from resource management pipeline in the controller - Reads and writes to ZK are batched during controller's rebalance pipeline to decrease the latency - Optimized the rebalance pipeline with cached data to avoid redundant calculation - New P2P (Participant-to-participant) state-transition message to allow much faster mastership handoff - New target external view to allow spectators to have a speculative <https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=speculative&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYm4XKnIXZAhVGy2MKHTeDCSkQkeECCCYoAA> view of ongoing rebalancing Monitor Improvement - A set of new MBeans to monitor traffic and latency between controller/ participant and Zookeeper - More MBeans to monitor performance of controller's rebalance pipeline - More MBeans to monitor running and queued workflows and jobs The full release note is available here: https://helix.apache.org /0.8.0-docs/releasenotes/release-0.8.0.html You can declare a maven dependency to use it: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.helix</groupId> <artifactId>helix-core</artifactId> <version>0.8.0</version> </dependency> Or download the release sources:http://helix.apache.or g/0.8.0-docs/download.cgi Additional info Website: http://helix.apache.org/ Helix mailing lists: http://helix.apache.org/mail-lists.html We hope you will enjoy using the latest release of Apache Helix! Cheers, Apache Helix Team
