We have some significant improvements and features added after 2.5 release, mainly :
- Hive 2 support and move Hive dependency to Apache Hive - Lens Regression module added - Work on Lens Scheduler is 70% complete. - Limit number of open sessions per user on session service - Enable streaming results for queries - cube-segmentation specification added - Python client support - Exponential back off for hive queries - Client result set iterable api added - Lens UI enhancements - Query Priority persisted in Lens DB - Option to kill queries that exceed timeout added - Convert dimension filter to fact filters for performance improvement - Return same handle for repeated query from same user - Post select option added to DriverQueryHook - Skip partition registration for very old and future dates for a fact tables - Weighted Driver selector added. - Cube keyword made optional in queries - Session close will not result in queued query failures and bug fixes. I'm volunteering to manage the release. Calling out for a release preparation for 2.6 here. *Unassigned open items on 2.6 are ( A total of 13 issues)* https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.6%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY Contributors are welcome to provide fix for those issues. *All the open issues (A total of 30 issues including above mentioned 13 unassigned issues)* https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.6 *Issues yet to verify (A total of 107 issues)* https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.6%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved If any of you feel your changes should go into 2.6 and the jira is not marked with fix version, please do so. Putting down the plan for 2.6 release: - Will merge master into release branch after two weeks from now. We can resolve the open issues until then. (18/July/2016) - We will spend one-two weeks to fix blockers on the release branch if any and verify release candidate and roll release candidates until a release vote passes(29/July/2016) - Will roll release candidate on 3/Aug/2016 Let me know your concerns/comments.
