Atlas community,
Over past months the dev community has been busy in enhancing Apache Atlas with new features, improvements and fixes. Here are few features/enhancements since last major release, Apache Atlas 2.0: - added quick-search feature, to provide a simpler search experience with type-ahead suggestions - introduced Namespaces feature, which allows grouping of attributes to be applied to multiple entity-types - introduced labels on entity instances, and search for entities using the label - enhancement to support entity instance specific custom attributes - enhanced search to find entities by more than one classification - introduced shell/incomplete entities to handle notifications referencing entities that don’t (yet) exist in Atlas - added REST APIs to purge deleted entities - performance improvements in lineage retrieval and tag-propagation - updated Atlas server to process notifications from multiple Kafka topics - updated Hive hook to track process executions, via hive_process_execution entities - updated Hive hook to capture DDL operations, via hive_db_ddl and hive_table_ddl entities - added models for Spark; introduced new models for AWS S3 - updated versions of dependent libraries/components: JanusGraph, Jackson parser, Spring Framework, - updated authorization model to cover new features/APIs, like add/remove labels, purge entities, update namespace attributes With significant improvements in place, it is time for the next maintenance release of Apache Atlas! I propose to release Apache Atlas 2.1 by early next month. Please review and send your comments. Regards, Madhan
