Release notes version 7.2.1.x

Learn about the new features and changes in Teracloud® Streams Version 7.2.1.

Teracloud® Streams Version 7.2.1 introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, changes in web services backend, enhances the data exchange service, and continues security and dependency updates.

Version 7.2.1.1

This section lists the differences between Teracloud® Streams Version 7.2.1.0 and Version 7.2.1.1.

Fixes

Core product

  • Fixed empty Console application page for users with proper permissions.
  • Fixed SPL compiler to handle @endpoint annotation on an operator invocation with multiple input ports.
  • Fixed incorrect region handling for COS application repository configurations.
  • Fixed incompatible library causing Jetty server start up failures.

Fixed security vulnerabilities

The following security vulnerabilities have been fixed in this release:

Dependencies

Third-party libraries have been updated for currency and security reasons. The following items detail primary dependencies changes.

Core product

  • Upgraded AWS Java SDK to 2.45.1
  • Upgraded bnd to 7.3.0
  • Upgraded Commons Codec to 1.22.0
  • Upgraded Commons IO to 2.22.0
  • Upgraded Corba to 5.0.2
  • Upgraded Gson to 2.14.0
  • Upgraded Guava to 33.6.0
  • Upgraded Jackson libraries to 2.21.4
  • Upgraded JAXB libraries to 4.0.9
  • Upgraded Jetty libraries to 12.1.10
  • Upgraded Jline to 3.30.13
  • Upgraded Log4j2 to 2.26.0
  • Upgraded Metrics libraries to 4.2.39
  • Upgraded Mimepull to 1.11.0
  • Upgraded Apache Mina to 2.2.7
  • Upgraded OSGi to 3.24.200
  • Upgraded SLF4J to 2.0.18
  • Upgraded Swagger Annotations to 2.2.49
  • Upgraded SwaggerEditor to 5.4.1
  • Upgraded Swagger UI to 5.32.6
  • Upgraded XLIFF to 78.3

Toolkits

  • Avro: Upgraded avro to 1.12.1.
  • Hbase: Upgraded hbase libraries to 2.6.5-hadoop3.
  • HDFS, ObjectStorage: Upgraded hadoop libraries to 3.5.0.
  • RabbitMQ: Updgraded amqp-client to 5.30.0.

Version 7.2.1.0

This section lists new features, enhancements, fixes, and dependency updates introduced in Teracloud® Streams Version 7.2.1.0.

New features and important changes

Core product

  • Support for RHEL 10.0 or later has been added.
  • Web service backend has changed from IBM WebSphere Liberty to Eclipse Jetty.
    • Upgrades from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 must follow the standard upgrade procedure by stopping and restarting domains. Rolling upgrade is not supported.
  • Support for WebSockets in the Data Exchange service has been added.
  • spl-make-doc has changed output format from xhtml to html5.

Toolkits

  • New regex toolkit – provides operators to run regular expressions against incoming tuples using two supported engines and pre-compiled or dynamic expressions.
  • Inetserver toolkit has been reworked:
    • The toolkit now uses Jetty provided with the Streams install rather than packaging its own.
    • TupleView and XMLView operators have been deprecated. Use the spl.endpoint.EndpointSink operator instead.

Fixes

Core product

  • Fixed job submission and log viewing issues in Streams Console.
  • Fixed SPLDOC issue that caused non-public artifacts to be visible.
  • Fixed an issue where start PE commands would sometimes be dropped.
  • Addressed uninitialized issue in PE transport.
  • Fixed issue where domain services could not be moved when domain controller runs as a system service.

Dependencies

Third-party libraries have been updated for currency and security reasons. The following items detail primary dependencies changes.

Core product

  • Removed IBM WebSphere Liberty
  • Added Jetty Server 12.1.7
  • Added JAX-RS RI 3.1.11
  • Upgraded AWS Java SDK from v1 to v2
  • Upgraded Apache Zookeeper to 3.8.6
  • Upgraded DITA Open Toolkit from 1.x to 4.4

Toolkits

  • DPS: upgraded redis-plus-plus to 1.3.15
  • Kafka, MessageHub: upgraded kafka-client to 3.9.2
  • Hbase, HDFS: upgraded hadoop to 3.4.3
  • ObjectStorage: upgraded ibm-cos-java-sdk-bundle to 2.15.0
  • RabbitMQ: upgraded amqp-client to 5.29.0