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 7.2.1.0

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