[geowave-dev] GeoWave v0.9.6 Release

[Rich Fecher <rfecher@xxxxxxxxx>]

We are pleased to announce the release of GeoWave v0.9.6!

The core development team has been busy adding a wide variety of new features within the baseline.

Some recent significant developments include:

API Improvements

• REST service endpoints for all GeoWave commands
  
• Swagger definitions for interactive service documentation
  
• New packaging for REST services using Tomcat 8
  

Usability Improvements

• Direct S3 and HDFS ingest support using raw file formats
  
• Streamlined commandline tools for Spark and MapReduce remote job submission
  
• Improved quickstart guides
  

Analytic Improvements

• Jupyter notebook support using python bindings with examples
  
• Zeppelin notebook support with examples
  
• Support for SparkSQL
  
• Commandline tools for K-Means clustering using Spark MLlib
  

Versioning Updates

• Spark 2.2.0 support
  
• HBase 1.3.1 support
  
• Accumulo 1.8.1 support
  
• Incremented supported Cloudera version to CDH 5.12.1
  
• Incremented supported Hortonworks version to HDP 2.6
  
• Incremented supported Amazon EMR version to 5.10.0
  

...and many many more, see the change log for details.