From 6f114d6fcc3df7a9ad8212efbf4c85367fb13156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Wendell Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:16:42 +0000 Subject: Adding MapR artifact links for v1.0.2. --- site/news/index.html | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'site/news/index.html') diff --git a/site/news/index.html b/site/news/index.html index 5fe8d8515..26bee6c04 100644 --- a/site/news/index.html +++ b/site/news/index.html @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Contributions to this release came from 28 developers.

Spark 1.0.1 released

July 11, 2014
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We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 1.0.1! This release includes contributions from 70 developers. Spark 1.0.0 includes fixes across several areas of Spark, including the core API, PySpark, and MLlib. It also includes new features in Spark’s (alpha) SQL library, including support for JSON data and performance and stability fixes.

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We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 1.0.1! This release includes contributions from 70 developers. Spark 1.0.0 includes fixes across several areas of Spark, including the core API, PySpark, and MLlib. It also includes new features in Spark’s (alpha) SQL library, including support for JSON data and performance and stability fixes.

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Spark 1.0.0 released

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We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 1.0.0! Spark 1.0.0 is the first in the 1.X line of releases, providing API stability for Spark’s core interfaces. It is Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 117 developers. -This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new SQL package (Spark SQL) that lets users integrate SQL queries into existing Spark workflows. MLlib, Spark’s machine learning library, is expanded with sparse vector support and several new algorithms. The GraphX and Streaming libraries also introduce new features and optimizations. Spark’s core engine adds support for secured YARN clusters, a unified tool for submitting Spark applications, and several performance and stability improvements.

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We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 1.0.0! Spark 1.0.0 is the first in the 1.X line of releases, providing API stability for Spark’s core interfaces. It is Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 117 developers. +This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new SQL package (Spark SQL) that lets users integrate SQL queries into existing Spark workflows. MLlib, Spark’s machine learning library, is expanded with sparse vector support and several new algorithms. The GraphX and Streaming libraries also introduce new features and optimizations. Spark’s core engine adds support for secured YARN clusters, a unified tool for submitting Spark applications, and several performance and stability improvements.

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Submissions and registration open for Spark Summit 2014

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After last year’s successful first Spark Summit, registrations +

After last year’s successful first Spark Summit, registrations and talk submissions are now open for Spark Summit 2014. This will be a 3-day event in San Francisco organized by multiple companies in the Spark community. The event will run June 30th to July 2nd in San Francisco, CA.

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Spark becomes top-level Apache project

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The Apache Software Foundation announced today that Spark has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project, signifying that the project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles. This is a major step for the community and we are very proud to share this news with users as we complete Spark’s move to Apache. Read more about Spark’s growth during the past year and from contributors and users in the ASF’s press release.

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The Apache Software Foundation announced today that Spark has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project, signifying that the project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles. This is a major step for the community and we are very proud to share this news with users as we complete Spark’s move to Apache. Read more about Spark’s growth during the past year and from contributors and users in the ASF’s press release.

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We are happy to announce the availability of -Spark 0.9.0! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. -This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine, +Spark 0.9.0! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. +This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine, including external aggregations, a simplified H/A mode for long lived applications, and hardened YARN support.

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Spark 0.8.1 released

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We’ve just posted Spark Release 0.8.1, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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We’ve just posted Spark Release 0.8.1, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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Spark 0.8.0 released

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We’re proud to announce the release of Apache Spark 0.8.0. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.

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We’re proud to announce the release of Apache Spark 0.8.0. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.

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Spark user survey and "Powered By" page

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As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you’d like us to work on next. We’ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey – we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, fill in the survey here. Your time is greatly appreciated.

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As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you’d like us to work on next. We’ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey – we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, fill in the survey here. Your time is greatly appreciated.

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Registration open for AMP Camp training camp in Berkeley

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Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year’s workshop was sold out.

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Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year’s workshop was sold out.

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Spark 0.7.3 released

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We’ve just posted Spark Release 0.7.3, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a spark-shell session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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We’ve just posted Spark Release 0.7.3, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a spark-shell session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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Spark 0.7.2 released

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We’re happy to announce the release of Spark 0.7.2, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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We’re happy to announce the release of Spark 0.7.2, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.

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Strata exercises now available online

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At this year’s Strata conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now available online, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find slides from the Strata tutorials online, as well as videos from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.

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At this year’s Strata conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now available online, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find slides from the Strata tutorials online, as well as videos from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.

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Spark 0.7.0 released

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We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark and an alpha of Spark Streaming. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release – 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the release notes to read more about the new features, or download the release today.

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We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark and an alpha of Spark Streaming. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release – 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the release notes to read more about the new features, or download the release today.

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Spark/Shark Tutorial for Amazon EMR

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This weekend, Amazon posted an article and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the Amazon article for details. We’re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.

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This weekend, Amazon posted an article and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the Amazon article for details. We’re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.

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Video up from first Spark development meetup

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On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an introduction to Spark internals. Thanks to one of the attendees, there’s now a video of the meetup on YouTube. We’ve also posted the slides. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.

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On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an introduction to Spark internals. Thanks to one of the attendees, there’s now a video of the meetup on YouTube. We’ve also posted the slides. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.

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Spark in the news

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Recently, we’ve seen quite a bit of coverage of Spark in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.

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Recently, we’ve seen quite a bit of coverage of Spark in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.

  • Curt Monash, editor of the popular DBMS2 blog, wrote a great introduction to Spark and Shark, as well as a more detailed technical overview.
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  • DataInformed interviewed two Spark users and wrote about their applications in anomaly detection, predictive analytics and data mining.
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In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the O’Reilly Strata conference in February. They include a three-hour introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS Tuesday morning, and a three-hour hands-on exercise session.

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In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the O’Reilly Strata conference in February. They include a three-hour introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS Tuesday morning, and a three-hour hands-on exercise session.

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Spark 0.6.1 and 0.5.2 out

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Today we’ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: 0.6.1 and 0.5.2. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend 0.6.1.

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Today we’ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: 0.6.1 and 0.5.2. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend 0.6.1.

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We've started hosting a Bay Area Spark User Meetup

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We’ve started hosting a regular Bay Area Spark User Meetup. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.

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We’ve started hosting a regular Bay Area Spark User Meetup. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.

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