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What's new in Apache Atlas 2.1?

Features

• Quick Search: provides a simpler search experience with type-ahead suggestions
• Business Metadata: enables augmenting entity-types with additional attributes, search entities using these attributes
• Labels: ability to add/remove labels on entities, and search entities using labels
• Custom Attributes: ability to add entity instance specific custom attributes i.e. attributes not defined in entity-def or business metadata
• Entity Purge: added REST APIs to purge deleted entities

Enhancements

• Search: ability to find entities by more than one classification
• Performance: improvements in lineage retrieval and classification-propagation
• Notification: ability to process notificaitons from multiple Kafka topics
• Hive Hook: tracks process-executions via hive_process_execution entities
• Hive Hook: catures DDL operations via hive_db_ddl and hive_table_ddl entities
• Notification: introduced shell entities to record references to non-existing entities in notifications
• Spark: added model to capture Spark entities, processes and relationships
• AWS S3: introduced updated model to capture AWS S3 entities and relationships
• ADLS-Gen2: introduced model to capture Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 entities and relationships
• Dependencies: JanusGraph 0.5.1, Tinkerpop 3.4.6, Spring Framework 4.3.20
• Authorization: updated to cover new features, like: business metadata, labels, purge
• UI: multiple UI improvements, including a beta UI
• List of JIRAs resolved in Apache Atlas 2.1.0