Release Notes for Sqoop 1.3.0: June, 2011
This document lists all Sqoop issues included in version 1.3.0
not present in the previous release, 1.2.0.
Bug fixes:
- [SQOOP-225] - Checkstyle module for detecting trailing white spaces.
- [SQOOP-91] - Empty "columns" clause leads to null pointer exception
- [SQOOP-224] - Table name issue with PostgreSQL.
- [SQOOP-212] - Hive import for existing table does not work.
- [SQOOP-67] - NPE when column name list contains spaces - e.g.
- [SQOOP-219] - Duplicate columns arguments results in code generation compilation error
- SQOOP-48: Import bug when splitting over unsigned bigint column
- [SQOOP-206] - HBase import to use plugin InputFormat.
- [SQOOP-202] - sqoop-metastore should be able to handle missing pid files
- [SQOOP-204] - Allow connector specific bounds query.
- [SQOOP-192] - Limit HSQLDB export to single inserts.
- [SQOOP-183] - File rename fails for generated files.
- [SQOOP-166] - Postgresql identifiers should be quoted
- [SQOOP-168] - NPE due to null binary columns.
- [SQOOP-153] - Enable tests against real cluster.
- [SQOOP-152] - Support for test against cluster.
- [SQOOP-140] - Control max.
- [SQOOP-154] - Fix connection leak in OracleManager.
Improvements:
- [SQOOP-215] - Support for codec aliases.
- [SQOOP-118] - Sqoop should work without HBase where possible.
- [SQOOP-129] - Newlines in RDBMS fields break Hive
- [SQOOP-191] - Supplying programmatic configuration.
- [SQOOP-187] - Allow skipping end-of-record delimiter.
- [SQOOP-185] - Tool plugins should not reuse names.
- [SQOOP-180] - Classpath construction in script.
- [SQOOP-181] - Improve formatting of help messages.
- [SQOOP-165] - Improved log message for unknown types.
- [SQOOP-162] - Changes for vendor-specific subclasses.
New features:
- [SQOOP-207] - Support import as Avro Data Files.
- [SQOOP-195] - Documentation tip on specifying MR job name.
- [SQOOP-158] - Additional methods for generated classes.
- [SQOOP-201] - Support for arbitrary compression codec.
- [SQOOP-205] - Add getJob() to JobBase
- [SQOOP-100] - Sqoop to support populating Hive table partitions.
- [SQOOP-179] - Adding setField() method to SqoopRecord
- [SQOOP-178] - Support for tool plugins.
Tasks:
- Increment version number for release.
- [SQOOP-193] - Update Docs to describe --hive-drop-import-delims argument
- [SQOOP-170] - Capturing causal exception for logging.
- [SQOOP-164] - Allow unit tests to use external dbs.
- [SQOOP-159] - Fixing HBase test failures.
- Increment version number and prev.git.hash after branching for release.