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Live on May 2, 2015

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Enhancements

• Message of the Day: Send a message to users when they log into SnapLogic.
• Standardized behavior for copy/move/import of pipelines and projects across Designer and Manager. The process for these actions will be the same in both applications.
• Enhanced pipeline execution statistics. When you execute a pipeline, the Pipeline Execution Statistics dialog now displays a Duration bar chart that provides an overview of where the pipeline is spending its time during document processing.
• Security enhancement: Standard encryption implemented for all users. All passwords will now be encrypted.
• Triggered tasks now support semantic URLs, providing another way to pass parameters.
• Ultra Pipelines
  • Multiple FeedMasters are now supported to prevent a single point-of-failure that could exist with only one.
  • Visibility of Ultra Pipeline in the Dashboard. On the Dashboard Pipeline wall, Ultra Pipeline Tasks are now indicated with the    icon.
• SnapReduce
  • SnapReduce pipelines now support the following Snaps: Router, Copy
  • Expression Language support was added for SnapReduce.

• Expressions and the Expression Language

  • JSON.parse and JSON.stringify were added to the Expression Language.
  • You can now filter the expressions displayed in the drop-down list by typing in the field. See Expression Language Usage for more information.
• Public API for monitoring pipelines added. These APIs let you query information about recently run pipelines, request more information about a specific pipeline runtime ID or a specific organization.

Beta Feature

• Lifecycle Management
  • Project promotions are now atomic. If any item fails during a promotion, the project is not promoted.Snaps

New Snaps

• Splunk Saved Search
• Splunk Writer

For information on Snap updates, see Snap Updates, 2015.

Migration Impacts

• Any FeedMasters which are running will be automatically updated to the new version. If a FeedMaster is not running, the next time it is started, it will fail to initialize itself with the SnapLogic cloud and the auto update will fail. The workaround for this is to comment out the "server_type = feed_master" entry in global.properties and restart the JCC. This will enable the node to update itself. The server_type can then be changed back to feed_master and the JCC restarted. This workaround is required for the current release only; it would not be required for subsequent releases. 

• Ultra tasks will be automatically disabled if the pipeline fails to start or fails to run for two minutes after N attempts.  This is to prevent faulty pipelines from overworking the system.  The Max Failures property of the Ultra Task can be used to control the number of attempts before being auto-
  disabled or the property can be set to zero if the task should never be auto-disabled.

• For locally triggered tasks (those using the On-Premises Task URL), the HTTPS port (8081) on the JCCs is used to do the data transfer between nodes. This means that the Groundplex nodes no longer need to be configured so that they listen on 0.0.0.0 as described in the 'Snaplex Network Binding' section at http://doc.Snaplogic.com/configuration-options

  (By default, the JCCs listen only on localhost for their HTTP port, but they listen on all network interfaces for the HTTPS port.)

  Users should make sure the nodes can talk to each other on this port.

Known Issues

• The status of completed child pipelines is not displayed in the running pipelines section when the parent pipeline has subsequent child pipelines.

• In Dashboard, the Executing Pipelines section will only show those pipelines currently executing, and it if has children, which children are currently executing. If a parent pipeline has children which have completed, they will only appear in the Pipeline Execution History when the parent has completed, along with the parent if Group Pipelines is selected. If Group Pipelines is not selected, that list will show all completed pipelines, including any completed children of still executing parents.

• SnapReduce

  • MapReduce job fails when using a large JSON file for input data

  • Union Snaps require same field names in the same order

  • Potential issue with joining multiple or large input files

  • Pipeline generates an empty output file if the input file has fields with dots and brackets

  • MapReduce job fails without proper error if there is an empty value in input data

• Lifecycle Management

• Promotion of a hundreds of assets can take up to 15 minutes to complete.

• A promoted project will allow any members of a phase to read and execute the assets. As a work around, the org permissions can be removed, but then read and execute permissions for a group must be added to ensure a user can properly access the assets.