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Azure HDInsight release notes

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This article provides information about the most recent Azure HDInsight release updates. For information on earlier releases, see HDInsight Release Notes Archive.

Summary

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Release Information

Release date: Jun 19, 2024

This release note applies to

HDInsight 5.1 version.

HDInsight 5.0 version.

HDInsight 4.0 version.

HDInsight release will be available to all regions over several days. This release note is applicable for image number 2406180258. How to check the image number?

HDInsight uses safe deployment practices, which involve gradual region deployment. It might take up to 10 business days for a new release or a new version to be available in all regions.

OS versions

  • HDInsight 5.1: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Linux Kernel 5.4
  • HDInsight 5.0: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Linux Kernel 5.4
  • HDInsight 4.0: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Linux Kernel 5.4

Note

Ubuntu 18.04 is supported under Extended Security Maintenance(ESM) by the Azure Linux team for Azure HDInsight July 2023, release onwards.

For workload specific versions, see HDInsight 5.x component versions.

Fixed issues

  • Security enhancements

    • Improvements on using Tags for clusters in line with the SFI requirements.
    • Improvements in probes scripts as per the SFI requirements.

  • Improvements in the HDInsight Log Analytics with System Managed Identity support for HDInsight Resource Provider.

  • Addition of new activity to upgrade the mdsd agent version for old image (created before 2024).

  • Enabling MISE in gateway as part of the continued improvements for MSAL Migration.

  • Incorporate Spark Thrift Server Httpheader hiveConf to the Jetty HTTP ConnectionFactory.

  • Revert RANGER-3753 and RANGER-3593.

    The setOwnerUser implementation given in Ranger 2.3.0 release has a critical regression issue when being used by Hive. In Ranger 2.3.0, when HiveServer2 tries to evaluate the policies, Ranger Client tries to get the owner of the hive table by calling the Metastore in the setOwnerUser function which essentially makes call to storage to check access for that table. This issue causes the queries to run slow when Hive runs on 2.3.0 Ranger.

Coming soon

  • Basic and Standard A-series VMs Retirement.
    • On August 31, 2024, we'll retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs. Before that date, you need to migrate your workloads to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs).
    • To avoid service disruptions, migrate your workloads from Basic and Standard A-series VMs to Av2-series VMs before August 31, 2024.
  • Retirement Notifications for HDInsight 4.0 and HDInsight 5.0.

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Note

We advise customers to use to latest versions of HDInsight Images as they bring in the best of open source updates, Azure updates and security fixes. For more information, see Best practices.

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