If there are important updates to the Azkaban metadata these will be indicated in the important upgrade messages that follow. Refer to the Upgrading Azkaban section of the RED User Guide for more details.

Important Messages when upgrading to 10.7.0.0

Upgrading RED

Version 10.7.0.0

• There are no important messages for upgrading RED to this release, but please consider the cumulative upgrade messages below when upgrading.

Version 10.6.0.0

• This version adds new RED Metadata indexes to improve query performance, these indexes will be applied automatically when missing during upgrades.

Version 10.5.0.0

• There are no important messages for upgrading RED to this release, but please consider the cumulative upgrade messages below when upgrading.

Version 10.4.0.0

• There are no important messages for upgrading RED to this release, but please consider the cumulative upgrade messages below when upgrading.

Version 10.3.0.0

• There are no important messages for upgrading RED to this release, but please consider the cumulative upgrade messages below when upgrading.

Version 10.2.0.0

10.2 has potentially breaking changes for upgraded repositories; therefore, upgrades should be tested thoroughly before upgrading production environments:

• All ODBC, Database, Extensible Source Connection and Scheduler Configuration credentials have moved to the RED Profile, therefore each user of RED should generate their own local profile file (see the user guide for details) to continue using RED.
• For new installs, from RED 10.2.+, you will find the wsl_scheduler_profile_maintenance host script under your Host Script's in your RED metadata repository (see the user guide for details). For upgraded repositories you will need to load this script into RED manually from <RED_Installation_Directory>\Administrator\Scripts\wsl_scheduler_profile_maintenance.ps1
• All Azkaban components require upgrading and the encrypted Scheduler profile records added to redadmin.ws_scheduler_profile (see the user guide for details) in order for jobs to run.
• Post upgrade it is encouraged to remove all credentials from the metadata since these should now reside in the in-memory session level credentials only. Run the following update on the metadata to achieve this: 
  Remove credentials after upgrade

  -- Remove credentials from Database, ODBC and Extensible Source connections
  UPDATE red.ws_dbc_connect
  SET dc_extract_userid='', dc_extract_pwd='', dc_admin_userid='', dc_admin_pwd=''
  WHERE dc_type IN ('D','O','Z');
  
  -- Remove credentials from Scheduler Configuration
  UPDATE red.ws_wrk_external_scheduler
  SET wes_dashboard_userid='', wes_dashboard_pwd='', wes_restapi_userid='', wes_restapi_pwd='';

Version 10.1.0.0

10.1 has potentially breaking changes for upgraded repositories; therefore, upgrades should be tested thoroughly before upgrading production environments. The potential issues after the upgrade are the following:

• Default Routine Template settings might be lost. For object types other than Load and Export these settings have been moved from target connections to the Object Subtypes. During the metadata upgrade process, the first target-enabled connection found is used to populate the new settings under Object Subtypes. If you have multiple target-enabled connections in your repository, the optimal connection may not be used for the settings transfer. Ensure to check the Object Subtypes maintenance wizard after an upgrade to this version and set any missing/incorrect default routine templates as required. Note: this configuration can be exported from test to production once resolved in test.
• [TABLEOWNER] an $OBJECT$ token expansion no longer expands empty schemas to an additional ‘.’ in table names. This means from this release onwards you must specify the actual schema name in target location settings when schema is required on your platform. Ensure to check your target location settings for target connections before upgrading and populate the schema field, if required.

Upgrading Azkaban

Upgrading Azkaban on Windows is handled by the RED Scheduler Installer, however upgrading on Linux is a manual process, please refer to the RED User guide for detailed upgrade instructions.

Version 10.7.0.0

• RED 10.7.0.0 resolves an issue, introduced in 10.5, where the RED Scheduler Plugin was not completely flushing the output stream leading to errors for some python based scripts. Additionally PowerShell scripts on Windows now include a BOM. The Azkaban Web Server and each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to work with this release.

Version 10.6.0.2

• RED 10.6.0.2 added support for Job Success and Failure commands. The Azkaban Web Server and each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to work with this release.

  If you had already implemented Success and Failure commands via customizations to the scheduler publish script using Azkaban conditional flow logic then these publish script changes should be reverted and those jobs republished, otherwise Success and Failure command execution may be duplicated.

   

Version 10.6.0.0

• RED 10.6.0.0 added functionality to enable the new Extensible Authentication fields. The Azkaban Web Server and each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to work with this release. 

Version 10.5.0.0

• RED 10.5.0.0 added functionality to remove interactive scheduler jobs after execution. The Azkaban Web Server, each Azkaban Executor and the scheduler integration script wsl_scheduler_publish will need to be upgraded to take advantage of this feature. 

Version 10.4.0.0

• RED 10.4.0.0 improves logging from metadata connection resilience so that the actual reason given by the driver is logged when reconnecting. Additionally improvements have been made to the RED Job Plugin. The Azkaban Web Server and each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to take advantage of these features. 
• RED 10.4.0.1 Minor improvements have been made to the RED Job Plugin. Each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to take advantage of these optional fixes.
• RED 10.4.0.2 Minor improvements have been made to the RED Job Plugin. Each Azkaban Executor will need to be upgraded to take advantage of these optional fixes.

Version 10.3.0.0

• RED 10.3 improves the metadata connection resilience in both the Azkaban Web Server component and RED Job Plugin. Each of the Azkaban metadata, Azkaban Web Server and Azkaban Executors will need to be upgraded to take advantage of these features.

Version 10.2.0.0 

• In RED 10.2 Advanced Connect is always enabled and therefore there are new azkaban.local.properties fields (and response.xml tags) required that support this feature. Any automated installation scripts will need to take into account these new fields. Each of the Azkaban metadata, Azkaban Web Server and Azkaban Executors will need to be upgraded to work with this release. 

Azkaban Change history

Change history for Azkaban components requiring upgrades (changes are cumulative):

• 10.0.7.0: Resolved an output stream issue with RED Scheduler Plugin and added BOM to Windows PowerShell scripts.
• 10.0.6.2: Added Job Success and Failure command support to the RED Scheduler Plugin.
• 10.6.0.0: Added Extensible Authentication feature affecting the Profile metadata table and script execution. 
• 10.5.0.0: Added functionality to remove interactive scheduler jobs after execution.
• 10.4.0.2: SchedulerUtils.jar has a new method that allows running RED script objects standalone.
• 10.4.0.1: Standalone Batch\Unix\Linux script support. Fixes for resolving references to Dim View objects.
• 10.4.0.0: Connection resilience logging improvements. Bug fixes for RED Job Plugin. Component upgrades.
• 10.3.0.0: Azkaban/RED metadata connection resilience improvements. Component upgrades.
• 10.2.0.0: New required fields for azkaban.local.properties and installer resposne.xml for Advanced Connect. Stand-alone script execution enhancements.
• 10.1.0.1: Log4j components upgraded to log4j2 to resolve logging issues.
• 10.1.0.0: Improvements when canceling running jobs. Component upgrades.
• 10.0.1.0: Added procedure support and long host names fix.
• 10.0.0.0: First release.

Upgrading Scheduler Integration Scripts

The default scheduler integration scripts are often improved, occasionally these improvements are required to work with a new release. Please refer to the change history below and refer to the RED user guide for detailed upgrade instructions.

Integration Scripts Change History

Change history for integration scripts requiring manual upgrade (changes are cumulative), upgrades are optional unless marked as required:

• 10.7.0.0:
  • No changes
• 10.6.0.0:
  • wsl_scheduler_profile_maintenance - Required upgrade - Added support for new Extensible Authentication fields.
• 10.5.0.0: 
  • wsl_scheduler_publish - Added functionality to remove interactive scheduler jobs after execution.
• 10.4.0.0: 
  • wsl_scheduler_publish - Fallback to script run directory when WSL_WORKDIR is not set. Cleanse API URL by removing trailing '/' before using it.
  • wsl_scheduler_lookup - Cleanse API URL by removing trailing '/' before using it.
  • wsl_scheduler_profile_maintenance - Added special row for WSL_SCHEDULER_API entry, improved connection ordering in UI.
• 10.3.0.0: No changes
• 10.2.0.0:
  • wsl_scheduler_publish - Required upgrade - Advanced Connect feature added.
  • wsl_scheduler_lookup - Added version header and removed unused parameters.
  • wsl_scheduler_dashboard - Added version header and removed unused parameters. 
  • wsl_scheduler_profile_maintenance - New script for maintaining the scheduler profile.
• 10.0.0.3:  wsl_scheduler_publish - Support for republishing when existing job not found. Improved logging.
• 10.0.0.2:  wsl_scheduler_publish - Added support for disabled tasks.
• 10.0.0.0: First release.