Release Notes for Storm 1.2.2

JIRA issues addressed in the 1.2.2 release of Storm. Documentation for this release is available at the Apache Storm project site.

New Feature

[STORM-2896] - Support automatic migration of offsets from storm-kafka to storm-kafka-client KafkaSpout
[STORM-2997] - Add logviewer ssl module in SECURITY.md
[STORM-3006] - Distributed RPC documentation needs an update
[STORM-3011] - Use default bin path in flight.bash if $JAVA_HOME is undefined
[STORM-3022] - Decouple storm-hive UTs with Hive
[STORM-3039] - Ports of killed topologies remain in TIME_WAIT state preventing to start new topology
[STORM-3069] - Allow users to specify maven local repository directory for storm submit tool

[STORM-2911] - SpoutConfig is serializable but does not declare a serialVersionUID field
[STORM-2967] - Upgrade jackson to latest version 2.9.4
[STORM-2968] - Exclude a few unwanted jars from storm-autocreds
[STORM-2978] - The fix for STORM-2706 is broken, and adds a transitive dependency on Zookeeper 3.5.3-beta for projects that depend on e.g. storm-kafka
[STORM-2979] - WorkerHooks EOFException during run_worker_shutdown_hooks
[STORM-2981] - Upgrade Curator to lastest patch version
[STORM-2985] - Add jackson-annotations to dependency management
[STORM-2988] - "Error on initialization of server mk-worker" when using org.apache.storm.metrics2.reporters.JmxStormReporter on worker
[STORM-2989] - LogCleaner should preserve current worker.log.metrics
[STORM-2993] - Storm HDFS bolt throws ClosedChannelException when Time rotation policy is used
[STORM-2994] - KafkaSpout consumes messages but doesn't commit offsets
[STORM-3043] - NullPointerException thrown in SimpleRecordTranslator.apply()
[STORM-3052] - Let blobs un archive
[STORM-3059] - KafkaSpout throws NPE when hitting a null tuple if the processing guarantee is not AT_LEAST_ONCE

[STORM-2960] - Better to stress importance of setting up proper OS account for Storm processes
[STORM-3060] - Configuration mapping between storm-kafka & storm-kafka-client