9.6 Platform Release Announcement

We're pleased to announce the next generation of the HPCC Systems® Platform. This exciting new release, version 9.6.0 takes everything you loved about the platform and elevates it to a new level.

Highlights:

• Enhanced Functionality for the Cloud: The primary focus of development is Cloud support. We have made 9.6 more robust for Cloud deployments. This includes:

  • Support for Auxiliary Queues for Thor clusters in Helm charts (HPCC-31248)

  • Support for a plane parameter in some Standard Library methods (HPCC-31212  & HPCC-31213)

  • A Helm chart for a managed minimal Grafana Loki Stack instance for component log processing. (Readme.md)

• Improved Performance:  There are numerous “under the covers” improvements to increase performance.

• Tighter Security: Many improvements made in the area of security.

• Enhanced User Experience: Improvements to the ECL Watch interface designed to improve productivity and provide a more intuitive workflow.

• Open Telemetry Support: We have integrated Open Telemetry’s SDK and tools into our codebase and created a framework (JTrace) for instrumenting HPCC components. We’ve implemented initial instrumentation of some components and added ECL support for tracing/spans. (Readme.md)

• Other enhancements: Manifest/resource files can now be included by reference from a JFrog repository. (HPCC-28950).

Whether you're a seasoned user or just starting out, version 9.6.0 empowers you to achieve more than ever before.

See the Comprehensive list of changes here: https://hpccsystems.com/download/release-notes/