Changelog for KNIME Analytics Platform 3.3

Changes between v3.3.2 and v3.3.3

Release date: July 25, 2017

Enhancement

AP-7300: Change node description for JSON Path

Bug Fixes

AP-6910 - R Snippet Dialog does not open on first click on configure
AP-7169 - Tree predictors fail on NaN values
AP-7171 - REST nodes fail when responses contain incompatible content types
AP-7218 - Spinner of DialogComponentDoubleRange should not exceed boundaries
AP-7224 - Workflow cannot be deleted after running it as a test workflow under Windows
AP-7232 - String Input Quickform sets pattern attribute even if no regex is defined
AP-7251 - Workflow coach view doesn't listen for preference change
AP-7284 - List Box Input treats separator characters differently in node model and JavaScript alidation
AP-7289 - Excel Reader throws NullPointerException on certain files with boolean values
AP-7293 - JSON Path throws NullPointerException when path to a value that is "null" is added
AP-7325 - Label Quickform Execution as legacy
AP-7386 - Cross Joiner dialog freezes if column suffix is blank
AP-7683 - Package conflict between com.google.api and Jackson bundles
AP-7427 - Workflow-relative paths on UNC drives are not resolved correctly any more
AP-7483 - List Files RegEx checks encoded URL instead of file path
AP-7645 - File Reader cannot read negative values in 'Double' column of TAB delimited data
BD-413: (Big Data Extensions): Database connection validation does not work for Simba based Hive drivers such as provided by Cloudera and Hortonworks
BD-409: (Big Data Extensions): Support Spark 1.6 on CDH 5.9 and above
BD-392: (Big Data Extensions): Create Spark Context node freezes when changing custom Spark settings of an existing context
BD-387: (Big Data Extensions): Support tab as delimiter in CSV to Spark node
BD-379: (Big Data Extensions): Spark SQL node does not support HiveContext functions such as window function
BD-376: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Jobserver 0.6.2.1-KNIME becomes unuseable after error during context creation
BD-295: (Big Data Extensions): Support destroying of default Spark context

Changes between v3.3.1 and v3.3.2

Release date: April 07, 2017

Enhancement

AP-6983: REST nodes should gracefully handle illegal JSON with BOM header
AP-6959: Excel Reader: New option "Skip hidden columns"
AP-6947: Upgrade Marvin Extension to 3.1.0.v0506
AP-6862: Fix error message for File Upload quickform when using AP view
AP-6861: File Upload node timeout node description improvement
AP-6809: Text Mining: export tokenizer in Textprocessing plugin
AP-6752: Add system property to prevent reading external entities by XML Reader
AP-6651: (API) Add NodeID#isRoot() method
AP-6214: Database writer with new option to fail on error
AP-7015: Create File Name node should push flowvariable during configure
BD-340: (Big Data Extensions): Detect Simba-based Hive JDBC driver provided by Hortonworks
BD-277: (Big Data Extensions): Add option for Kerberos debugging in Kerberos preferences
BD-251: (Big Data Extensions): Automatic user impersonation for Hive and Impala connections with Simba-based JDBC drivers on KNIME Server

Bug Fixes

AP-7084: XML Writer node doesn't work on server any more
AP-7083: JSON Writer node doesn't work on server any more
AP-7079: List Files doesn't work on server any more
AP-7078: Image Column Writer doesn't work on server any more
AP-7018: Line Reader with invalid default values
AP-6954: Excel Reader (XLS) will not read sheets if there are empty cells with comments
AP-6915: JavaSnippet: Missing support for PNG to String conversion
AP-6865: DeepLearning4J: Image Input broken for deprecated DeepLearning4J Learner Node
AP-6864: New Excel Writer fails on option AutoSize Column
AP-6851: Java Snippet: runtime classloader too permissive -- possibly loading classes from different bundle
AP-7188: Excel Reader sometimes doesn't work properly when run on server
AP-7176: Wrong replace column selected when opening Rule Engine node first time after loading workflow
AP-7105: Text Mining: the bounds of the min max values of the Frequency Filter node are too limiting
AP-7101: Text Mining: Tagger nodes fail when input does not contain document column
AP-7081: Smiles Reader doesn't work on server
AP-7080: Molfile Reader doesn't work on server
AP-7058: Workflow coach doesn't work behind proxies
AP-7046: JavaScript Parallel Coordinates does not fade lines when subscribing to selection events
AP-7041: Text Mining: Markup Filter needs tokenizer selection
AP-7040: Column Filter (PMML) produces NullPointerException
AP-7035: Excel Reader stuck parsing for certain (sparse) files
AP-7033: Text Mining: Default normalization of Spanish tokenizer needs to be switched off
AP-7014: Create file Name node cannot overwrite an existing variable
AP-7012: Java Snippet adds entry to import section if collection of collections column is selected
AP-7010: Data first loaded with SandboxedNodeCreator is inaccessible afterwards
AP-6994: Enrichment Plotter: The discovery rates and enrichment factors are all 0 if the smallest fraction contains less then one row
AP-6956: Database preview panel does not set NodeContext
AP-6937: Workflow Coach: No recommendations shown when empty workflow is opened
AP-6936: Node description of column filter quickform wrongly claims the output table is empty (no rows)
AP-6897: Impossible to pick new file in Amazon S3 File Picker if a file was already selected
AP-6882: Text Mining: Number Filter node not catching all numbers (e.g. decimal numbers with thousand separators)
AP-6875: Excel Writer / Linux: Opening file after writing in native editor may cause KNIME to crash
AP-6871: Text Mining: Strings to Document fails on empty table
AP-6870: (New) Excel Reader node has confusing row IDs
AP-6868: JavaScript Conditional BoxPlot fails if not enough values present
AP-6852: Difficult to select an outport with some connector geometries
AP-6822: Closing KNIME while starting up (reading node repository) may cause KNIME to hang
AP-6812: JavaScript Decision Tree View: Abbreviate long strings
AP-6760: JavaScript Decision Tree View: Fix various sizing problems
AP-6732: Problems with optional parameters of Openbabel node
BD-366: (Big Data Extensions): Connection to Spark Jobserver does not work behind proxy
BD-345: (Big Data Extensions): Hive/Impala loader and Spark reader/writer nodes do not store flow variable button state
BD-344: (Big Data Extensions):
Memory leak in Spark driver caused by Hive/Database to Spark and Spark to Hive/Database nodes
BD-331: (Big Data Extensions): Collaborative filtering does not use lambda parameter
BD-309: (Big Data Extensions): Second output of Spark Partitioning node lacks rows when input data contains duplicate rows
BD-300: (Big Data Extensions): Fix display and logging of Spark errors
BD-297: (Big Data Extensions): Spark jobs don't delete temporarily uploaded files on Spark Jobserver
PE-41: Call Local Workflow node doesn't work on headless servers
PE-40: Call Local Workflow node doesn't work on server any more
PE-37: Templates based on Wrapped Metanode must not include 'dialog configuration'

Changes between v3.3.0 and v3.3.1

Release date: December 21, 2016

Enhancement

AP-6794: Add Aggregation methods for SQL Server
AP-6820: Timeout of the FileUpload node should be configurable

Bug Fixes

AP-6819: Java Snippet is not configurable if configured input column is missing
AP-6805: JavaSnippet: List of deprecated DateAndTimeCell not convertible
AP-6770: Win32 installer broken - tries to access 64bit registry entries
AP-6763: File Reader Configuration dialog with unusable layout on some Windows systems
AP-6762: XLS reports cannot be generated any more
AP-6815: Java Snippet node throws FileNotFound exception when running in test flow with open dialog enabled
AP-6810: Normalize tags for German and Spanish NER models
AP-6799: JavaScript Decision Tree View: Fix Layout Issue
AP-6793: JavaScript Parallel Coordinates view does not open on Windows
AP-6791: Saved StringsToDocuments node cannot be loaded
AP-6761: KNIME SDK: Runtime instance possibly not starting unless "knime.enable.fastload" is set
AP-3317: Java Snippet: better "BinaryObject" support via byte[]

Changes between v3.2 and v3.3

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Release date: December 6, 2016

New nodes

AP-4783: Math Formula (Variable)
AP-3654: String Manipulation (Variable)
AP-5566: Database Table Creator
AP-6265: Azure Blob Storage Connector
AP-6047: Amazon S3 Connector
AP-6056: MSSQL Connector
AP-5990: Create Filename
AP-6120: Text Mining: Tika Language Detection
AP-6080: Text Mining: Tika Parser URL Input (integration with Apache TIKA)
AP-5910: Text Mining: Tika Parser (integration with Apache TIKA)
AP-6510: Text Mining: Lemmatizer
AP-6450: Text Mining: Diacritis Remover node
AP-6435: Text Mining: RSS Feed Reader
AP-6427: Text Mining: Document Vector Adapter
AP-6422: Text Mining: Stanford NE Model Scorer
AP-6421: Text Mining: Stanford Tagger
AP-6046: Text Mining: Document Vector Hashing
AP-6042: Text Mining: Entropy Node
AP-6117: Text Mining: NER Learner node (Standford NLP)
AP-6532: Quickform Slider Input
AP-6298: Range Slider Filter Definition
AP-6734: Filter Apply Row Splitter node
AP-6624: Filter definition apply node
AP-6623: Filter definition merger node
AP-6151: JavaScript Parallel Coordinates View
AP-6090: JavaScript Decision Tree View
AP-6215: DeepLearning4J: DeepLearning4J Feedforward Learner (split up of previous all-in-one learner)
AP-6091: DeepLearning4J: Regression Learner
AP-6295: Extract Missing Value Cause (node that extracts the error message from a missing cell, if present)
BD-231: Big Data Extensions: Spark AVRO file reader/writer nodes
BD-230: Big Data Extensions: Spark JSON file reader/writer nodes
BD-171: Big Data Extensions: Spark Text file reader/writer nodes
BD-167: Big Data Extensions: Spark Parquet file reader/writer nodes
BD-166: Big Data Extensions: Spark ORC file reader/writer nodes
BD-165: Big Data Extensions: Spark CSV file reader/writer nodes
BD-136: Big Data Extensions: Spark to Database
BD-135: Big Data Extensions: Database to Spark node
BD-74: Big Data Extensions: Impala to Spark and Spark to Impala node
BD-245: Big Data Extensions: Spark SQL Query

Enhancement

AP-5984: Upgrade to Eclipse 4.6
AP-6031: Curved connections between nodes in workflow editor
AP-6019: Searching for a column name in the Table View by substring
AP-1198: XLS Reader/Writer nodes to use different data model (scales significantly better for large tables/xls files)
AP-5415: XLS Writer to warn if user writes old 'xls' format (suggests 'xlsx' instead)
AP-4901: XLS Appender should give a warning during configure if the selected file does not exist
AP-4612: XLS Reader Should use strings not integers for column range specification via flow variables.
AP-6169: XLS Reader option to read cached values instead of evaluating formulas
AP-6606: Update Marvin Extension (kindly contributed by ChemAxon/Infocom) to ver3.1.0.v0505
AP-6243: Add support for a HELM cell type
AP-6247: PMML Model Appender: support for regression tree models
AP-6260: Feature Selection loop with variables containing current iteration and column name
AP-5900: SAS Reader: Update parso library to 2.0.2
AP-6736: (API) #configure method in JfcGenericBaseNodeModel to be no longer final -- requested by community
AP-6730: Buttons for different mouse modes on JavaScript Scatter Plot
AP-6713: Rserve receiving buffer size limit should accept 0 as input
AP-6711: Python nodes: "Execute Selection" action to run all selected lines (as opposed to selected text only)
AP-6704: Adjust tokenizer description appearence in Preference Page
AP-6703: Add tokenizer selection in Node Dialog for Strings To Document Node
AP-6701: Add tokenizer selection in Node Dialog for RSS Feed Reader
AP-6664: JSON Path node: allow changing the order of output columns
AP-6642: Default memory assignment to be 2GB for 64bit archs (-Xmx2G)
AP-6622: New port type for filter definitions
AP-6621: Use location flow variables values in reader dialogs
AP-6617: Static textprocessing files should be extracted into separate bundle
AP-6607: Generate useful dates in test data generator
AP-6582: Database Query node is configurable even if input spec is missing
AP-6579: Define flow variables with type and default in Generic JavaScript View dialog
AP-6542: Upgrade Generic JavaScript jQuery version to 3.x
AP-6531: Prepare REST extension for NTLM authentication
AP-6521: Text Mining: Nodes with tokenizer settings in dialog need to validate selected tokenizer
AP-6507: Add option to JS table view to format date/time strings in utc format
AP-6477: Add timeout option to Excel/XLS Reader
AP-6473: Update Selenium to 3.0
AP-6472: Update all PhantomJS binaries to 2.1
AP-6451: (API) New 'FilterHandler' handler on data columns -- needed to enable interactive filtering in JS views/webportal/guided analytics
AP-6446: Add possibility to output flow variable to Generic JavaScript view
AP-6408: XLS Writer/Appender node to automatically determine file ending (less picky when the user is lazy and omits '.xlsx')
AP-6403: Views on Wrapped Metanodes (delegated from contained JS view nodes)
AP-6393: Convert settings from JavaScript Line Plot to service menu
AP-6392: Convert settings from JavaScript Pie Chart to service menu
AP-6391: Convert settings from JavaScript Bar Chart to service menu
AP-6390: Convert settings from JavaScript Parallel Coordinates Plot to service menu
AP-6388: Convert settings from JavaScript Lift Chart to service menu
AP-6387: Convert settings from JavaScript ROC Curve to service menu
AP-6386: Convert settings from JavaScript Conditional Box Plot to service menu
AP-6385: Convert settings from JavaScript Box Plot to service menu
AP-6369: Add fullscreen support to JavaScript scatter plot and paged table
AP-6367: Create option to toggle JavaScript views in fullscreen mode in KNIME service
AP-6366: Convert settings from JavaScript scatter plot to service menu
AP-6365: Create menu in KNIME service JavaScript framework
AP-6360: List Box Quickform needs size option
AP-6355: (API): New dialog component: DialogComponentDuration
AP-6332: File location input fields in dialogs should resize with dialog
AP-6325: Subscribe to selection events in JavaScript scatter plot
AP-6324: Publish selection events for JavaScript scatter plot
AP-6323: Subscribe to filter events in JavaScript scatter plot
AP-6303: Subscribe to filter events in JavaScript paged table
AP-6302: Publish selection events for JavaScript paged table view
AP-6301: Subscribe to selection events in JavaScript paged table
AP-6299: Option for JavaScript paged table to switch visibility by selected rows
AP-6297: Write framework component to be included in each iframe (pub/sub)
AP-6246: JSON Patch node should keep input unchanged if "test" operation fails
AP-6245: Table to JSON node should have option to ignore missing cells
AP-6228: Split KNIME GUI-preference page
AP-6226: Add node connection properties to workflow editor settings dialog (and replace the grid setting dialog by it)
AP-6216: Kaplan-Meier Estimator should generate a view with the Kaplan-Meier Estimator Plot
AP-6439: DeepLearning4J: Upgrade to version 0.6.0
AP-6088: DeepLearning4J: Beautify Learner Node Dialog
AP-6376: DeepLearning4J: Remove massive logging
AP-6375: DeepLearning4J: Split Predictor Nodes
AP-6250: DeepLearning4J: Enhance performance of RowConverters
AP-6337: DeepLearning4J: New metanode for Deep Belief networks
AP-6189: DeepLearning4J: Potential KNIME crash on Windows caused by DLL conflicts
AP-6187: DeepLearning4J Learner: NPE when no layers are added to the network configuration
AP-6186: DeepLearning4J Learner: spec does not contain output layer in unsupervised learning
AP-6197: Wilcoxon Signed-Rank node: Additional statistics
AP-6185: Ability to ensure test workflow version for backwards compatibility testing
AP-6176: Upgrade Generic JavaScript D3 version to 4.x
AP-6134: Missing Values to be more prominently highlighted in table view (red) and should show error cause, if available
AP-6133: Expand Vector Node: use operator internals in streaming implementation
AP-6129: New workspaces with more comprehensive set of example workflows
AP-6119: Text Mining: Document Viewer - switch html interpretation on/off
AP-6118: Text Mining: Document Viewer - show tags (values and types)
AP-6116: Text Mining: Additional Tokenizers
AP-6043: Text Mining: IDF - normalization options
AP-5853: Text Mining: Strings to Document should not require title or author cols
AP-5815: Windows Installer should force uninstallation of previous installed versions
AP-5724: Add option for soft voting in Tree Ensemble and Random Forest predictor
AP-5710: Prediction Fusion Node: Add button "Add classes from column"
AP-5539: Text Mining: Strings 2 Document node should have column selection for publication date in dialog
AP-5514: k-means node to have option "enable hilite translation" to map between 2nd output (cluster center) and input
AP-4744: Unify file access checks in reader nodes
AP-4648: File handling nodes should support 'knime:' URIs (local only)
AP-4258: Writer nodes should add missing file extension in dialog
AP-4119: Add support for type converters in Java Snippet node
AP-3954: Tree Ensemble Learner to have options for stratified & equal size sampling
AP-3876: Writer node dialogs should be closable when location is controlled by flow variable
BD-244: (Big Data Extensions): Common remote (file) connector dialog should test connection (e.g. in HDFS)
BD-237: (Big Data Extensions): Improved Spark job error handling
BD-236: (Big Data Extensions): SSL support for HDFS/webHDFS/httpFS Connector nodes
BD-207: (Big Data Extensions): Create Spark Context node with new setting to hide "Context already exists" warning

Bug Fixes

AP-6705: Document Grabber no longer working with PubMed (PubMed API change)
AP-6611: PMML to RuleSet fails with "division undefined" error
AP-6605: String to Number doesn't support more than 2 billion rows
AP-6587: Security problem with cached db connections on KNIME server with Kerberos authentication
AP-6575: Gradient Boosted Trees Predictor fails in streaming mode
AP-6563: LibSVM predictor shuffles probabilities when table contains unseen classes
AP-6534: PNG images are blurred when shown in table view
AP-6533: Tooltip in "Memory" tab is not showing actual cell count threshold (problem reported in forum)
AP-6525: R Integration: Too many R Process Cleanup Threads during shutdown
AP-6523: R Integration: Rserve Processes are not terminated
AP-6492: CSV File History: Invalid entries may prevent table view from showing (thanks to menu entry 'export csv')
AP-6430: SQLServer VARBINARY type should not be read as string
AP-6419: Python Nodes: Error when using unicode characters in flow variables
AP-6407: REST nodes set wrong Content-Encoding
AP-6380: Python integration: "Execute failed: Column XXX has an unsupported type float"
AP-6356: Simple Streaming: Wrapped metanode appears to lock-up when it contains already executed nodes (should refuse execution instead)
AP-6351: File Meta info node fails with NPE for files on server
AP-6257: Association Rule Learner (Borgelt) shows negative RuleLift%
AP-6193: Potential deadlock under MacOS during startup
AP-6586: DataType.getName() method does not distinguish between SetCell and ListCell
AP-6484: Autocomplete Quickform view does not load
AP-6470: PhantomJS does not start under MacOS Sierra
AP-6143: License View doesn't open after update from AP 3.1 to AP 3.2
AP-6729: Group loops don't work with more than 100,000 groups
AP-6721: Equals and hashCode for MissingCells are not consistent
AP-6708: Joiner node fails to configure on compatible types (error: Type mismatch found of Joining Column Pair "Molecule (SMILES)" and "Molecule (SMILES)".This causes an empty output table.)
AP-6690: Save-As of workflows does not update mount point root in context
AP-6669: Delay spinner in GET Request node is disabled when workflow is re-opened
AP-6663: Java Snippet nodes use wrong encoding under Windows
AP-6661: Deserialization of JSONDataTable does not work
AP-6657: Testflow configuration node is not reset in streaming tests
AP-6645: Modular PMML nodes have incomprehensive error messages
AP-6641: Wrapping/unwrapping of meta nodes removes the node description
AP-6639: XPath dialog cannot identify tags in mixed text/tag lines
AP-6610: Long labels are cut off in Quickform Slider
AP-6590: Deserialization of JSONDataTableSpec does not work
AP-6578: DatabaseConnectionSettings should synchronize statement execution
AP-6574: JavaScript Scatter Plot: Selection is not retained after value is applied
AP-6572: Spark nodes stop working when JPMML nodes are installed
AP-6571: Spark nodes stop working when REST nodes are installed
AP-6568: Possible NPE when opening workflow on Linux with GTK 3+
AP-6522: Dragging PMML file onto workbench brings up deprecated PMML reader (expecting most recent reader)
AP-6506: Set look and feel in correct thread on startup
AP-6475: Random Forest nodes fail with NPE if a multiclass dataset contains missing values
AP-6442: Selection in javascript scatterplot is flaky
AP-6405: Javascript Scatter Plot: Changing columns for plot removes selection
AP-6395: JavaScript views should be assigned an aspect ratio based resize method in the layout by default
AP-6361: SAS Reader reads fields as Missing Values even though they exist
AP-6343: Wrapped metanode does not show outport names in tooltip
AP-6333: <first sheet with data> does not load first sheet's data to the File content table in XLS Reader
AP-6305: JSON Path node must not be executable without path expression
AP-5980: SPARQL Insert node cannot be interrupted
AP-5969: Streamed wrapped node fails on credentials flow variable in input
AP-5873: Selection in JS-Scatterplot not working on Linux
AP-5837: Fixed Width File Reader only allows selecting XML files in file chooser
AP-5682: Excel Writer writes file into installation directory when no path is provided
AP-5540: Text Mining: Strings 2 Document, adds "-" to author names if no first or lastname is specified
AP-5370: Image generated with JavaScript Line Plot displays x-axis labels in wrong order on Windows when a string column is selected
AP-5011: XLS Reader uses confusing row reference
AP-2658: XL Reader is off by one second
AP-2562: Some file browse dialogs need two clicks to gain focus
BD-272: (Big Data Extensions): Resetting Spark nodes throws exception if Spark context is closed
BD-271: (Big Data Extensions): Spark PMML Model Predictor throws exception when dialog is opened
BD-269: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Java Snippet node has problem if Spark version of incoming Spark context changes
BD-268: (Big Data Extensions): Table to Spark node requires too much memory for large tables
BD-256: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Job Server handles missing job results due to large jobs or job queue overflow more gracefully
BD-250: (Big Data Extensions): NullPointerException when destroying Spark context right after creation
BD-239: (Big Data Extensions): Create Spark Context node throws IllegalArgumentException when using Credentials Input
BD-235: (Big Data Extensions): XML syntax error in HiveLoad node description
BD-233: (Big Data Extensions): Fix null value handling in Fetch Row Spark Job
BD-227: (Big Data Extensions): Wait until remote spark context gets removed
BD-222: (Big Data Extensions): Destroy context with context per vm enabled causes job server to no longer accept new contexts
BD-219: (Big Data Extensions): Occasional error in spark extension: Execute failed: No Spark jobs for Spark version 1.6 found.
BD-187: (Big Data Extensions): HDFS file browsing is rooted at user home directory
BD-173: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Predictor with random forests model fails when jobserver is configured with jvm-per-context=true