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Changelog for KNIME Analytics Platform 3.6

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.6.2

Release date: Nov 6, 2018

Enhancements:

  • AP-10242: Speed up execution of Bar Chart (JavaScript) and Pie/Donut Chart (JavaScript)

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-10383: Context Menu dialog opens when applying changes in workflow annotations on Mac OS
  • AP-10377: Download/Upload from List fails when downloading files
  • AP-10342: Bit vectors have the same icon as booleans
  • AP-10580: Streamed Wrapped Metanodes can't be properly canceled when in 'queued' state (leaves workflow in inconsistent state)
  • AP-10574: Numeric Median Test: IndexOutOfBoundException
  • AP-10540: JS Parallel coordinates plot should order categorical axes lexically
  • AP-10496: H2O Integration: H2O MOJO Writer throws NPE when writing back to the server
  • AP-10484: DB locking might freeze KNIME server
  • AP-10468: The output ports are swapped in H2O Cross Validation Loop Start node
  • AP-10456: File Reader hangs when using Quick Scan for large files (no progress bar but background proc ongoing)
  • AP-10436: Call Remote Workflow node uses too low network timeout
  • AP-10431: Column Type Auto Cast node: Inconsistent behavior for empty string handling
  • AP-10426: S3 Delete Files fails without checking the option to abort on fail
  • AP-10382: Text Mining: DmlDocumentParser erase last parsed term due to a referencing issue
  • AP-10370: Text Mining: Document Data Assigner fails if file store chunk size is set to a low value in preferences
  • AP-10363: Window Loop Start fails when run concurrently
  • AP-10341: Not supported style rules in SVGs might lead to null pointer exception in Batik 1.7
  • AP-10332: Bar Chart (JavaScript), new option to display maximum values
  • AP-10295: Scorer Node Description: Link "accuracy statistics" is not correct
  • AP-10263: Decision Tree Predictor fails if too many class values on append probabilities.
  • AP-10219: JavaScript scorer: disabling "Display confusion matrix totals as rates" disables the totals completely
  • AP-10216: Math Formula (Multi Column) fails on calculating statistics for non "CURRENT_COLUMNS"
  • AP-10197: 100 % accuracy in the view of the Scorer (JavaScript) node even though some samples are not classified correctly
  • AP-9811: Table Reader fails with "No entry data.bin in file" on non table files
  • AP-9255: Wrapped Metanode - Node Usage Configuration Tab is missing Dialog Pane
  • AP-7931: Python: Correct support for float32 in python bridge
  • AP-7761: R_HOME value cause minor UI crash with invalid value
  • AP-6190: X-Partitioner is missing description for Linear Sampling

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.6.1

Release date: Sep 3, 2018

Enhancements:

  • AP-10071: Expression Engine: Change Math Functions to use a JavaMethodProvider
  • AP-9797: Call Workflow (Table Based) improve user error messages
  • AP-9048: DB Connector node: Strip leading and trailing white spaces from jdbc url

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-10240: OSM Map View: MapQuest tiles broken
  • AP-10192: JS Table View: "Subscribe to filter" menu option has no effect
  • AP-10039: Eclipse help doesn't work any more due to wrong bundle resolution
  • AP-10014: JSON to Table and JSON Path nodes throw errors when keys contain a comma
  • AP-9948: JavaScript bar chart NP when plot horizontal bars is selected with image generation
  • AP-9888: Iframe wrong resizing different quickform views to a minimum of 150px
  • AP-9887: Label of range slider has now huge black font as a title
  • AP-9885: JS Bar Chart losing interactivity on mouse-over when in wrapped metanode view
  • AP-9117: Fix OSM preference page
  • AP-10294: Don't show individual interactive views in context menu of a wrapped metanode
  • AP-10284: Opening exported workflow without data may cause NPE in JS views and quickform nodes
  • AP-10243: H2O Integration: Wrong node types/colors
  • AP-10232: Java Snippet: Missing Converter Cache causes exception when creating file store cells on output
  • AP-10195: IllegalStateException during execution of Chunk Loop
  • AP-10184: Missing Value node sometimes cannot be loaded
  • AP-10145: H2O Integration: Predictor nodes report missing columns if column is of wrong type
  • AP-10135: Strip function description in String Manipulation and Column Expression node
  • AP-10127: DL Keras: Forbid to output the input-layer in executor
  • AP-10117: Multiple dragged nodes delete single node
  • AP-10115: Fix label position of 'load'-button in node monitor
  • AP-10105: Selected back end 'Keras (TensorFlow)' is not available anymore
  • AP-10103: Unhandled event loop exception when trying to insert a node between two connected nodes inside a meta node
  • AP-10084: The WebPortal/Wrapped Meta Node option gets checked every time configuration of a JavaScript View node is changed
  • AP-10081: Expression Engine: Strings get wrongfully recognized as identifiers
  • AP-10070: Expression Engine: Function average does not skip missing values and NaN
  • AP-10061: DL Keras: Failing when keras runs in parallel
  • AP-10060: DL Keras: Unconfigured keras network learner throws NullPointerException
  • AP-10055: DL Keras: Network Reader loses executed state if file not available and not copied
  • AP-10048: PMML: Load (compiled) Model Content fails under Windows
  • AP-10025: Document Vector Applier does not adjust columns order before creating a collection cell
  • AP-10016: Problem restoring mountpoint state
  • AP-10010: DeepLearning4J: Better error message on OutOfMemory Error
  • AP-9968: Call Workflow (Table Based) does not close called workflows on dispose
  • AP-9966: Excel Reader Timeouts too small (causes some internal test cases to sporadically fail)
  • AP-9942: DL Keras: Custom loss fails for Model API
  • AP-9933: Missing Value node slows down workflow load
  • AP-9906: Call Workflow (Table Based) outputs non informative NPE error message from Non-Native data value
  • AP-9884: Expression Engine: Fix creation of LocalDateTime
  • AP-9875: Wrapped Metanode Selection Interactivity lost after closing and re-opening KNIME
  • AP-9857: BarChart Tooltip display inconvenience
  • AP-9843: DL Keras: Regularizers, Initializers, Constraints are not validated
  • AP-9675: Call Workflow (Table Based) can not be configured when in temporary state
  • AP-9476: HTTP/HTTPS Connection nodes ignore KNIME's proxy settings (configured in 'Preferences')
  • AP-9454: KNIME Protocol not properly resolved for Temp Workflows when workspace contains space character
  • AP-9439: Text Mining: French Stanford POS model uses another tag set than FTB
  • AP-9410: Text Mining: StanfordNLP PTBTokenizer does not work in some cases
  • AP-9149: Workflows fail when Python nodes run in parallel
  • AP-8850: Bar Chart: shows last Missing Value Warning, even if those are resolved.
  • AP-8829: JavaScript Bar Chart only shows one decimal digit in y-axis label
  • AP-8612: Python: Distinguish between SocketException causes during kernel startup
  • AP-7306: JavaScript Bar Chart truncates labels
  • AP-6424: Kruskal Wallis test - Contradiction between R and KNIME
  • BD-775: (Big Data Extensions): Livy Job Controller changes order of files in Job with Files Implementations
  • BD-772: (Big Data Extensions): Create Local Big Data Environment fails when hostname contains invalid characters
  • BD-771: (Big Data Extensions): KNIME-on-Spark jar collection does not work in KNIME 3.6
  • BD-726: (Big Data Extensions): Parquet writer node allows wrong input for filename
  • BD-689: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Reader/Writer nodes do not support spaces in file path
  • BD-624: (Big Data Extensions): Create Local Big Data Environment: Create-Destroy-Create fails when Hive data folder is set
  • BD-607: (Big Data Extensions): Deactivating impersonation on KNIME Server with Simba drivers results in "GSS initiate failed"

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.6.0

(see highlight summary)

Release date: July 11, 2018

New Nodes:

  • AP-9873: Kafka Integration (Labs; several nodes to produce and consume messages from Apache Kafka)
  • AP-9869: Deep Learning Tensorflow Integration (nodes to read/write and run TensorFlow deep learning models)
  • AP-9867: Deep Learning Keras Integration (major enhancements and 50+ new nodes to design deep learning networks)
  • AP-9863: H2O Sparkling Water Integration (Run any H2O KNIME Workflow on Apache Spark using "H2O Sparkling Water")
  • AP-9862: New Database Integration (25+ node nodes; enhanced capabilities, e.g. connection pooling, JDBC dialect support, feature richt SQL editor, rich type support, etc.)
  • AP-9472: Call Workflow (Table Based)
  • AP-9292: Service Variable Input (a node to simplify assembling workflows that are called by other workflows or via REST interface)
  • AP-9104: Service Table Input (a node to simplify assembling workflows that are called by other workflows or via REST interface)
  • AP-8996: Constant Value Column Filter
  • AP-8864: Numeric Outliers (Apply)
  • AP-8745: Column Expressions (apply advanced expressions to modify or append a number of columns)
  • AP-8732: Git Client Integration (a number of nodes to read information from Git repositories)
  • AP-8676: Dictionary Tagger (Multi Column)
  • AP-7707: Text Mining: New Stop Word Filter (revised)
  • AP-7247: Text Mining: Term Neighborhood Extractor
  • AP-6411: Javascript Scorer Node
  • AP-5355: Numeric Outliers
  • BD-682: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Association Rule (Apply)
  • BD-681: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Frequent Item Sets
  • BD-596: (Big Data Extensions): Create Spark Context (Livy)
  • BD-577: (Big Data Extensions): ORC File Writer
  • BD-576: (Big Data Extensions): Parquet File Writer
  • BD-572: (Big Data Extensions): ORC File Reader
  • BD-571: (Big Data Extensions): Parquet File Reader
  • BD-547: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Missing Value (Apply)
  • BD-534: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Association Rule Learner
  • BD-532: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Pivot

Enhancements:

  • AP-9219: Upgrade underlying Eclipse framework to version 4.7.3
  • AP-9515: Text Mining: Update node description of POS Tagger and OpenNLP NE Tagger
  • AP-9510: Flow Variable of type date can't be used as flow variable input
  • AP-9496: Adding Padding Method to String Manipulation and Expression Engine
  • AP-9480: Consistency of messages for temporary workflow copies opened in workbench
  • AP-9421: Update JSON Path library to 2.4.0
  • AP-9420: KNIME SVG Support Extension as part of Standard Build
  • AP-9251: Bundled Chromium for Mac and Linux
  • AP-9223: KNIME protocol relative paths should work in when editing server workflows
  • AP-9221: Workflow Difference to also inspect contents of Wrapped Metanodes
  • AP-9193: Include global and user generated CSS in all JavaScript views
  • AP-9139: H2O Integration: Improve node description for scorer and predictor nodes
  • AP-9127: Node Generation: Implement prototype for new annotations
  • AP-9032: Excel style selection of multiple cells and copying their values in Table View (JavaScript)
  • AP-8989: Improved persistence of server mountpoints in Analytics Platform
  • AP-8977: Speedup Logistic Regression Predictor, especially for 'wide' data/fingerprints (tens of hundreds of attributes)
  • AP-8976: DL Framework: Rename nodes
  • AP-8965: R Integration: Improve detection of R Installation
  • AP-8925: Update Infocom/ChemAxon extension to 3.6.0.v0901
  • AP-8916: DL Framework: Make environment setup cancelable
  • AP-8892: Recursive Loop End(s) with Option to choose FlowVariable in Dialog
  • AP-8840: DL Framework: Integer collection to one-hot vector converter
  • AP-8823: Amazon S3 nodes to support Server-Side Encryption
  • AP-8748: Column-based storage: Support more than just native types
  • AP-8744: Improve performance of DataCell#getType()
  • AP-8731: DataTableDomainCreator: Improve performance
  • AP-8723: Make Ungroup-node streamable
  • AP-8704: New table storage format for KNIME tables based on Apache ORC (labs)
  • AP-8683: Column Filter ("Twin List") with improved filter option
  • AP-8636: (API) Credentials to be available during loadInternals()
  • AP-8614: URI Ports selectable in Metanode's Add Port dialog
  • AP-8613: Support the extended character limit for Tweets
  • AP-8598: Text Mining: Remove document cell type selection from preference page
  • AP-8592: Placeholder if no results are found in node repository
  • AP-8568: Switch from PhantomJS to headless Chromium for image generation in JavaScript views
  • AP-8555: Move individual views from context menu of wrapped metanodes into submenu
  • AP-8544: JavaScript Table Editor: support keyboard navigation
  • AP-8543: JavaScript Table Editor: support pasting multiple values
  • AP-8494: DL Framework: Auto-mapping of dimensions for multi-dim inputs
  • AP-8451: Add better default color palette option to Color Manager node
  • AP-8447: File Upload supporting S3 buckets with permissions managed with IAM policies
  • AP-8432: Python Framework: Pure message driven communication
  • AP-8360: Add in-memory credentials to Google Sheets Interactive Service Provider
  • AP-8351: DL Framework: Keep column selection for networks with same input / outputs
  • AP-8275: Dialog Component date to set time to 0 on empty all fields
  • AP-8268: DeepLearning4J: Preference page options are not applied
  • AP-8036: DL Framework: Support for not or partially defined input shapes
  • AP-7884: H2O Integration: Inform user about column matching problems in H2O Predictor nodes
  • AP-7682: "FTP Connection" node with to support proxies
  • AP-7560: Column-based storage: New Parquet table format
  • AP-7558: (API) Extension point for table serializers (Parquet, ORC, Standard-KNIME)
  • AP-7532: Replace variables in preferences files before application
  • AP-7531: Write additional profile files to workspace directory
  • AP-7530: Create plug-in customization file from preference profiles
  • AP-7529: Add extension point for preference profile providers
  • AP-7514: H2O Integration: Variable Importance Measurement Output DRF / GBM
  • AP-7513: H2O Integration: Partitioner Options
  • AP-7001: Java Snippet: New dialog tab to add installed bundles to code classpath
  • AP-5673: Allow connecting and unconnecting nodes using keyboard shortcuts
  • AP-5238: Node Replacement/Insertion to also work when moving nodes
  • AP-5062: Better Zooming in workflow editor: as low as 25% zoom level and ctrl+mousescroll to zoom in/out
  • AP-3136: Update Apache Batik to 1.7
  • BD-685: (Big Data Extensions): Add remote file handling input port to Create Spark Context (Livy) node
  • BD-666: (Big Data Extensions): Add Spark 2.3 to KNIME Extension for Apache Spark
  • BD-659: (Big Data Extensions): Update hadoop-client library from 2.7.4 to 2.7.6
  • BD-635: (Big Data Extensions): Reduce Spark Exception error messages length
  • BD-629: (Big Data Extensions): Big data file format support for Spark to Hive (Impala)
  • BD-611: (Big Data Extensions): Use new Spark DataFrame API in preprocessing nodes (partition, sampling, sort, rename column and join)
  • BD-609: (Big Data Extensions): New seed parameter in Spark Collaborative Filtering Learner node
  • BD-507: (Big Data Extensions): New seed parameter in Spark k-Means node
  • BD-450: (Big Data Extensions): Revise Spark PCA node
  • BD-217: (Big Data Extensions): Add option to replace original columns to Spark Transformations Applier
  • BD-47: (Big Data Extensions): Improve append to existing Hive/Impala table with Hive/Impala Loader

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-9672: Column/value selection quickforms broken in Firefox
  • AP-9494: Table Writer has path from history set on create
  • AP-9762: Table to H2O does not filter out String columns with only missing values
  • AP-9735: Text Mining: Dictionary Tagger does not find repetitive patterns and does not tag all entity occurences
  • AP-9651: Writer nodes should handle cancellation gracefully
  • AP-9647: Settings are not stored when restarting after prompt
  • AP-9643: H2O Add Limit To Number of rows being cached.
  • AP-9642: JavaScript scorer node: Non-informative error on numerical columns
  • AP-9618: Learning monitor shows nothing when "log scale" is selected in Accuracy mode
  • AP-9598: Curved connection created between nodes outside the viewport doesn't show up (fully)
  • AP-9594: DL Framework: Selection of inputs via Pattern doesn't work
  • AP-9593: Pie/Donut Chart not executed when frequency column value is 0
  • AP-9588: Nullpointer in Value Selection Quickform
  • AP-9585: File access problem while saving workflow
  • AP-9556: Line Plot (JavaScript) fails to create SVG, if too many Y axis columns
  • AP-9554: Problem opening two JavaScript-Views at the same time
  • AP-9534: Possible message during update: "An exception occurred while executing a runnable."
  • AP-9518: Determining MAC addresses on Ubuntu 18.04 fails due to missing ifconfig command
  • AP-9516: DL Keras: DLKerasTuple is not grayed out if optional
  • AP-9497: DL TensorFlow Reader: possible race condition
  • AP-9483: H2O Integration: Table to Frame casts to TypeCell instead of TypeValue
  • AP-9481: Standard BIRT template out of date
  • AP-9449: Tree Ensembles: Serialization bug for nominal columns with many possible values
  • AP-9447: H2O Integration: Random Forest Learner crashs unexpected for very small data sets
  • AP-9404: 'Download / Upload from List' fail to create parent folders
  • AP-9397: H2O Integration: Target column present in column selection when dialog opened
  • AP-9374: Column Auto Type Cast fails if converted column is all missing values
  • AP-9368: Deep Learning Learning Monitor view too large vertically
  • AP-9356: Call Local Workflow occasionally does not update Path in configuration dialog
  • AP-9283: UI Width of element in Row Filter too small
  • AP-9261: Zipped files in workflow will not exported when 'Reset workflow(s) before export' enabled
  • AP-9228: File chooser component does not reset after 'cancel' in dialog is clicked
  • AP-9215: MacOS: Clear Console Crash
  • AP-9212: Wrapped metanode templates don't receive username when newly created.
  • AP-9203: Null pointer exception in Random Forest
  • AP-9201: Quick Node Insertion hotkey (ctrl-space) does not select text already present in search box
  • AP-9151: Null Pointer in Data Explorer
  • AP-9119: R Integration: Errors during printing a value are not properly escaped
  • AP-9118: Unzip Files: Null pointer exception when setting flow variable for output directory
  • AP-9111: DL Framework: Invalid converter when input changed
  • AP-9109: Filename persists in dialog despite user hitting cancel (Windows only)
  • AP-9089: DL Framework: Investigate converter matching issues
  • AP-9055: H2O Integration: Fix functionality of H2O Binomial Scorer
  • AP-9053: Red X stays on node if node replacement is aborted with ESC
  • AP-9052: Scatter Matrix node throws nullpointer for emtpy string column
  • AP-9009: Java Snippet Dialog does not show missing jar files
  • AP-8987: Workflow Coach locks KNIME when configured without Internet
  • AP-8985: (Workflow) Annotation text possibly truncated when workflow zoomed > 150%
  • AP-8724: Inconsistent Names of Prediction Columns in TreeEnsembleLearner (space missing)
  • AP-8685: Abnormal memory consumption in ExplorerFileStoreTransfer
  • AP-8682: Improve NameFilter save/load filter configuration performance
  • AP-8680: Table Creator: Inconsistent right-click behaviour on column header
  • AP-8677: DL Framework: Dialog cannot be opened: failed to load config
  • AP-8665: XML documents are not thread-safe
  • AP-8607: Workspace Launcher is called Eclipse Launcher
  • AP-8586: Workflow Coach Preferences can be set even if not enabled
  • AP-8577: H2O Integration: Column Selection does not save Wildcard/RegEx and Type Selection
  • AP-8365: Workflow Coach View: Truncated text
  • AP-8364: DataColumnSpecFilterPanel: Extremly slow for tables with many columns
  • AP-8018: Dialog hot keys for Ok+execute is not reliably working
  • AP-7835: DataColumnSpecFilterPanel: Changes of the input column type lead to inclusion of filtered out columns when enforce inclusion is selected
  • AP-6886: Parallel chunk loop fails if in wrapped meta node
  • AP-6821: Width of UI element in POST Request node dialog overly large
  • AP-6558: R nodes don't provide full error message
  • AP-6267: Unzip file node fails with NPE on invalid file
  • AP-5670: Keyboard shortcuts not consistently working on MacOS
  • AP-3134: SVG output in pie charts is broken when one Pie is >0.5
  • BD-714: (Big Data Extensions): Remove confirmation dialog in "Destroy Spark Context" node
  • BD-712: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Joiner fails if column names contains dots
  • BD-699: (Big Data Extensions): Parquet to Spark does not allow to select file when Source is invalid
  • BD-697: (Big Data Extensions): Spark PCA node fails to refresh the target dimension control after clicking the Flow Variables Tab
  • BD-689: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Reader/Writer nodes do not support spaces in file path
  • BD-667: (Big Data Extensions): Spark "mean" missing value handler should change column type to double
  • BD-652: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Learner and Scorer nodes should handle booleans
  • BD-642: (Big Data Extensions): Spark PCA/SVD/Correlation Matrix on Spark 2.x produce different specs in KNIME and Spark
  • BD-634: (Big Data Extensions): Mass column renaming on Spark 2.x takes too long
  • BD-627: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Transformation Applier produces broken DataFrame/RDD for type-changing transformations
  • BD-612: (Big Data Extensions): Spark table spec contains possibly wrong metadata
  • BD-393: (Big Data Extensions): Spark context state management prevents users from reusing RDDs