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Changelog for KNIME Analytics Platform 3.7

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.7.2

Release date: April 18, 2019

Enhancements:

  • AP-11412: DevDoc: Write a new KNIME Node Extension Quickstart Guide
  • AP-11261: (API) Add hook to workflow loading routine to populate "knime.system.credentials"
  • AP-9412: Add new regions to AWS S3 Connector node

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-11596: Import preferences does not properly import mountpoints
  • AP-11531: Changing Multi-line editor width in String input Quickform does not work in 3.7
  • AP-11488: H2O confuses column name order when used with Spark Context
  • AP-11399: Error when input table is empty for "Row To Variable Loop Start" node
  • AP-11370: H2O Integration: Dialog of Table to H2O node does not work anymore
  • AP-11367: Column Enforce Inclusion/Exclusion Bug in Multiple Learner Nodes
  • AP-11583: POST Request node 'request body' configuration problems
  • AP-11580: H2O Integration: Typo in "H2O Multinominal Scorer"
  • AP-11577: KNIME Table API: RowIteratorBuilder not 'future proof' (will be removed from API and redone in 3.8)
  • AP-11530: Tile View (JavaScript) does not display SVGs in WebPortal
  • AP-11525: Stacked Area Chart assigns colors based on column order instead of column name
  • AP-11479: Network Viewer (JavaScript) Nullpointer Exception
  • AP-11466: Post Request nodes forgets URL settings on load
  • AP-11459: Send to Tableau Server (Hyper) node is not performing overwrites correctly
  • AP-11364: Dead link in OPTICS Cluster Assigner node description
  • AP-11359: 'POST Request node' - settings can throw java exceptions
  • AP-11356: Early stopping of Random Search does not work properly in certain cases
  • AP-11347: H2O scorer nodes fail with unmeaningful error messages if reference column contains missing values
  • AP-11342: Continued SWT leak hunting
  • AP-11317: JavaScript Histogram View fails on missing values
  • AP-11271: Missing Whiskers in Boxplot (JavaScript)
  • AP-11155: Java Snippet node configuration dialog loads awfully slow
  • BD-905: (Big Data Extensions): Hive to Spark/Spark to Hive do not work on HDP 3.x
  • BD-901: (Big Data Extensions): Adding flow variables in PySpark node breaks preset text areas
  • BD-900: (Big Data Extensions): Spark to H2O fails on 'Short' columns
  • BD-844: (Big Data Extensions): Fix column spec domain in Table to H2O Node with Sparkling Water Context
  • BD-838: (Big Data Extensions): Spark to H2O node only works with H2O Sparkling Water Context, configure fails with bad error message

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.7.1

Release date: January 29, 2019

Enhancements:

  • AP-11007: DL Framework: Add simple summary view to DL Port Objects
  • AP-10984: Rename "Card View" node to "Tile View" (otherwise infringing trademark held by 3rd party)
  • AP-10560: Update deprecated node of Cross Validation metanode

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-11264: Sorting table in table view causing documents to be shown as missing values
  • AP-11212: FileChooser doesn't work in WebPortal with Firefox
  • AP-11181: Refreshing parts of the workspace after workflow rename take longer than in 3.6
  • AP-11174: R integration: Columns are not kept if an empty table is returned from R to KNIME
  • AP-11032: Mountpoint gets deleted upon restart if it was set to inactive
  • AP-11031: Expression Engine: Scrollbar does not resize/appear
  • AP-10959: Expression Engine: min, max doesn't support Date&Time anymore
  • AP-11222: H2O Integration: Scorer node mixes up columns in the confusion matrix
  • AP-11192: Map Oracle type Date to local date time and not local date
  • AP-11182: Row Filter framework might cause problems during UI component initialization
  • AP-11162: "Table Row to Variable Loop Start": Table iterator leak making KNIME slower and slower for large number of iterations/tables
  • AP-11151: More SWT Windows handle leakage
  • AP-11124: DL Keras: Recurrent layers are broken
  • AP-11063: Cell Splitter by Position node checks wrong settings for column name duplicates during configuration
  • AP-11055: XGBoost Learner: Column moves from excluded to included on dialog reopen
  • AP-11049: Workflow editor missing after trying to maximize workflow
  • AP-11042: H2O Predictor nodes do not set a default column name in the dialog as other Predictor nodes do
  • AP-11041: DL Network Executor fails in streaming mode with Round Double node
  • AP-11039: Clean up dangling SWT handles
  • AP-11019: RegexMatcher in Expressions returns String
  • AP-11018: Text Mining: Tag Filter does not work properly with Zemberek Tags
  • AP-10982: Open workflow fails if db session for executed nodes can not be restored and thus does not exist
  • AP-10975: Tensorflow Extensions claims ownership of 'org.knime.base' -- nodes are possibly associated with this feature in the node description/usage records
  • AP-10947: R version detection reports invalid installation when Rserve (or any other dependency) is missing
  • AP-10912: DB Connector node should update type mapping when database type changes
  • AP-10891: Send Email waiting endless for email server response
  • AP-10735: DL TensorFlow Reader: Error console output during typing
  • BD-883: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Entropy Scorer fails with NullPointerException on missing values
  • BD-878: (Big Data Extensions): PySpark Snippet nodes fail in local big data environment on Windows
  • BD-776: (Big Data Extensions): Unpersist Spark DataFrame/RDD node makes DataFrame/RDD unavailable
  • BD-655: (Big Data Extensions): Spark GroupBy fails on numeric aggregations for boolean columns
  • BD-654: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Scorer should ignore rows with missing values
  • BD-653: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Collaborative Filtering Learner dialog should should not allow boolean columns as user or product columns
  • BD-630: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Category to Number fails on missing values

KNIME Analytics Platform 3.7.0

(see highlight summary)

Release date: December 6, 2018

New Nodes:

  • AP-10977: XGBoost Integration: Various new nodes integrating the XGBoost machine learning library (Labs)
  • AP-10435: Google Authentication (interactive authentication for Google Drive/Sheets/Analytics/...)
  • AP-8967: Updated Tableau Integration ('Hyper' support -- two nodes: Write Hyper file and Send to Server)
  • AP-7812: Histogram (JavaScript)
  • AP-10123: Card View (JavaScript)
  • AP-7811: Hierarchical Cluster Assigner (JavaScript)
  • AP-5181: Heatmap (JavaScript)
  • AP-10036: Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (statistical hypothesis test)
  • AP-9010: CSS Editor
  • AP-10976: Database Integration (Labs): Rewrite of existing DB client nodes, supporting more connectors (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server), connection pooling, rich type support, powerful editors, etc. (part of KNIME Labs)
  • AP-9938: Friedman Test (non-parametric statistical test)
  • AP-9937: Proportion Test (statistical hypothesis test)
  • AP-9907: Container Input (Credentials)
  • AP-9466: Google Drive Connection
  • AP-10404: Turkish POS Tagger
  • AP-10403: Turkish Stemmer
  • BD-781: (Big Data Extensions): PySpark Script nodes
  • BD-435: (Big Data Extensions): Spark Row Filter node

Enhancements:

  • AP-10809: Upgrade bundled H2 database driver to 1.4.196
  • AP-10717: Expression Engine: UI Improvements
  • AP-10673: Consistent background colours for JavaScript scatter and line plot
  • AP-10644: JS views: new aspect ratio setting "square" (1:1)
  • AP-10636: H2O Integration: H2O Scorer nodes should push scores as flow variables
  • AP-10577: Python: Allow Python environment selection via flow variable
  • AP-10529: Container Input (Table) with optional table spec in JSON input
  • AP-10489: Optimize Parquet Dictionary Encoding
  • AP-10451: R Snippet Dialog: Allow eval current line when nothing selected
  • AP-10425: Move Annotations to Back/Front context menu entries
  • AP-10406: Turkish stopword list
  • AP-10397: FileStoreCell: Support for managing multiple FileStores
  • AP-10379: IO Improvements for Keras and Tensorflow
  • AP-10334: Container Input (Table) with new option to expose example table to the API definition based on the input table
  • AP-10292: One To Many node throws misleading error when the domain of the input table contains more than 60 distinct values
  • AP-10268: Python: Jupyter notebook support for Python nodes
  • AP-10262: Improved error message for Call Workflow (Table based)
  • AP-10221: Layout changes to support nested layouts (from nested wrapped metanodes)
  • AP-10220: Nested Wrapped Metanodes behave the same as WizardNodes
  • AP-10218: JavaScript scorer improvements
  • AP-10136: Call Workflow (Table Based) improve invocation naming to reflect actual behavior
  • AP-10075: Upgrade Tika version to latest version
  • AP-10068: Column Expressions: Allow Conversion of DataCells
  • AP-10037: Crosstab: improve default settings for Cross tabulation view
  • AP-10034: Shapiro Wilk Normality Test: support multiple columns
  • AP-10027: Wilcoxon Signed-Rank: compute median per column
  • AP-10026: Statistics Nodes: show p-values with Full Precision by default
  • AP-9845: Hyperparameter Optimization: Random Search
  • AP-9814: Java Snippet to provide meaningful error message in log file
  • AP-9799: Discard after execution option for Call Workflow (Table Based) node
  • AP-9739: Turkish Tokenizer
  • AP-9718: Make Cross Joiner Streamable
  • AP-9610: Make Color Manager able to dynamically update possible values when using Palettes
  • AP-9603: H2O Nodes - Better progress reporting when run with Sparkling water context.
  • AP-9566: Column Expressions: New Functions to read / manipulate / create cell collections
  • AP-9564: Workflow Editor: yellow message bar ("you are editing a remote workflow") always to be pinned to the top of the current view port
  • AP-9526: Cell Splitter with option to guess number of columns based on first rows only
  • AP-9525: Line Reader with option to read first row as column header
  • AP-9524: Cell Splitter: "Split header column"
  • AP-9492: Settings option to issue a warning when a node is replaced/inserted
  • AP-9419: Python: Update Apache Arrow version to 0.10.0
  • AP-9380: Upgrade Excel processing library (Apache POI) to version 3.17 (fixes issues reported in forum)
  • AP-9357: Send Credentials via Call Workflow (Table Based)
  • AP-9273: Retain order of nodes in wrapped metanode layout editor
  • AP-9250: Text Mining: Add possibility to use custom model for OpenNLP tagger
  • AP-9082: Keyboard actions to zoom in/out in workflow editor
  • AP-8997: Lower severity level of "possible deadlock" message detector
  • AP-8853: Tableau: Append to TDE file
  • AP-8638: JS Views bidirectional communication support - core changes
  • AP-8593: More intuitive paradigm to edit and move annotations
  • AP-8470: Python: Allow cancelling data transfer
  • AP-8266: Speed up of parameter optimization loops
  • AP-7939: Re-enable the "Fullscreen" button in javascript views that aren't running in the WebPortal
  • AP-7561: (API): ColumnRearranger to filter out unused columns when reading reference table (significant speed-up for large workflows when using Parquet table format)
  • AP-7248: "Timer Info" node also recording statistics of nodes contained in meta nodes (non-wrapped)
  • AP-6869: New Date/Time support in Tableau nodes (Hyper only)
  • AP-6139: JavaScript Pie Chart: support selection
  • AP-5352: Cell Splitter with option to replace input column
  • AP-5233: Pivoting node needs column naming options
  • BD-808: (Big Data Extensions): PySpark support for Local Big Data Environment
  • BD-803: (Big Data Extensions): Upgrade "Create Local Big Data Environment" node to Spark 2.4
  • BD-802: (Big Data Extensions): Add Spark 2.4 to KNIME Extension for Apache Spark
  • BD-799: (Big Data Extensions): Support KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark with local big data environments
  • BD-762: (Big Data Extensions): Add type handling support to Parquet reader and writer
  • BD-761: (Big Data Extensions): Add type handling support to ORC reader and writer
  • BD-548: (Big Data Extensions): Support cancelation of wrapped metanodes with KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark jobmanager
  • BD-356: (Big Data Extensions): Selectable job manager for KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark
  • BD-318: (Big Data Extensions): Configurable persistence level of DataFrame created by KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark
  • BD-317: (Big Data Extensions): KNIME on Spark: Add support for ingoing flow variables
  • BD-316: (Big Data Extensions): Support preference import from KNIME Server into KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark
  • BD-128: (Big Data Extensions): Enable arbitrary input ports with KNIME Workflow Executor for Apache Spark jobmanager

Bug Fixes:

  • AP-10873: Bar Chart legend overlaps bins under specific requirements
  • AP-10851: JavaScripts nodes blocking KNIME Server (on Oracle Linux)
  • AP-10834: JavaScript Barchart does cut off visualisation early when stacking is used
  • AP-10800: CTRL SHIFT ENTER does not execute node and open outport view
  • AP-10555: Create Directory node fails
  • AP-10884: XGBoost Locale Problems
  • AP-10876: Resource leak in SftpURLConnection
  • AP-10874: Improve EXAMPLES Server login failure message
  • AP-10853: TagCloud: one word is colored wrong
  • AP-10845: Connection loss when replacing output node in meta-node
  • AP-10839: Default password in credentials input node does not work with REST interface
  • AP-10823: Configuration dialogs of various learner nodes do not update twin list after new target is selected
  • AP-10802: Parameter Optimization Loop Start outputs rounding errors
  • AP-10792: Decision Tree Predictor fails if the input contains a column with the prediction column name
  • AP-10773: Card View: Title & menu take up too much space
  • AP-10756: Random Search: Make use of stepSize
  • AP-10741: Wrapped-Metanode: Input / Output nodes can be deleted after changing port configuration (but shouldn't)
  • AP-10727: Improve error messages for Download node when file does exist in Google Drive
  • AP-10726: Can't resize annotations in zoomed in/out workflows
  • AP-10710: No varargs possible for string-functions in Expression Engine
  • AP-10693: Some views do not have full screen buttons
  • AP-10659: JS Parallel Coordinates plot doesn't respond to selection in a composite view when the RowIds have complex format
  • AP-10654: Random Forest Learner (dialog): When changing target, the old value goes into the 'exclude' list -- should be included
  • AP-10653: Container Input (Table) silently accepts invalid input (e.g. "blah" in an int column is represented as missing)
  • AP-10638: "Decision Tree to Ruleset" node fails on boolean splits
  • AP-10569: Column Expressions node not parsing argument correctly when starting with (
  • AP-10547: H2O: Column type lost if passed through node
  • AP-10543: Math Formula (Multi Column) with RegEx throws error
  • AP-10531: Call Workflow node fails to send URI columns to Container IO nodes
  • AP-10528: Strange behaviour of String Manipulation (Flow Variable) node inside of Counting Loop
  • AP-10511: JS Parallel Coordinates: Selection lost when resizing window
  • AP-10447: Wrapped Metanodes invert order of flow variables
  • AP-10434: Column Splitter shows warning if not-enforced columns are not available
  • AP-10419: Range Slider Filter Definition node: Rounding min/max range issue
  • AP-10409: Typo in "Reset not allowed" dialog.
  • AP-10354: Parallel Coordinates plot cuts long labels on the first axis
  • AP-10331: DL Keras: Sequential to Model converting different in Keras 2.2.0
  • AP-10280: MacOS app bundle contains multiple instances of Chromium, resulting in excessive disk usage
  • AP-10279: Integer Overflow in BufferedDataTable's incrementing IDs
  • AP-10254: Table View does not respond to filters on excluded columns
  • AP-10144: Table Validator does not convert integer to doubles
  • AP-10122: Configuration dialog doesn't show when KNIME is not the active window on macOS
  • AP-10109: Create Collection Column: typo in the node description
  • AP-9943: Javascript Box Plot cuts long label names on y axis.
  • AP-9871: Metanodes in Wrapped Metanode will fail without reason under detailed circumstances.
  • AP-9775: Automatically connect DL nodes in the workflow by double clicking the node in Node Repository
  • AP-9669: DL Keras: Node Generation Spinner Widget Bugs
  • AP-9628: Workflow Editor: Replacing a node destroys customized link geometries
  • AP-9581: Node (Un)Linking Hot Buttons do not work with Metanode boundaries
  • AP-9455: H2O Integration: Stratified Partitioning problem (missing token, incorrect number of arguments, ...)
  • AP-9247: Create FileStore Column in LoopEnd causes test workflows to fail
  • AP-9167: String Manipulation (Variable) displays incorrect default value for "Replace Variable" when one has been set already.
  • AP-8973: Unexpected display behavior when choosing filepath in quickform
  • AP-8923: Tableau Server node description refers to Visual Basic 2013, but links to Visual C++ 2013
  • AP-8711: H2O Cluster Assigner Duplicate column names
  • AP-8126: Column aggregator needs to handle duplicate column names
  • AP-8114: Excel Reader produces wrong output for Japanese characters
  • AP-7592: File Reader fails on spaces in URL (should handle gracefully -- e.g. when using knime:// URLs)
  • AP-5759: Weka 3.7 splash icons not shown
  • AP-5653: JavaScript Box plot does not handle special doubles correctly (Nan and infinity)
  • AP-5245: Naive Bayes Predictor: numerical problems with close-to-0-variance attributes + predicted probabilities slightly off according to PMML standard
  • AP-4780: kNN node creates non-standard names for probability columns
  • BD-806: (Big Data Extensions): Prevent IO in configure of FileFormatWriter/ReaderNodeModel
  • BD-778: (Big Data Extensions): Spark SQL port causes unpersisting of cached DataFrames