[ANNOUNCE] Apache Knox 0.14.0 Release

[larry mccay <lm...@apache.org>]

The Apache Knox team is proud to announce the release of Apache Knox 0.14.0!

Apache Knox is a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data
and processing resources of Hadoop clusters. More details on Apache Knox
can be found at: http://knox.apache.org/

This release is primarily focused on improving the manageability aspects of
Knox.
KIP-8 detailed the focus on leveraging ecosystem APIs as service registries
(Apache Ambari) and having a remote location to discovery configuration
rather than local disk for every Knox instance. This feature will work
alongside of existing support for authoring topology XML files but will
begin to focus administrative actions on the simplified descriptors to
generate topologies.

This release will be followed up shortly by another with package changes
and minor bug fixes to represent our 1.0.0 release.

Some of the highlights of this release are:

   - Service Discovery from Ambari for Topology Generation
   - Simplified Descriptors to Drive Topology Generation
   - Monitoring of ZooKeeper for Remote Configuration
   - Shared Provider Configuration Across Topologies
   - Related Admin API and UI Changes
   - Nifi Proxy Support
   - Livy API Proxy Support
   - HA Support For Apache SOLR, HBase & Kafka
   - Websocket Support Improvements
   - Many other improvements and bug fixes!


The release bits are available at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.14.0

The change list is in the CHANGES file in the above directory.

We would like to thank all contributors who made the release possible and
to invite others, that are interested in helping out, to engage the
community on the dev and users lists!

In particular, we'd like to thank the following contributors from our
community:

Phil Zampino
Andreas Hildebrandt
Madhan Neethiraj
Mars
Venkatasairam Lanka
Wei Han
Jeff Storck
Rick Kellogg
Jérôme Leleu

and anyone that I have missed!