Sahara/ReleaseNotes/Icehouse

New Project Name
Sahara project was known as Savanna until March 2014, when the project was renamed to avoid trademark issues.

Key New Features

 * Sahara in DevStack: Sahara will be installed with the DevStack if you add ENABLED_SERVICES+=,sahara line to your localrc.
 * Integration with Heat: Heat is now supported as a provisioning engine. When the engine is enabled Heat manages all the infrastructure: instances, floating IPs, volumes, etc.
 * Hadoop 2: Vanilla and HDP plugins now support Hadoop 2 for both provisioning and EDP.
 * New EDP actions: MapReduce.Streaming and Java actions are now supported.
 * CLI client: python-saharaclient now provides CLI interface along with Python bindings.

Known Issues

 * Bug 1308541 Sahara does not work with Nova-Network if auto_assign_floating_ip=False in nova.conf.
 * Bug 1307960 Broken validation prevents job execution on transient clusters with some probability.