Streaming 11.1.0 Release Notes

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Spotfire Streaming introduces a new feature called Data Streams for Cloud, a separately installable web service that allows you to create LiveView Tables (referred to as Data Streams) in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments from your web browser. Data Streams are managed windows of event data from a streaming data source backed by Liveview, that directly becomes available for analysis in Spotfire, or other clients using new REST interfaces.

Streaming products from Cloud Software Group are now part of the Spotfire product line, and to reflect the change, the installer files on eDelivery are now prefixed with SPOT_ instead of TIB_.

The archive files from the unpack action of the archive-bin installers for Streaming products are now in XZ (LZMA) format, and so have the file extension tar.xz. The tar xf (extract) command determines the compression type from the file name, so switches like J (LZMA) and z (gzip) are no longer needed when extracting an installation from them.

Program names and identifiers for Streaming are unchanged, and the default install locations follow the same pattern of previous releases.

Spotfire Data Streams 11.1.0 includes a standalone installation of Maven 3.9.4 for customer command-line use as described in the Maven entry of the Supported Configurations page.

A new field named Region Load has been added in the sbprofile queue report. The Region Load represents the percentage of the time a region was processing tuples since the last profiler report. For more information, see Queue Statistics().

The parse_time() function now has two new overloads that introduce a lenient argument. For more information, see parse_time().

Spotfire® Streaming has added support of Windows Server 2022 for third-party applications.

If you do not configure any modules to an extension point, StreamBase generates a warning message to remind you to utilize the StreamBase’s extensibility by configuring the necessary modules

Debian Linux is now a supported operating system for deployment.

Added an Export to CSV... button to the Decision Table editor which exports the current Decision Table to a CSV file.

By default, the text encoding for the code and Studio is now UTF-8 instead of US-ASCII. As a result, a large number of character sets are now available to be utilized. Also, new lossless methods for the API's bytesToString and stringToBytes methods are available.

LDAP read adapter now includes all the results into a single output tuple. This eliminates the need to perform aggregation outside of the adapter in the application to wait for all LDAP query results. For more information, see LDAP Read Adapter.

For this release, Spotfire Data Streams uses Eclipse 4.28 (2023-06) instead of 4.21 (2021-09) as in the previous version.

A new perspective was added to Studio to allow visual analysis of StreamBase trace files. For more information, see SB Trace Debugger Perspective.

You can now configure semantic interpretations in the lvconf editor in Studio instead of editing the lvconf XML directly like before. For more information, see Data Table.

HTTP Client Adapter now supports OAuth2 Client Credentials Authentication.

You can now can have multiple lines in the Manual Input View's text fields instead of single line of text.

To insert a newline into a manual input field, press the Shift + Enter key combination. This inserts a newline without sending a tuple. Pressing Enter by itself sends a tuple as before.

A new Empty EventFlow parent packages filter is added to the Project Explorer, which hides empty parent packages (packages that do not have anything in them besides other packages). Users can clear this filter to show empty parent packages.

The TIBCO Accelerator Discovery wizard is a new dialog similar to the StreamBase Component Exchange dialog, but pre-filtered to only show TIBCO Accelerator projects.

The EventFlow palette search bar in Spotfire Streaming 11.1.0 now searches for global operators and adapters. The Adapters, Java Operators palette item can still be used for searching as before.

Spotfire Data Streams adds better Studio support for src/test/eventflow modules. A special folder now shows up in the project explorer where new packages and modules can be created. Unit tests containing modules in this location can be run from Spotfire StreamBase Studio.

You may manage fragment dependencies either by editing the project's POM (pom.xml) as a standard Maven project, or, for a simpler interface that filters and narrows dependencies just to fragment dependencies, then use the new Manage Fragment Dependencies project property dialog. For more information, see Add a Dependency.

The display availabilityzone now provides Primary Nodes and Backup Nodes columns instead of a single Nodes column. This information is useful for dynamic data distribution policies.

From this release, the eFTL adapter can now convert String to Boolean.

The Bidirectional Socket Writer Adapter now supports TCP_NODELAY for better performance.

There is a dialog that you can open to install non-Maven JARs into the local Maven repository instead of invoking Maven on the command line. For more information, see Using External Jars.

For all Java operators and adapters, a hyperlink is added to the General tab to view the JAR file's manifest headers. This can include the adapter version, Maven coordinates, and company name.

From this release, UMDF adapter uses version 2.24.1 for FIX messages and and version 2.14.26 for FAST messages.

The EventFlow pod installation now runs smoothly as the discovery mechanism is now available in member clusters and works cross-namespace.

The Open StreamBase Resource dialog can now be used to search the workspace for Java files in addition to EventFlow files.

Studio now has a StreamBase Secrets Helper dialog to generate a master secret and substitution file for sensitive data encryption. The HOCON configuration editors have an option to encrypt sensitive data values using the default quick-fix key (Ctrl+1).

Spotfire Streaming has added support for binary eventflow dependencies.

A new Decision Table operator property is added to override the Single Row Execution property that was previously only settable in the Decision Table file.

Spotfire Data Streams adds OpenAPI 3.1 to validate OpenAPI schemas. This new feature introduces validation profiles and adds OpenAPI schema extensions. This feature can also be used to support any additional keywords required to represent EventFlow tuple schemas in JSON Schema format.

Spotfire Streaming .NET APIs and native programs now require the Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 C++ runtime environment.

By default, StreamBase's API listener port is any available port. The system picks a random, unused port number between 1025 and 65535. Similarly, LiveView's default API listener port is also set to any available port. But for LiveView, it means it starts looking for an unused port beginning from port 10080 and keep checking one port at a time until it finds an available one.

Spotfire Data Streams now requires Java 17 for development and deployment. If you attempt to deploy Streaming applications with Java 16 or earlier, applications fail to open. Container builds for Streaming applications must include JDK 17 instead of Java 11.

On all supported operating systems, the Spotfire Streaming installation kit provides the runtime components of Eclipse Adoptium JDK 17.0.8 (formerly known as AdoptOpenJDK) in a subdirectory of the Streaming installation directory, for a private use to run Streaming program fragments and applications from within StreamBase Studio. As before, Streaming detects and prefers a system-installed JDK, and uses the bundled JDK as a fallback. See further details about the JDK requirements of this release in the JDK entry of the Supported Configurations page.

An epadmin generate completion command is added in Spotfire Streaming 11.1.0. It generates a bash completion script for epadmin commands and parameters. See the command output for usage instructions.

The epadmin now supports shorter global parameter names with single dash (e.g., -sc is a short parameter name for --schema). Check epadmin-globals for more information.

Spotfire Streaming 11.1 is designated as an LTS release.

The LVNodeInfo table now shows which TableGroup a table belongs to.

Previously, any JDBC data sources in a legacy SB7 project's sbd.sbconf file were made into a separate HOCON file for each data source. Now, each data source is added to a single JDBCDataSourceGroup type that permits multiple data sources in a single HOCON file.

Support for CentOS Linux 7 and 8 is dropped as of Streaming 11.1.0. Since Red Hat earlier declared that CentOS Linux has reached end of life, there are no security updates. Also, support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 7 is dropped from this release onwards.

The rpm-bin installer no longer includes a streambase-client installer; its content has been moved to the streambase-devel RPM.

You can now open HTML files in your default external browser because of the changes in Eclipse 4.22. Sample HTML READMEs continues to open in StreamBase Studio when the sample is imported using the Open README when the sample is imported option. The sample READMEs written in Markdown and plain text open in StreamBase Studio as before.

The path of the OIDC Issuer URL is now used to construct URL for the OIDC provider's configuration document. For an OIDC issuer URL of https://example.com/tenant-id the URL downloads the following OIDC provider's configuration document https://example.com/tenant-id/.well-known/openid-configuration.

You can now delete a package in the same way as deleting a java package.

You can now rename the EventFlow packages. When a package is renamed, all references to it in workspace modules are updated as well.

When creating a new project, you can either enter a simple project name (current behavior) or select a Maven template.

You can either select a template from the predefined ones or type in their own with the keys [groupId], [artifactId], and [version] being replaced with their respective Maven parts. With this template, you can create the project name with the maven coordinates entered on the next page. This setting is saved on future wizard runs for quick creation of template projects.

The StreamBase Manager application has been moved to an add-on package,SPOT_str-manager. This is available as .msi installer for Windows, .archive-bin installer for macOS and, .rpm-bin installer for Linux. StreamBase Manager functionality is still available from the SB Manager perspective in StreamBase Studio. This package is not available in Spotfire Data Streams.

Instead of the file.encoding system property, now, Studio and Manager launch explicitly with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Substitution variables no longer require default value when editing in Studio. Any variables that are missing a default value shows a warning. The previous quick-fix to insert a default null value is still available.

Client API no longer uses the existing TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL long values. The Timestamp.Type is used to specify TIMESTAMP or INTERVAL.

Exponentially decaying reservoir metrics now correctly fail registration if the metric has multiple properties. Previous releases allowed the registration, but reported an error when the metric was read.

A new enum/value is added to the setTupleFromJSON function that allows you to choose whether you want it to be strict or loose.

LiveView metadata is now stored with SQLite instead of H2 by default. LiveView metadata automatically migrates from H2 to SQLite at run time. You can also right-click on LiveView H2 database files in Studio and migrate them to SQLite through a context menu.

StreamBase Studio has deprecated the use of Operator Parameters.

The Eclipse Docker plug-in is no longer included in Studio because of the 3rd party library incompatibilities. It is a best practice to use Docker Desktop.

To enable UTF-8 support in Windows, starting from this release, the support for the following versions of Windows operating systems has been deprecated:

Check System Requirements for supported Microsoft Windows Operating System versions.

There is no replacement for the C++ API and the client code must be migrated to one of the other supported language bindings such as Java, .NET, and Python.

The functionality of sbc and sbadmin command line tools have been replaced with epadmin and any use of them must be migrated to epadmin.

macOS is longer supported on new version of TERR. Check Using the TERR Operator (Deprecated) for using existing versions.

The StreamBase Client API for Python 2.7 is now deprecated on all operating systems. It was previously removed on Windows, and now is deprecated on Linux. This deprecation does not affect the LiveView Client Python wheel, the Python Operator, and the Python Instance Operator, which continue to be supported.

Subversion support is deprecated in Studio.

Artifact Distribution Service (ADS) no longer publishes an artifact service record. ADS service discovery records were required for backward compatibility with pre-10.6 Artifact Management Servers (AMS). Upgrade to AMS 10.6 for compatibility with current releases. The ADS now uses the Last Model Request Time property in the node service record to track deployed model state in Streaming nodes.

Currently all FIX-based adapters offer a choice between using QuickFIX/J engine or Spotfire's own High-Performance FIX (HPFIX) engine. Going forward, HPFIX should be used as support for QuickFIX/J will be removed in an upcoming version of the product.

StreamBase Studio has deprecated the discovery settings in Cluster Service Discovery Input Adapter.

AMS is removed in this release and all future release. AMS remains supported in the past releases where it has been delivered for as long as those releases are supported.

The get_conf_param() has been deprecated, which return the value portion of a name-value pair specified with a <param> element in a project's sbconf file.

The alert-table element of the lvconf XML specification that supports author-time alert configuration (also referred to as static alerts), which was previously announced in StreamBase 10.4 as deprecated, is now removed. Instead, use dynamic alert configure.

The HA Heartbeat Adapter has been deprecated in StreamBase Studio.

LiveView metadata is now stored with SQLite instead of H2 by default. Metadata automatically migrates from H2 to SQLite at runtime. You can also right-click LiveView H2 database files in Studio and migrate them to SQLite through a context menu.

Streaming no longer supports Ant-based tasks.

macOS minimum version now updated to Monterey (12) (dropped Big Sur).

Operator statistics are now disabled by default. They were previously enabled. This was done to avoid significant CPU utilization to capture statistics by default. Operator statistics can be re-enabled using engine configuration.

name = "enable-operator-statistics"
type = "com.tibco.ep.streambase.configuration.sbengine"
version = "1.0.0"
configuration = {
 
  StreamBaseEngine = {
    streamBase = {
      engineMonitor = {
        enabled = true
      }
    }
  }
}