What's New in RapidMiner Server 9.5.0?

Released: November 5th, 2019

The following describes the enhancements and bug fixes in RapidMiner Server 9.5.0:

Enhancements

Provide an instant execution unit (Persistent Job Container) to execute jobs without additional boot-up delay
- Add jobagent.container.listenPortRangeStart to define the starting port of spawned Job Containers
- Add jobagent.container.listenAddress to define the listen address for all spawned Job Containers
- Job Agent will gracefully shutdown by default and wait for each Job Container. Optional timeout can be defined via the property jobagent.shutdown.timeout in ms
- Add the ability to automatically schedule restarts for all Persistent Job Containers
  - Add jobagent.restart.policy to define the selected policy
  - Add jobagent.restart.cronExpression to define a cron expression for restart scheduling
  - Add jobagent.restart.maxJobs to define a maximum amount of executed jobs per Job Container before a restart is scheduled
  - Add jobagent.restart.timeout to set a maximum wait time for jobs which are still running on Job Containers (graceful restart) before restarting them forcibly
- Add log rotation for all Persistent Job Containers
Provide endpoints to manage system settings via REST API
Schedules can now be edited in the web interface
Submission and schedule API supports now an execution time limit per process, this limit will be displayed on the execution details and scheduler page
For vanilla installations the installer will now configure RapidMiner Server to use system-wide defined JAVA_HOME or java binary from PATH by default
Bundle jasypt to easily encrypt LDAP properties if needed
Increased the HTTP parameter limit for new installations from 512 to 2048 characters
Changed the default JDBC driver class in RapidMiner Server installer for MySQL 8 connector
Updated third party dependencies

Fixed

Job execution duration is now correctly displayed in the Executions and Execution details pages when its value is zero
Fixed the Executions page crashing when the Enter key is pressed within the Submission date filter
Stop job request button now works correctly when the auto page update is enabled in the Executions page
Toggling the filter panel in the Executions page no longer reset the filters