Apache Toree (Scala/Spark Kernel) 0.2.0-incubating released

[Luciano Resende]

Apache Toree is a (Scala/Spark) kernel for the Jupyter Notebook platform providing interactive and remote access to Apache Spark.

The Apache Toree community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Toree 0.2.0-incubating which provides various bug fixes and the following enhancements.

   * Support Apache Spark 2.x codebase including Spark 2.2.2

   * Enable Toree to run in Yarn cluster mode

   * Create spark context lazily to avoid long startup times for the kernel

   * Properly cleanup of temporary files/directories upon kernel shutdown

   * %AddJAR now supports HDFS file format

   * %AddDEP now defaults to default configuration

   * Cell Interrupt now cancel running Spark jobs and works in background processes

   * Support configurable alternative interrupt signal via --alternate-sigint command line

   * Interpreters now have the ability to send results other than text/plain

For more information about Apache Toree and go download the latest release go to:

   https://toree.incubator.apache.org/

For more information on how to use Apache Toree please visit our documentation page:

   https://toree.incubator.apache.org/docs/current/user/quick-start/

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Luciano Resende
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