Release notes for v2.33.17

Highlights

• Core:
  
  • Password change & reset
• API:
• graph-app-kit: More examples and usage modes
• Infrastructure:
  • RAPIDS 0.16 and surrounding upgrades 
  • Improved autohealing
  • Smaller containers
  • Internal upgrades
  • Marketplace VMs and manual bootstrap scripts: native docker diff
• Administration:
  • migrate-local-db.sh: Add same-node migrations (requiring DB-only)
  • test-gpu.sh: Automatically test host OS GPU setup
• Documentation: 
  • GPU Testing: Updated
• Fixes & Tweaks!
  • Uploads + general stability: List/Struct types no longer silently crash workers
  • Layout settings: Fix regression in 2.32.4 where interactive layout settings were not triggering
  • JSON uploads: Handle parameters orient and dtype
  • GraphistryJS: Rebuilt `@graphistry/client-api` for missing Rx imports

Graphistry Versions

Server	2.33.NEXT
JS React+Vanilla	3.7.1 -> 3.7.6
Python PyGraphistry client	0.14.0

Third-Party Versions

BlazingSQL	0.15 -> 0.16
Caddy	1.0.3
CUDA (In-Docker)	10.1.2
Django	3.0
Docker (CE)	19.03.2
Docker Compose	1.24.1
Elasticsearch node driver	14.2.2
Gremlinpython	3.4.8
Jupyter	1.0.0
Neo4j-python-driver	4.1.0
NodeJS	14.11 -> 14.14
Pandas	1.1.2
Postgres	12.3
Python	3.7.7
Neo4j node driver	4.1.1
Notebook	6.1.1
RAPIDS	0.15.1 -> 0.16
Arrow	0.17.1
Splunk node SDK	1.9.0
Tornado	5.1.1

Summary

New Features    

• Core:
  
  • Password change & reset
• graph-app-kit:
  • Additional usage mode examples - notebook integration, public/private dashboards, and more
  • AWS Neptune use via Apache TinkerPop/Gremlin API
• Infrastructure:
  • RAPIDS 0.16 ecosystem

Docs

• GPU Testing: Testing commands and their meaning have been updated to reflect current container names

Fixes & Tweaks 

• Uploads + general stability: List/Struct type parsing introduced in 2.32.4 (as part of RAPIDS 0.15) had bugs causing session corruptions that would surface as failures in subsequent calls.
• Layout settings: Fix regression in 2.32.4 where interactive layout settings were not triggering
• JSON uploads: Optional parameters `orient` and `dtype` were being ignored; they are now respected
• GraphistryJS: Rebuilt `@graphistry/client-api` for missing Rx imports. `@graphistry/client-api-react` does not appear to be impacted.

Infrastructure

• RAPIDS 0.16: Including updates to pandas, pyarrow, and CUDA 10.1.2, both in the containers and the cloud base images
• Improved autohealing: GPU containers streamgl-gpu and forge-etl-python were getting stuck in unhealthy states but not restarting; the new autoheal policy should now restart them
• Smaller containers: The GPU containers and node JS containers have been slimmed down 14%, making deployment faster and easier. Individually, the v2.33 containers should be closer to v2.28 levels, as the size steadily increased in 2.29-2.32 as part of ecosystem growth.
• Internal upgrades: We updated many of our JavaScript libraries for across-the-board performance and security improvements
• Marketplace VMs and manual bootstrap scripts: Docker installation sets some settings that, by default, were not allowing use of the native docker diffs, which was likely slowing down some scenarios like initial system start, and just-in-time warmup of long-lived processes

Administration

• migrate-local-db.sh: Script for aiding same-node upgrades. Almost all same-node migrations require only linking the `data/` folder and copying in the old `postgres` container data.  This new script takes care of the latter. See script header for invocation. Note that it keeps the old instance running during the migration: The administrator makes the call of when to take down the old version (freeing the public port) and turning on the new one.
• test-gpu.sh: Test GPU and Docker setup requirements for running Graphistry. Progressively  checks each layer, exiting on the first detected misconfiguration.
  • By default, uses Graphistry container for RAPIDS testing. To try another, override
    RAPIDS_CONTAINER and GRAPHISTRY_VERSION, e.g., `sudo RAPIDS_CONTAINER=graphistry/graphistry-blazing GRAPHISTRY_VERSION=v2.33.0 ./test-gpu.sh'

Migration

No breaking changes; upgrade as usual

• We recommend this upgrade for most users due to the layout settings fix for recent version users, and overall new features and fixes for earlier version users