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For up-to-date documentation of release 9.2 of Self Managed Designer Cloud, please visit us at https://help.alteryx.com/SMC/r92/.

   

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The following features have been deprecated or removed from Designer Cloud Enterprise Edition in recent releases.

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StatusDescription
deprecatedFeature or capability is no longer actively supported. It may still work, but future fixes or enhancements are unlikely.
end of lifeFeature or capability has been removed from the product.

Release 9.2

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)Deprecated

Integration with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) clusters has been deprecated.

NOTE: As part of the above deprecation, the following Hortonworks-only integrations are no longer available for the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform:

  • Hive Warehouse Connector
  • High Availability for Hive
  • Zookeeper Quorum

The following Cloudera platforms and versions are still supported for Release 9.2:

  • CDH 6.2, CDH 6.3
  • CDP 7.1

For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

High Availability on AWS using EKSDeprecated

The method for deploying the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform in a highly available environment on AWS using EKS (Kubernetes) clusters has been deprecated.

The existing method of deploying using failover nodes is still supported for AWS. For more information, see Install for High Availability.

Custom Dictionary typesDeprecated

The ability to add custom data types using a dictionary file has been deprecated. Replacement options:

Release 9.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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Databricks 8.3Deprecated

Databricks no longer supports this version. Options:

  • Downgrade to Databricks 7.3 LTS
  • Upgrade to Databricks 10.x.

NOTE: If you have enabled user mode for ADLS Gen2, you must upgrade to Databricks 10.x. See ADLS Gen2 Access.

Databricks maintains an 18-month support window. For more information, see https://docs.databricks.com/release-notes/runtime/releases.html.

Databricks 6.x, except for Databricks 6.4 Extended SupportDeprecatedFor Databricks 6.x, only Databricks 6.4 Extended Support is still supported. You should upgrade. For more information, see Product Support Matrix.
Databricks 5.5 LTSDeprecatedDatabricks 5.5 LTS is deprecated. Please upgrade to a supported version. For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

Release 8.11

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Enable Onboarding TourEOLThis feature is removed from the product.

Release 8.7

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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PostgreSQL 9.6deprecated

Please upgrade.

NOTE: If you are installing on Azure, you must upgrade to PostgreSQL 11. All other deployments must upgrade to PostgreSQL 12.

For more information, see Install Databases.

HDP 3.0deprecated

Please upgrade to using HDP 3.1.

NOTE: In a future release, support for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) will be deprecated. Please migrate to using a different supported running environment. For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

HDInsightdeprecatedSupport for HDInsight 3.5 and 3.6 has been deprecated. HDInsight is no longer supported. Please migrate to using a supported version of Azure Databricks. See Product Support Matrix.

Release 8.2

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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CDH 5.16deprecatedPlease upgrade to the latest supported version of CDH. See Product Support Matrix.
Alationend of lifeThis catalog integration is removed from the product.
Waterlineend of lifeThis catalog integration is removed from the product.
Cloudera Navigatorend of lifeThis integration is removed from the product.

Release 8.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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PostgreSQL 9.6deprecated (partial)

Support for PostgreSQL 9.6 is deprecated for customer-managed Hadoop-based deployments and AWS deployments. PostgreSQL 9.6 is supported only for Azure deployments. When Azure supports PostgreSQL 12 or later, support for PostgreSQL 9.6 will be deprecated in the subsequent release of Designer Cloud Enterprise Edition.

CDH 6.1deprecatedPlease upgrade to the latest supported version of CDH. See Product Support Matrix.
HDP 2.6deprecatedPlease upgrade to the latest supported version of HDP. See Product Support Matrix.
Alation integrationdeprecatedThis catalog integration is no longer supported.
Waterline integrationdeprecatedThis catalog integration is no longer supported.
Navigator integrationdeprecatedThis integration is no longer supported.

Release 7.9

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Manage Users areadeprecatedAll of the functions of the Manage Users area of the Admin Settings page have been moved to the Workspace Users page. See Users Page.

Release 7.8

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
TDE file formatEOL

Tableau has reached End of Life for the TDE file format.

This file format is no longer supported in the product. All uses of this format have been automatically migrated to use HYPER, which is the replacement format now supported by Tableau.

Release 7.7

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
classic Flow ViewEOLThe original (classic) version of Flow View is no longer available in the product. For more information on the new version, see Flow View Page.
Parameter History PaneldeprecatedAs a part of collaborative suggestions enhancement, the support for Parameter History panel is deprecated from the software. For more information on collaborative suggestions feature, see Overview of Predictive Transformation.

Release 7.6

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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Wrangler Enterprise desktop application

end of life

To access the Designer Cloud application, please use one of the supported browser versions instead. For more information, see Browser Requirements.

CentOS/RHEL 7.1 and 7.2deprecatedPlease upgrade to a supported distribution of either operating system. For more information, see System Requirements.
Maintenance Release Updater scriptdeprecated

This script enabled installation of maintenance updates to the Alteryx deployment. Maintenance updates include:

  • Release X.Y.1 to Release X.Y.2 or later
  • Hot Fixes

Release 7.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

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Wrangler Enterprise desktop application

deprecated

The Wrangler Enterprise desktop application is no longer built and deployed with the software.

NOTE: You should switch to using a supported browser version at this time. In a future release, the Wrangler Enterprise desktop application will no longer work. For information on supported browser versions, see Browser Requirements.

The Release 6.8 version of the Wrangler Enterprise desktop application is available on request. For more information, please contact Alteryx Support.

API reference documentation with product docsend of life

The API reference documentation is no longer published with the product documentation.

API reference documentation can now be accessed directly from the product. For more information, see API Reference.

CentOS/RHEL 6.xend of life

Please upgrade to a supported version of CentOS/RHEL.

Azure Databricks 5.3 - 5.4end of life

Please upgrade to Azure Databricks 5.5 LTS or Azure Databricks 6.x.

NOTE: Some versions of Azure Databricks 6.x have already reached End of Life. Customers should upgrade to a version of Azure Databricks that is supported by the vendor. These EOL versions are likely to be deprecated from supported by the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform in a subsequent release. For more information on supported versions, see https://docs.databricks.com/release-notes/runtime/releases.html#supported-databricks-runtime-releases-and-support-schedule.

Release 7.0

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)deprecated

Please upgrade the Alteryx node to use Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).

Spark 2.2.xdeprecated

Please upgrade to Spark 2.3 or Spark 2.4, and upgrade your cluster distribution version if necessary. See Configure for Spark.

CDH 6.0deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 6.3.
EMR 5.8 - EMR 5.12deprecated

Please upgrade to a supported version of EMR. See Product Support Matrix.

Release 6.10

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
v3 APIsend of life

The v3 version of the APIs is no longer available. You must migrate to using the v4 APIs.

Send a Copy featureend of lifeThe Send a Copy feature is no longer available in the product. As a workaround, you can make a copy of the flow and share it. See Flow View Page.

Release 6.8.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Cloudera 6.0deprecated

Please upgrade to Cloudera 6.3. See Supported Deployment Scenarios for Cloudera.

Release 6.8

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Spark 2.1.xdeprecated

Please upgrade to a supported version of Spark. See Configure for Spark.

EMR 5.6 - EMR 5.7deprecatedPlease upgrade to EMR 5.8 or later, depending on the version of Spark you are using. See Configure for Spark.


Release 6.4

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
v3 APIsdeprecated

The v3 version of the APIs is no longer supported. Please migrate to using the v4 APIs.

PNaCldeprecated

The PNaCl browser client extensions has been deprecated. Please verify that all users of Designer Cloud Enterprise Edition are using a supported version of Google Chrome, in which the WebAssembly client extension is automatically enabled.

Command Line Interfaceend of life

The CLI is no longer available. Please migrate to using the v4 APIs.

Java 7deprecated

Support for Java 7 in the platform has been deprecated. Please upgrade the Alteryx node and any connected cluster to use Java 8.

Chat with usend of life

The Chat with Us feature has been removed from the product. The underlying integration did not work.

If you need to reach out, please Alteryx Support.

Cloudera 5.14.x and 5.15.xdeprecatedPlease upgrade to Cloudera 6.2.x.
HDP 2.5.xdeprecatedPlease upgrade to HDP 3.1.x.

Release 6.0.2

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

None.

Release 6.0.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

Release 6.0

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
CDH 5.13deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 6.0.
CDH 5.12deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 6.0.


Release 5.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Diagnostics PageEOLThe diagnostics server and related Diagnostics Page have been removed from the product. This feature has been superseded by Tricheck, which is available to administrators through the application.
PostgreSQL 9.3deprecated

PostgreSQL 9.3 is scheduled for deprecation in September 2018.

Please upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.6, which is the only supported version for this release.

CDH 5.12deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 5.15.
wasb: storage protocoldeprecatedAll interactions with WASB now occur over wasbs: secure storage protocol.

Release 5.0

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
aggregateend of lifeThe aggregate transform has been removed from the platform. Its functionality has been replaced by configuration in the pivot transform. See Pivot Transform.
CDH 5.11deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 5.14.
EMR 5.7deprecatedIf you are integrating with an EMR cluster, you must upgrade to an EMR 5.11 cluster.

Release 4.2.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
CDH 5.10deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 5.13.


Release 4.2

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
wrangled datasetend of life

Wrangled datasets are no longer available in the platform.

Instead, you create the actions that applied to wrangled datasets from recipes or two new objects: references and outputs. For more information, see Changes to the Object Model.

/docs URLend of life

This URL from the platform is no longer available.

s3n protoclend of lifeTo connect to S3 sources, use of s3n is no longer supported in the platform. You must use s3a. See S3 Access.

Release 4.1.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
CDH 5.9deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.12.

Single-file CLI publishing optiondeprecatedSupport for publishing to a single file as part of a CLI run_job action has been deprecated. Please use the external file method of specifying publishing targets.


Release 4.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
MapRdeprecated

Support for integration with MapR Hadoop clusters has been deprecated.

Please install a supported version of Cloudera or Hortonworks. See Install Reference.

CentOS 6.2.x
CentOS 6.3.x
deprecatedPlease upgrade to the latest CentOS 6.x release.
CDH 5.8deprecatedPlease upgrade to CDH 5.11.
HDP 2.4deprecatedPlease upgrade to HDP 2.6.
Pig running environmentend of life

The Hadoop Pig running environment is no longer available.

For running jobs on Hadoop, you must use the Spark running environment, which requires no additional configuration. See Configure Spark Running Environment.

Python UDFsend of life

You cannot use Python UDFs in the platform, due to the removal of the Hadoop Pig running environment.

All UDFs must be migrated to or authored in Java. See User-Defined Functions.

Transform Editorend of life

The Transform Editor for entering raw text Wrangle steps has been removed. Please use the Transform Builder for creating transformation steps.

Standardize pageend of lifeFeature flag-only feature will be replaced by a better standardization capability in a future release.
standardize transformend of lifeFeature flag-only feature will be replaced by a better standardization capability in a future release.

Release 4.0.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
MapRdeprecated

Support for integration with MapR Hadoop clusters has been deprecated.

Please install a supported version of Cloudera or Hortonworks.

CDH 5.7deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.10.

Release 4.0

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
MapRdeprecated

Support for integration with MapR Hadoop clusters has been deprecated.

Please install a supported version of Cloudera or Hortonworks.

Hadoop Pig running environmentdeprecated

This running environment has been superseded by the Scala-based running environment, which utilizes Spark's in-memory features for faster processing. The Scala Spark version is the default running environment for Hadoop environments. See Running Environment Options.

Python UDFdeprecatedPython UDFs are only supported with Hadoop Pig running environment.
Javascript running environment and profilerend of life

The original Javascript running environment and profiling engine have been superseded by the Photon running environment, which was introduced in Release 3.2.

The Photon running environment is enabled by default for front-end processing. See Running Environment Options.

Hadoop Pig profilerend of lifeThis profiling engine has been superseded by the Scala-based Spark profiler, which utilizes Spark's in-memory features for faster processing. The Scala version of Spark Profiler is the default profiling engine for Hadoop environments. See Profiling Options.
Python-based Spark profilerend of life

In Release 2.7, a Python-based Spark profiler was released. This version of the Spark profiler required that Spark had to be installed on each node of the cluster, reducing efficiency.

This profiling engine has been superseded by the Scala-based Spark profiler, which utilizes Spark's in-memory features for faster processing. The Scala version of Spark Profiler is the default profiling engine for Hadoop environments. See Profiling Options.

/docs URLdeprecated

This URL from the platform points to an in-app page of documentation. All content in this location has been replaced and superseded by product documentation content. 


HDP 2.3.2deprecatedPlease upgrade to HDP 2.4 or 2.5.


Release 3.2.1

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
CDH 5.5/CDH 5.6deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.8.

Release 3.2

Release End of Support date:  https://www.trifacta.com/supportpolicy/

ItemStatusDescription
Aggregate Toolend of lifeThe separate page for building aggregations has been replaced by selecting your aggregation parameters through the Transform Builder. See Transform Builder.
Add Sample Rows to Transformerend of lifeIn the Job Results page, it was possible to add the displayed sample rows back to the Transformer page as a new sample. With the new object model, this is no longer possible.
MapReduce settingsend of lifeRemoved from Admin Settings page, as they are no longer applicable. Support for MapReduce 1 was previously deprecated. See Admin Settings Page.
multisplit transformend of lifeThis transform has been replaced by a more flexible version of the split transform. See Split Transform.
Batch Server serviceend of lifeInternal platform service has been replaced by Batch Job Runner service.
Monitor serviceend of lifeInternal platform service has been replaced by Batch Job Runner service.
Zookeeperend of life

The Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform no longer utilizes the Zookeeper service for managing Hadoop Pig jobs. It has been replaced by Batch Job Runner service.

NOTE: You may notice references to Zookeeper in configuration blocks or in the interface. These references will be removed in a future release.

Support for CDH 5.3/5.4deprecatedPlease upgrade to HDP 5.8.

Release 3.1.2

None.

Release 3.1.1

ItemDescription
Support for HDP 2.2Please upgrade to HDP 2.3 or HDP 2.4.

Release 3.1

ItemDescription
Support for HDP 2.1.1Please upgrade to HDP 2.3.
Support for CDH 5.2Please upgrade to CDH 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6.
Support for MapR 4.1Please upgrade to MapR 5.1.

Replacements:

NOTE: These features may be deprecated in the future in favor of their replacements.


  • New if function is designed to replace the ternary construct.
  • New Spark Profiler on Scala is the default Spark profiler. 
    • The old version, which required Spark, is still available for specific scenarios; we recommend using the new Spark Profiler on Scala.
    • For more information, see Overview of Visual Profiling

Release 3.0

None.

Release 2.7

ItemDescription
multiextract transformTransform was removed in favor of new multisplit transform.
Support for MapReduce 1Map Reduce 1 has been superseded by Map Reduce 2, also known as YARN.
WebHCat for publishingFor publishing to HCatalog, WebHCat has been replaced by publication through Hive.

For more information, please see Alteryx Support.


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