End of Life and Deprecated Features

Tripache

EOL

The proprietary web server, Tripache, is no longer available in the software distribution. This web server was used by a very small number of customers. nginx remains the default web server.

Data Direct connectivity drivers

deprecated

Data Direct drivers are no longer provided with the installation package. Previous versions of the drivers may work, but they are not supported.

Unmodified connections from prior installations should continue to work.

Ubuntu 16.04

deprecated

Ubuntu 16.04 is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported version. For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

Python SDK

deprecated

This feature and its related API endpoint are no longer supported.

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)

Deprecated

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

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

For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

High Availability on AWS using EKS

Deprecated

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 types

Deprecated

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

Databricks 8.3

Deprecated

Databricks no longer supports this version. Options:

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 Support

Deprecated

For Databricks 6.x, only Databricks 6.4 Extended Support is still supported. You should upgrade. For more information, seeProduct Support Matrix.

Databricks 5.5 LTS

Deprecated

Databricks 5.5 LTS is deprecated. Please upgrade to a supported version. For more information, see Product Support Matrix.

Enable Onboarding Tour

EOL

This feature is removed from the product.

PostgreSQL 9.6

deprecated

Please upgrade.

For more information, see Install Databases.

HDP 3.0

deprecated

Please upgrade to using HDP 3.1.

HDInsight

deprecated

Support 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.

CDH 5.16

deprecated

Please upgrade to the latest supported version of CDH. SeeProduct Support Matrix.

Alation

end of life

This catalog integration is removed from the product.

Waterline

end of life

This catalog integration is removed from the product.

Cloudera Navigator

end of life

This integration is removed from the product.

PostgreSQL 9.6

deprecated (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 ofDesigner Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition.

CDH 6.1

deprecated

Please upgrade to the latest supported version of CDH. See Product Support Matrix.

HDP 2.6

deprecated

Please upgrade to the latest supported version of HDP. SeeProduct Support Matrix.

Alation integration

deprecated

This catalog integration is no longer supported.

Waterline integration

deprecated

This catalog integration is no longer supported.

Navigator integration

deprecated

This integration is no longer supported.

Manage Users area

deprecated

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

TDE file format

EOL

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.

classic Flow View

EOL

The 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 Panel

deprecated

As 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.

Wrangler Enterprise desktop application

end of life

To access the Trifacta Application, please use one of the supported browser versions instead. For more information, see Browser Requirements.

CentOS/RHEL 7.1 and 7.2

deprecated

Please upgrade to a supported distribution of either operating system. For more information, see System Requirements.

Maintenance Release Updater script

deprecated

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

Wrangler Enterprise desktop application

deprecated

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

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 docs

end 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.x

end of life

Please upgrade to a supported version of CentOS/RHEL.

Azure Databricks 5.3 - 5.4

end of life

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

Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)

deprecated

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

Spark 2.2.x

deprecated

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

CDH 6.0

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 6.3.

EMR 5.8 - EMR 5.12

deprecated

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

v3 APIs

end of life

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

Send a Copy feature

end of life

The 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.

Cloudera 6.0

deprecated

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

Spark 2.1.x

deprecated

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

EMR 5.6 - EMR 5.7

deprecated

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

v3 APIs

deprecated

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

PNaCl

deprecated

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

Command Line Interface

end of life

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

Java 7

deprecated

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

Chat with us

end 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.x

deprecated

Please upgrade to Cloudera 6.2.x.

HDP 2.5.x

deprecated

Please upgrade to HDP 3.1.x.

CDH 5.13

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 6.0.

CDH 5.12

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 6.0.

Diagnostics Page

EOL

The 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 9.3

deprecated

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 5.12

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.15.

wasb: storage protocol

deprecated

All interactions with WASB now occur over wasbs: secure storage protocol.

aggregate

end of life

The aggregate transform has been removed from the platform. Its functionality has been replaced by configuration in the pivot transform. See Pivot Transform.

CDH 5.11

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.14.

EMR 5.7

deprecated

If you are integrating with an EMR cluster, you must upgrade to an EMR 5.11 cluster.

CDH 5.10

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.13.

wrangled dataset

end 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 URL

end of life

This URL from the platform is no longer available.

s3n protocl

end of life

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

CDH 5.9

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.12.

Single-file CLI publishing option

deprecated

Support 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.

MapR

deprecated

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

deprecated

Please upgrade to the latest CentOS 6.x release.

CDH 5.8

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.11.

HDP 2.4

deprecated

Please upgrade to HDP 2.6.

Pig running environment

end 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 UDFs

end 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 Editor

end of life

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

Standardize page

end of life

Feature flag-only feature will be replaced by a better standardization capability in a future release.

standardize transform

end of life

Feature flag-only feature will be replaced by a better standardization capability in a future release.

MapR

deprecated

Support for integration with MapR Hadoop clusters has been deprecated.

Please install a supported version of Cloudera or Hortonworks.

CDH 5.7

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.10.

MapR

deprecated

Support for integration with MapR Hadoop clusters has been deprecated.

Please install a supported version of Cloudera or Hortonworks.

Hadoop Pig running environment

deprecated

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 UDF

deprecated

Python UDFs are only supported with Hadoop Pig running environment.

Javascript running environment and profiler

end 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 profiler

end of life

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.

Python-based Spark profiler

end 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 URL

deprecated

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 2.3.2

deprecated

Please upgrade to HDP 2.4 or 2.5.

CDH 5.5/CDH 5.6

deprecated

Please upgrade to CDH 5.8.

Aggregate Tool

end of life

The separate page for building aggregations has been replaced by selecting your aggregation parameters through the Transform Builder. See Transform Builder.

Add Sample Rows to Transformer

end of life

In 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 settings

end of life

Removed from Admin Settings page, as they are no longer applicable. Support for MapReduce 1 was previously deprecated. See Admin Settings Page.

multisplit transform

end of life

This transform has been replaced by a more flexible version of the split transform. See Split Transform.

Batch Server service

end of life

Internal platform service has been replaced by Batch Job Runner service.

Monitor service

end of life

Internal platform service has been replaced by Batch Job Runner service.

Zookeeper

end 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.

Support for CDH 5.3/5.4

deprecated

Please upgrade to HDP 5.8.

Support for HDP 2.2

Please upgrade to HDP 2.3 or HDP 2.4.

Support for HDP 2.1.1

Please upgrade to HDP 2.3.

Support for CDH 5.2

Please upgrade to CDH 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6.

Support for MapR 4.1

Please upgrade to MapR 5.1.

multiextract transform

Transform was removed in favor of new multisplit transform.

Support for MapReduce 1

Map Reduce 1 has been superseded by Map Reduce 2, also known as YARN.

WebHCat for publishing

For publishing to HCatalog, WebHCat has been replaced by publication through Hive.