HPCC : 9.8 Platform Release Announcement

We're pleased to announce the next generation of the HPCC Systems® Platform. This exciting new release, version 9.8.0, takes everything you loved about the platform and elevates it to a new level.

Highlights

• New Regex Libraries Beginning with version 9.8, the HPCC Systems platform uses a new third-party library to support regular expression operations in the platform. PCRE2 will replace both Boost::regex and ICU in regular expression pattern parsing, compilation, and substring replacement. This change brings more consistency to how regex works within ECL, better support for UTF-8 data and overall better performance. For more details, see: Changes to Regex Support in HPCC Systems 9.8.0

• LDAP Default File Scope Permission Caching Fix This change can affect LDAP-enabled systems. For details, see: Change in LDAP Support

• Interactive ECL To augment the learning experience, many of the ECL code examples on the ECL Language Reference web pages are now interactive. You can submit example code to a publicly available HPCC Systems® platform. When submitted, it opens the ECL Watch Playground in a new tab and allows you to execute the ECL on that cluster. You can also modify the code before submitting and see the results of the modified code.

  ⚠️ Take care not to submit code containing proprietary algorithms or Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

• Syntax Check in the ECL Watch Playground The ECL Watch Playground now has a Syntax button which allows you to check syntax before submitting the code.

  • If the code passes the check, a green checkmark is displayed.
  • If it fails, the details of any errors are displayed.

• Improved Performance Numerous "under the covers" improvements to increase performance.

• Tighter Security Many improvements made in the area of security.

Whether you're a seasoned user or just starting out, version 9.8.0 empowers you to achieve more than ever before.

See the comprehensive list of changes here: Release Notes