KNIME Documentation

KNIME Business Hub 1.6 Release Notes ​

KNIME Business Hub 1.6.0 ​

(released September 22, 2023)

Important installation notes ​

Business Hub 1.6.0 comes with Kubernetes 1.25 for the embedded clusters.

We recommend updating by running the Kubernetes installer command:

curl -sSL https://kurl.sh/knime-hub | sudo bash

Run the command only when updating from KNIME Business Hub version 1.5.2 or higher, or after you updated to version 1.6.0.

All pods will restart during the update, some downtime is expected. Creating a backup before upgrading is recommended.

New features ​

Save jobs to spaces ​

  • Jobs on KNIME Business Hub can now be saved any space where the user has permissions. Great feature to utilize for fixing a faulty job and saving the results for the future.
  • Documentation: KNIME Business Hub User Guide

Shared execution contexts ​

  • Create shared execution contexts, that allow sharing execution resources between multiple teams. Shared execution contexts are setup and maintained by the Hub admin and utilized on Team level.
  • Documentation: KNIME Business Hub Admin Guide

Execution context redesign ​

  • Improved usability of execution resource management based on customer feedback. Current job list is now available on execution context and executor level.

Auto start-stop of execution contexts ​

  • Save money on infrastructure costs by only starting up your execution resources when they are actually used, and by shutting them down afterwards.
  • Auto start-stop can be enabled for each execution context separately.

Download job logs ​

  • Downloading job logs is now available from the Hub user interface.
  • To use this feature an executor based on KNIME Analytics Platform version > 5.1 is necessary.
  • Documentation: KNIME Business Hub User Guide

Improvements ​

Triggers listening to version creation ​

Deprecated nodes are not part of search results ​

Infrastructure updates ​

Embedded clusters updated ​

  • New Kubernetes version for embedded clusters is 1.25

Kubernetes node affinity ​

Important bug fixes ​

  • Fixed a bug where two trigger deployments triggered at the same time could produce inconsistent results
  • Fixed faulty URLs on the API documentation
  • Fixed KNIME AP mount point registration https problem
  • Fixed an issue where global proxy settings could break executor functionality
  • Fixed an issue where Hub could get into a crash loop with many APs connected and large files being uploaded / downloaded at the same time