- Introduced Hortonworks Management Center (HMC). - HMC is the graphical user interface (GUI) based installer for managing and monitoring end-to-end Hadoop deployments. 
- For more details, see: Using HMC. 
 
- Upgraded multiple components. 
- Added support for Talend Open Studio. - HDP packages Talend Open Studio to provide a graphical interface for Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL). 
- Talend utilizes HDP's HCatalog metadata management capability to import raw data into Hadoop, create and manage schemas on the raw data, and facilitate transformational queries on that data. 
 


