- Added support for RHEL v6.x and CentOS v6.x for 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. 
 
- Improved configuration options for HMC. 
- Added support for additional HBase configuration parameters. 
- Improved validation tests for invalid parameter values for configuring the services. 
- Fixed LZO library unavailability during runtime. 
- Improved support for testing client side validation errors. 
- Fixed the log generation issue caused due to undefined variables. 
- Fixed Templeton configuration parameters. 
- 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. 
 


