Today we are releasing Snowplow version 0.6.3 – another clean-up release following on from the 0.6.2 release. This release bumps the JavaScript Tracker to version 0.8.2, and the Hive-data-format HiveQL file to version 0.5.2.
Many thanks to the community members who contributed bug fixes to this release: Mike Moulton @ meltmedia, Simon Andersson @ Qwaya and Michael Tibben @ 99designs.
We’ll take a look at both fixes below:
JavaScript tracker fixes
This release fixes the issues in the JavaScript tracker raised in issue 103.
These issues stemmed from the splitting of the JavaScript into multiple files in Snowplow version 0.6.1 (JavaScript tracker version 0.8.0). We do not believe these bugs affected Snowplow data collection, but they are well worth fixing.
Many thanks to Michael Tibben and Simon Andersson for their help in squashing these bugs!
With these fixes we have bumped the JavaScript Tracker to version 0.8.2; the updated minified tracker is available as always here:
http(s)://d1fc8wv8zag5ca.cloudfront.net/0.8.2/sp.js HiveQL script fix
This release also fixes a bug (issue 112) in the HiveQL file used to generate the Hive-format Snowplow event files.
This bug prevented the ETL from running if you were using EmrEtlRunner to generate Hive-format Snowplow event files – in other words if you had set:
:storage_format: non-hive in your EmrEtlRunner’s config.yml file.
Many thanks to Mike Moulton for spotting and fixing this one!
With this fix we have bumped the Hive-format HiveQL file to version 0.5.2. To start using the new file, all you need to do is update your EmrEtlRunner’s config.yml file by changing:
:hive_hiveql_version: 0.5.1 to:
:hive_hiveql_version: 0.5.2 Getting help
If you have any problems with Snowplow version 0.6.3, please raise an issue or get in touch with us via the usual channels.
