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Command Line Interface Releases
The following table lists the releases and changes in CLI versions. The Amazon EMR CLI uses the release date as its version number.
| Release Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-03-19 | Improved support for launching clusters on third-party applications with a new --supported-product parameter that accepts custom user arguments. |
| 2012-12-17 | Adds support for IAM roles. |
| 2012-09-18 | Adds support for setting the visibility of clusters for IAM users with the --visible-to-all-users and --set-visible-to-all-users flags. |
| 2012-08-22 | Improved SSL certificate verification. |
| 2012-07-30 | Adds support for Hadoop 1.0.3. |
| 2012-07-09 | Adds support for specifying the major and minor AMI version and automatically getting the AMI that matches those specifications and contains the latest patches. |
| 2012-06-12 | Adds support for HBase and MapR. |
| 2012-04-09 | Adds support for Pig 0.9.1, Pig versioning, and Hive 0.7.1.4. |
| 2012-03-13 | Adds support for Hive 0.7.1.3. |
| 2012-02-28 | Adds support for Hive 0.7.1.2. |
| 2011-12-08 | Adds support for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) versioning, Hadoop 0.20.205, Hive 0.7.1, and Pig 0.9.1. The default AMI version is the latest AMI version available. |
| 2011-11-30 | Fixes support for Amazon Elastic IP addresses. |
| 2011-08-08 | Adds support for running a cluster on Spot Instances. |
| 2011-01-24 | Fixes bugs in the --json command processing and the list option. |
| 2011-12-08 | Adds support for Hive 0.7. |
| 2011-11-11 | Fixes issues in the processing of pig and hive arguments and the --main-class argument to the custom jar step. |
| 2011-10-19 | Adds support for resizing running clusters. Substantially reworked processing arguments to be more consistent and unit testable. |
| 2011-09-16 | Adds support for fetching files from Amazon EMR. |
| 2011-06-02 | Adds support for Hadoop 0.20, Hive 0.5 and Pig 0.6. |
| 2011-04-07 | Adds support for bootstrap actions. |
To display the version of the Amazon EMR CLI currently installed
In the directory where you installed the Amazon EMR CLI, run the following commands from the command line:
Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X users:
./elastic-mapreduce --version
Windows users:
ruby elastic-mapreduce --version
If the CLI is correctly installed and the credentials properly configured, the CLI should display its version number represented as a date. The output should look similar to the following:
Version 2012-12-17
