Acceldata Pulse On-Prem 2.0 has been released with new features including Hydra for secure access to cluster nodes and Alerts enhancements such as new notification channels, predefined alerts, and a new Kafka alert category. Other improvements include Kafka capacity planning, Impala resource pool properties, Pulse CLI additions, and new runbooks for HDFS balance and DNS lookup checks. Additionally, error logs retention has been extended, and the Nodes page now supports sorting by host in its heat map chart.