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+title: "Roundup April 2021"
+date: 2021-05-01T08:59:56+02:00
+authors: ["bamaer"]
+categories: ["Roundup", "Apache Hop"]
+preview: "Roundup April 2021"
+draft: false
+---
+
+# Roundup April 2021
+:toc: macro
+:toc-title: Here are some quick links for the restless souls among you:
+:toc-class: none
+:toclevels: 1
+
+As always at the start of another new month, let's have a look at what
happened at Hop over the last month. Here's the recap for April 2021!
+
+toc::[]
+
+
+== 0.70 release
+
+On April, 12th, the Hop community release Apache Hop (Incubating) 0.70. As our
first release with downloadable binaries, 0.70 is another major step forward
for Hop as a maturing Apache project.
+
+In a nutshell, the 0.70 release brought:
+
+* Dark mode
+* File Explorer perspective
+* Kettle/PDI importer
+* Metadata Injection improvements
+* Neo4j integration
+* Over 45 new plugins
+* Project and Environment improvements
+* Translator and translation improvements
+* VFS Drivers for AWS S3, Azure Blog Storage, Google Cloud Storage and Google
Drive
+
+Re-read the xref:../../04/release-0.70/index.adoc[release announcement] or
xref:../../../../download/index.adoc[download] 0.70 to catch up on all the 0.70
goodies.
+
+The Hop team obviously continued to work after the 0.70 release. The current
working branch is now at 0.99, as a first step towards Hop 1.0.
+
+== 3Hx (Hot Hop Hangout) Sessions
+
+The Hop community organized a couple of Hot Hop Hangout Sessions in 2020.
These were a lot of fun, but pretty much guerrilla style, without a clear
schedule and with joyful amount of chaos.
+
+We've picked up where we left of last year and, as Hop matures, so do the 3Hx
sessions. We'll now have a 3Hx session every other week, alternating between
user oriented sessions and technical deep dives.
+
+We've had three 3Hx sessions in April:
+
+*
https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/events/277117234/[3H4
- The Road to Hop 1.0], recording on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhO_DYszu_Y&t=2765s[youtube]
+*
https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/events/277439258/[3H5
- Get Started with Apache Hop], recording on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVb_r4v_Oc&t=19s[youtube]
+*
https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/events/277681256/[3H6
- Big Data Orchestration on Spark, Flink and DataFlow using Apache Beam],
recording will be on youtube soon.
+
+With about 120 members in the
https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/[Meetup
group] and an increasing number of registrations (close to 70 3H6) for the
sessions, we heard the community loud and clear. The 3Hx sessions are here to
stay.
+
+Let us know which topics you'd like to see discussed in a future 3Hx session.
We're very interested in how *you* use Hop. Let us know (chat, Twitter, mailing
list) if you'd like to present your Hop story or use case in an upcoming
session.
+
+Check the full xref:../../../../community/events/index.adoc[3Hx schedule] for
upcoming sessions.
+
+== Documentation, Samples, Integration tests
+
+With Hop 0.70 generally available, we started working towards Hop 1.0. We've
spent a lot of effort in hardening and documentating Hop, and will continue to
do so.
+
+* **Documentation**: almost all aspects of the Hop platform are now
documented. Documentation is an eternal work in progress. Don't hesitate if you
find a bug in the documentation, or if you find undocumented Hop functionality.
+* **Integration Tests**: since the integration tests were introduced earlier
this year, they have proven to be incredibly valuable to iron out bugs and
prevent regressions. We now have over 60 integration tests that run on a daily
basis, expect that number to increase significantly. The integration tests run
on a daily basis, check the
https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Hop/job/Hop-integration-tests/[Jenkins job].
+* **Samples**: in addition to documentation, samples are an invaluable tool to
quickly check how a given transform or design pattern works. A huge thanks to
https://twitter.com/OfficialSauru[Saurabh] who stepped in and provides us with
an almost daily delivery of fresh Hop samples!
+
+== Various
+
+=== Neo4j logo updated
+
+Neo4j announced a new logo and overall look and feel earlier this month. The
new logo has been incorporated in all available Neo4j functionality in Hop.
+
+image:/img/Roundup-2021-05/new-neo4j-logo.png[New Neo4j logo in Hop,
width="75%"]
+
+=== Cleanup
+
+The major api breaking code changes are far behind us, but code cleanup and
optimization is an ongoing process.
+
+* we had a couple of remaining plugins lingering around in the engine code.
These were all isolated and moved to plugins
+* documentation was hosted in a separate repository. With the general
availability of 0.70, we're working towards releasing version specific
documentation with each release. To improve the process of writing, maintaining
and testing documentation, the docs repository has been incorporated in the
default Hop repository. The 'old'
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop-docs[incubator-hop-docs] repository is
still available, but is now archived (read-only).
+* Hop translations are managed in language-specific properties files. These
properties files needed a major cleanup after all of the changes Hop has been
through since early 2020. This cleanup is now done.
+
+=== Apache Doris (Incubating)
+
+Support for https://doris.apache.org/master/en/[Apache Doris (Incubating)] was
added. Doris is a fast MPP database for all modern analytics on big data.
+
+
+== Hop search
+
+https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/hop-tools/hop-search.html[Hop Search] is
a command line tool that offers all the functionality in Hop Gui's Search
perspective: find information or occurrences for any metadata items in Hop or a
specific project.
+
+
+[[community]]
+## Community
+
+=== Hop Mailing lists
+
+Don't forget to subscribe to our mailto:[email protected][dev] and
mailto:[email protected][users] mailing lists!
+These mailing lists allow us to discuss and make decisions in a process that
is as transparent and inclusive as possible, and as such are an important tool
in our communication as an Apache project.
+
+The dev and user lists currently _only_ have 28 and 18 subscribers
respectively. We can do better, Hop Community!
+
+Subscribing is as easy as sending an empty email by clicking the links below:
+
+* mailto:[email protected][users]: general how-to and
functionality questions. Ask us anything!
+* mailto:[email protected][dev]: developer discussions. There's a
lot of informal discussion going on in our https://chat.project-hop.org[chat
channels], but decisions that matter are taken on the dev list!
+
+
+=== Hop Community
+
+The Hop community continues to grow:
+
+* chat: 170 registered members (up from 153)
link:https://chat.project-hop.org[join]
+* LinkedIn: 490 followers (up from 420)
link:https://www.linkedin.com/company/hop-project[follow]
+* Twitter: 405 followers (up from 358)
link:https://twitter.com/ApacheHop[follow]
+* YouTube: 124 subscribers (up from 87)
link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGlcYslwe03Y2zbZ1W6DAGA[subscribe]
+* Meetup: 119 members link:
https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts[join]
+
+Check out the link:/community/team/[complete list] of committers and
contributors.
+
+Without community contribution, Hop is just a coding club! Please feel free to
join, participate in the discussion, test, file bug tickets on the software or
documentation, ... Contributing is a lot more than writing code.
+
+Check out our link:/community/contributing/[contribution guides] and
http://hop.apache.org/community/ethos/[Code of Conduct] to find out more.
+
+[[tickets]]
+## JIRA Activity
+
+* Resolved: 95
+* In Progress: 10
+* Open: 42
+* Closed: 10
+
+The full list of issues that had activity over the last month is available
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20HOP%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202021-04-01%20AND%20resolved%20%3C%3D%202021-04-30%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20ASC&startIndex=50[here^]
+
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