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+title: "Apache Hop 2.2 is available!!"
+date: 2022-12-06T07:49:56+02:00
+authors: ["bamaer"]
+categories: ["2.2", "Release", "Apache Hop"]
+preview: "Apache Hop 2.2 Released"
+description: "The latest Apache Hop release 2.2.0 is now available. Let's
walk through the most important new features in this release."
+draft: false
+---
+
+:imagesdir: ../../../../../static
+
+:toc: macro
+:toclevels: 3
+:toc-title: Let's take a closer look at what Hop 2.2 brings:
+:toc-class: none
+
+After almost two months of work on over 160 tickets, the Apache Hop community
is pleased to announce the general availability of Apache Hop 2.2.0. +
+
+A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible.
+
+image::/img/Release-2.2/hop-22.svg[ width="45%"]
+
+ +
+
+toc::[]
+
+or https://hop.apache.org/download/[**download Hop 2.2.0 **] right away.
+
+== Hop GUI improvements
+
+Hop GUI continues to improve with every release. These are evolutions rather
than revolutions, but Apache Hop 2.2.0 comes with **a lot** of evolution in Hop
GUI.
+
+=== Welcome Dialog
+
+New Apache Hop users may not know exactly where to start right away. A new
welcome dialog (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4448[HOP-4448^]) in
Hop GUI helps new users to get started quickly with links to documentation and
samples.
+
+This welcome dialog not only introduces a new link plugin type but also allows
any plugin in the Hop platform to add their own information to the welcome
dialog.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-welcome.png[Hop GUI - welcome dialog, width=75%]
+
+For example, take a closer look at the
https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/beam/getting-started-with-beam.html[Apache
Beam] tab, that takes you directly to useful documentation links and switches
to the Beam pipelines in the samples project.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-welcome-beam.png[Hop GUI - Apache Beam welcome
dialog, width=75%]
+
+=== A new navigation viewport
+
+One of Apache Hop's best practices is to keep
https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/best-practices/index.html#_size_matters[the
size] of your pipelines and workflows within reason.
+
+However, sometimes your business logic requires more screen real estate than
what fits in a single screen.
+
+Navigating pipelines and workflows with the horizontal and vertical scroll
bars has always been a bit of a painful experience and was hard to get right on
the variety of platforms Hop GUI and Hop Web need to support.
+
+The viewport (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4527[HOP-4527^]) in
Hop 2.2.0 brings a new way of navigating your pipelines and workflows in Hop
GUI and Hop Web: simply drag around in the viewport to move your pipeline up,
down, left or right.
+
+Additionally, zooming in and out has been improved, with cleaned up and more
consistent scrollwheel zooming and `CTRL-+/=` and `CTRL--` to zoom in and out,
and `CTRL-0` to return to 100% zoom.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-viewport.png[Hop GUI - viewport, width=75%]
+
+=== New data grid toolbars instead of right-click menu
+
+When developing or debugging pipelines, Hop users often work with data grids
or tables, for example to preview data.
+
+A lot of the operations in these grids require operations like cutting,
copying and pasting rows, moving rows up or down in a selection and more.
+
+The way to perform these actions until Hop 2.1.0 was through the right-click
menu on these grids. This isn't always ideal, especially in a Hop Web context.
+
+Hop 2.2.0 introduces a new data grid toolbar (HOP-4585 Create toolbar on top
of TableView widget https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4585[HOP-4585^])
to allow all these operation at the click of a button.
+
+Also notice the last option in the toolbar: it is now possible to export the
contents of a grid to Excel
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4593[HOP-4593^]).
+
+TIP: For easy editing of large or advanced data grid, you can copy/paste data
grids between Apache Hop and Excel or other spreadsheet platforms in both
directions.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-grid-toolbars.png[Hop GUI - data grid toolbars,
width=75%]
+
+=== Configuration perspective
+
+The number of plugins that is added to Apache Hop increases with every
release.
+
+A lot of these plugins require or allow configuration. To avoid littering Hop
GUI with configuration options all over the place, Apache Hop 2.2.0 introduces
a new configuration perpsective
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4213[HOP-4213^]). Plugin developers
can add their configuration options to this perspective
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-config-perspective.png[Hop GUI - configuration
perspective, width=75%]
+
+=== Hop Web
+
+Hop Web has been available since the very early Apache Hop releases, but has
come a long way since then.
+
+Hop Web now is a stable and usable alternative to Hop GUI on the desktop.
+
+Hop Web in Apache Hop 2.2.0 comes with numerous improvements: the number of
full or partial ui refreshes has decreased significantly, only SVG images are
used now, the file menu has been replaced with a more web-native hamburger menu
(behind the Apache Hop logo) and many other tweaks and fixes.
+
+Check the
https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/hop-gui/hop-web.html#top["Getting Hop
Web"] docs to take Hop Web for a spin.
+
+== Various component upgrades
+
+Every Hop release comes with lots of component upgrades, Apache Hop 2.2.0 is
no exception.
+
+In addition to lots of smaller updates, Hop 2.2.0 contains upgrades for
+
+* https://beam.apache.org[Apache Beam^] 2.43 is the latest Apache Beam
release, with support for Apache Spark 3.3.0, Apache Flink 1.15.2 and the
latest Google Dataflow.
+* https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/4.0/cassandra/new/index.html[Apache
Cassandra 4^] is Cassandra's latest major release. Cassandra 4 brings Java 11
support, virtual tables, audit and full query logging, messaging, streaming and
transient replication.
+* https://neo4j.com/blog/announcing-neo4j-5-graph-database/[Neo4j 5^] comes
with increased performance, sharding, autonomous clustering and agile
operations.
+
+== Apache Beam and Google Dataflow
+
+After lengthy discussions on e.g. the Apache Hop
https://lists.apache.org/thread/wv4h8zyprp0z0c010g302s8n7hcsm2kn[mailing
lists^], the Google Dataflow run configuration now supports passing specific
options to Google Dataflow jobs.
+
+Apache Hop pipelines can be scheduled and triggered in various ways. New in
Apache Hop 2.2.0 is the ability to schedule with
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/concepts/dataflow-templates[Dataflow
templates^] through
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/templates/using-flex-templates[Flex
templates^].
+
+Check
https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/pipeline/beam/dataflowPipeline/google-dataflow-pipeline.html[the
docs^] for more detailed information on how to configure your own Dataflow
templates.
+
+If you're working in a Beam pipeline, Hop GUI now lets you jump directly to
the Google Dataflow console to follow up the execution for that pipeline.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-dataflow-console.png[Hop GUI - visit Dataflow
console, width=75%]
+
+A number of smaller but noteworthy improvements in the Apache Beam
integration:
+
+* The Apache Beam API now is a first-class citizen in Apache Hop. Even though
this is not immediately visible, it means other transform plugins can now
depend on it.
+* as the number of available Beam integration tests grows, we've updated the
"supported engines" section in the transform docs for transforms that reliably
pass the Apache Beam integration tests
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4634[HOP-4634^]).
+* the Simple Mapping transforms now works in Apache Beam pipelines
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4442[HOP-4442^])
+
+== Various
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4556[HOP-4556^]: The execution
information perspective now shows the execution lineage and Cypher tabs for
Neo4j execution logging, similar to the initial Neo4j logging perspective.
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4285[HOP-4285^] Clean up XML
serialization: the Apache Hop code base is moving towards a code base that is
decoupled from the serialization format. This involves cleaning up the code
base to replace dependencies on the XML format for pipelines and workflows
with.
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4597[HOP-4597^] Language choice
improvements in Chinese environment
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-4627[HOP-4627^] Allow comma
separated options in hop-conf --project-variable.
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-gui-neo4j-execution-logging.png[Hop GUI - Neo4j
Execution Logging, width=75%]
+
+
+== Community
+
+The Hop community continues to grow!
+
+The Apache Hop PMC and community welcomed one new committer since the 2.1.0
release.
+
+The overview below shows the community growth compared to the 2.0.0 release in
June:
+
+* chat: 481 registered members (up from 440)
link:https://chat.project-hop.org[join]
+* LinkedIn: 1126 followers (up from 1026)
link:https://www.linkedin.com/company/hop-project[follow]
+* Twitter: 819 followers (up from 780)
link:https://twitter.com/ApacheHop[follow]
+* YouTube: 700 subscribers (up from 644)
link:https://www.youtube.com/ApacheHop[subscribe]
+* 3Hx Meetup: 275 members (up from 259)
link:https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/[join]
+
+image:/img/Release-2.2/hop-community-growth.png[Apache Hop Community Growth,
width="60%"]
+
+Without community interaction and 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.
+
+== JIRA
+
+Apache Hop 2.2.0 contains work on 163 tickets:
+
+* Resolved: 158
+* Closed: 5
+
+2.2.0 is the latest release where tickets are managed in JIRA. Development has
switched to https://github.com/apache/hop/issues[Github Issues^]. All
development and bug fixes will continue there.
+
+Check the
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-3962?jql=project%20%3D%20%22Apache%20Hop%22%20and%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.2.0[Hop
Jira^] for a full overview of all tickets.
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