The Apache Beam team is pleased to announce the release of 2.3.0 version!
You can download the release here:
https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/
This release includes the following major new features & improvements:
- full Java 8 support
- Spark 2.x support in Spark runner
- Amazon WS S3 filesystem support
- General-purpose writing to files (FileIO)
- Splittable DoFn support in Python SDK
- Improvements on Portability layer
- Improvements on SDKs & runners
- Improvements on several IOs
You can take a look on the following blog post and Release Notes for details:
https://beam.apache.org/blog/2018/02/19/beam-2.3.0.html
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12341608
Enjoy !!
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JB on behalf of The Apache Beam team