The Apache Flume team is pleased to announce the release of Flume 1.4.0. Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of streaming event data.
Version 1.4.0 is the fourth Flume release as an Apache top-level project. Flume 1.4.0 is stable, production-ready software, and is backwards-compatible with previous versions of the Flume 1.x codeline. Six months of active development went into this release: 261 patches were committed since 1.3.1, representing many features, enhancements, and bug fixes. While the full change log can be found on the 1.4.0 release page (link below), here are a few new feature highlights: * New JMS Source * New Solr Sink with ETL capabilities * Updated ElasticSearch sink to support ES version 0.90 * Support for secure SSL transport over Avro-RPC clients, sources & sinks * Support for Thrift-RPC as a transport mechanism * Support for embedding a Flume agent within applications * Support for a new plugins.d directory structure for managing Flume addons * Support for reading Avro files via the Spooling Directory source * Support for writing Avro files with arbitrary schemas via the HDFS sink * Support for ingesting Avro-serializable objects via the log4j API * Improvements to the file channel to keep a backup checkpoint to avoid replays * Performance improvements to the file channel, including group commit * New file channel consistency check tool Below is the list of people (from Git/SVN logs) who submitted and/or reviewed improvements to Flume during the 1.4.0 development cycle: Alexander Alten-Lorenz Aline Guedes Pinto Brock Noland Cameron Gandevia Chris Birchall Christopher Nagy Deepesh Khandelwal Denny Ye Edward Sargisson Hari Shreedharan Israel Ekpo Ivan Bogdanov Jarek Jarcec Cecho Jeff Lord Joey Echeverria Jolly Chen Juhani Connolly Mark Grover Mike Percy Mubarak Seyed Nitin Verma Oliver B. Fischer Patrick Wendell Paul Chavez Pedro Urbina Escos Phil Scala Rahul Ravindran Ralph Goers Roman Shaposhnik Roshan Naik Sravya Tirukkovalur Steve Hoffman Ted Malaska Thiruvalluvan M. G. Thom DeCarlo Tim Bacon Tom White Venkat Ranganathan Venkatesh Sivasubramanian Will McQueen Wolfgang Hoschek This release can be downloaded from the Flume download page at: http://flume.apache.org/download.html The full change log and documentation are available on the 1.4.0 release page: http://flume.apache.org/releases/1.4.0.html Your contributions, feedback, help and support make Flume better! For more information on how to report problems or to get involved, please visit the project website at http://flume.apache.org The Apache Flume Team
