Great job everyone. Thanks Mike for leading this effort!
On 2 July 2013 12:41, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
