Hi All, We are pleased to announce release candidate 1 of our 2.9.0 release, this release will be our final Java 11 release and we will be moving to Java 17 as minimal version for our next releases.
Notable new features in this release: • CrateDB database type and bulkloader • Static schema definitions and static schema mapper transform Notable Improvements: • Configurable timeouts on rest transform • Caching on database join transform • Azure blob storage improvements • Improvements in database schema/table listing widget • Upgrade to Beam 2.56.0 • German Language support has greatly improved Build instructions can be found in the README included. The tag to be voted on is 2.9.0-rc1 (commit 52f03a5): https://github.com/apache/hop/tree/2.9.0-rc1 The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hop/apache-hop-2.9.0-rc1/ The SHA512 Checksum for these artifacts is: Source: cf8415d4904dde22ce8ce3bb17c73d071557cbf5f4ba67b326c08ca0a26f947e46713d75a36af882f3cfafa92411a89d9feef76f1fb0af4ca578d2bbf6a15ae8 Client: 0a7c24fa940fcbeb3b228044b4a620829157dd1d5abfb63a42412bc5f386335b65ace9f8f924dc1a000b86ba60a359ceda4fecc1c8db37feda9b915dfd9c4c83 Release artifacts are signed with the following key: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x43432afa308f0b5b For more information about the contents of this release, see: https://github.com/apache/hop/milestone/9?closed=1 or https://github.com/apache/hop/releases/tag/2.9.0-rc1 Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Hop 2.9.0! The vote is open for 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least 3 +1 PMC votes are cast. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Hop 2.9.0 [ ] +0 No opinion [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... Best Regards, Hans
