+1
Thank you for RMing!
Ferenc
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM Gábor Gyimesi <lordga...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Community,
>
> I’d like to initiate a discussion about the next release of MiNiFi
> C++. The last release was more than seven months ago, and since then
> many new features, bug fixes, and stability improvements have been
> committed to the development branch: 100 tickets closed and over 103
> commits as of today.
>
> I would be happy to take on RM duties for this release.
>
> Notable features and improvements since the 0.99.1 release:
>
> New notable features:
> - Added support for compilation using the C++23 standard with the
> following compilers: g++ 12 or later, clang 16 or later, and MSVC
> 19.33 or later
> - Added Linux FHS support, enabling RPM packaging with standard
> directory conventions
> - Added FIPS compliance support
> - Added support for asset path references in flow configs in the
> @{asset-id:id} format
> - Added support for parameter providers and parameter context inheritance
> - Added support for CMake4
> - Dynamically find and load libpython on macOS
> - Added processorBulletins C2 metric node to FlowInformation metrics
> - Added option to output the full batch as a single flow file in TailFile
> - Added lazy mode using the last seen value in FetchOPCProcessor
> - Added state manager support for the Python NiFi API
> - Extended OPC processors new properties and the OPC processors now
> work correctly with node id path
> - Extended ConsumeKafka with a commit offset policy property for late
> offset commits
> - Added flowStatus command to minifi.sh
>
> New processors and controllers:
> - Added RunLlamaCppInference processor
> - Added PutKinesisStream processor
> - Added ConvertRecord processor
> - Added EvaluateJsonPath processor
> - Added SplitJson processor
> - Added XMLReader and XMLRecordSetWriter controller services
>
> Changes and improvements:
> - Significant code restructuring for the upcoming C API introduction
> - Improved ConsumeWindowsEventLog performance by more than 60%
> - Redesigned VolatileContentRepository for easier use and 2× better
> performance
> - Improved schema generation for easier usage
> - Refactored property handling for cleaner usage
> - Funnels can now be used as terminators
> - Improved logging for Python virtualenv initialization
> - Improved MSI installer for script extensions
>
> Upgraded dependencies:
> - Upgraded expected_lite to v0.9.0
> - Upgraded GCP library to v2.38.0
> - Upgraded googletest to v1.17.0
> - Upgraded libarchive to v3.8.1
> - Upgraded cpplint to version 2.0.2
> - Upgraded Azure SDK to versions: Azure Identity v1.13.0, Azure
> Storage Blobs v12.14.0, Azure Storage Files Datalake v12.13.0-beta.1
> - Upgraded Asio library to v1.34.2
> - Upgraded RocksDB library to v10.2.1
> - Upgraded Catch2 library to v3.8.1
> - Upgraded Couchbase library to v1.1.0
> - Upgraded sol2 library to v3.5.0
> - Upgraded spdlog library to v1.15.3
> - Upgraded fmt library to v11.2.0
>
> With the upcoming C API support for processor development still
> underway, I suggest releasing this as version 0.99.2. When the C API
> is ready, we can plan for a 1.0.0 release.
>
> Do you agree it is time for a new release? Are there any blockers that
> we should definitely include in this release?
>
> Thanks,
> Gabor
