w00t!!
> On Aug 4, 2018, at 3:46 AM, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Con~. Thanks a lot for the great work.
>
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 2:14 AM, Sijie Guo <si...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> The Apache Pulsar team is proud to announce Apache Pulsar version
>> 2.1.0-incubating.
>>
>> This is the seventh Pulsar release after entering the Apache Incubator.
>>
>> Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging streaming platform
>> running on
>> commodity hardware. It provides simple pub/sub semantics over topics,
>> supports
>> at-least-once and effectively-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor
>> management
>> for subscribers, and multi-tenancy and cross-datacenter replication.
>> Additionally,
>> it also provides lightweight stream native processing through Pulsar
>> Functions.
>>
>> 2.1.0-incubating release introduces several major features and improvements
>> from many contributors. These major features include:
>>
>> - Pulsar IO <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-overview/>: A
>> serverless inspired connector framework for moving data in and out of
>> Apache Pulsar leveraging Pulsar Functions
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/functions-overview/>. 6
>> builtin connectors are included: Kafka
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-kafka/>, Kinesis
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-kinesis/>, RabbitMQ
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-rabbitmq/>, Aerospike
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-aerospike/>, Cassandra
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-cassandra/> and Twitter
>> Firehose <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/io-twitter/>.
>>
>> - Tiered Storage
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/concepts-tiered-storage/>: An
>> offloading mechanism in Pulsar segment store to offload old segments from
>> Apache BookKeeper into long term storage such as HDFS, S3, GCS. S3 is
>> currently supported in this release.
>>
>> - Stateful Function
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/functions-state/>: Pulsar
>> Functions introduces a new State API
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/functions-state#api> to store
>> function state back to Apache BookKeeper. It is a deep integration with
>> BookKeeper's table service and it will simplify developing stateful
>> applications using Pulsar Functions. It is available as a developer-preview
>> feature in Java SDK.
>>
>> - Go Client
>> <https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/docs/en/client-libraries-go/>: A cgo
>> wrapper over existing c++ client.
>>
>> - More Schemas are introduced, including Avro
>> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/blob/v2.1.0-
>> incubating/pulsar-client-schema/src/main/java/org/
>> apache/pulsar/client/impl/schema/AvroSchema.java>
>> and Protobuf
>> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/blob/v2.1.0-
>> incubating/pulsar-client-schema/src/main/java/org/
>> apache/pulsar/client/impl/schema/ProtobufSchema.java>
>> .
>>
>>
>> For Pulsar release details and downloads, visit:
>>
>> https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/download
>>
>> Release Notes are at:
>> http://pulsar.apache.org/release-notes/#2.1.0-incubating
>>
>> We would like to thank the contributors that made the release possible.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> The Pulsar Team
>>
>> DISCLAIMER:
>> Apache Pulsar is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
>> Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is
>> required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates
>> that
>> the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have
>> stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While
>> incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or
>> stability
>> of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed
>> by the ASF.
>>
