The Apache Beam team is pleased to announce the release of 2.3.0 version! You can download the release here:
https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/ This release includes the following major new features & improvements: - full Java 8 support - Spark 2.x support in Spark runner - Amazon WS S3 filesystem support - General-purpose writing to files (FileIO) - Splittable DoFn support in Python SDK - Improvements on Portability layer - Improvements on SDKs & runners - Improvements on several IOs You can take a look on the following blog post and Release Notes for details: https://beam.apache.org/blog/2018/02/19/beam-2.3.0.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12341608 Enjoy !! -- JB on behalf of The Apache Beam team