I also believe we were still in the investigatory phase for dropping support for Java 7.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <kirpic...@google.com> wrote: > Thanks JB for sending the detailed notes about new stuff in 2.2.0! A lot > of exciting things indeed. > > Regarding Java 8: I thought our consensus was to have the release notes > say that we're *considering* going Java8-only, and use that to get more > opinions from the user community - but I can't find the emails that made me > think so. > > +Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> - do you think we should formally > conclude the vote on the thread [VOTE] [DISCUSSION] Remove support for Java > 7? > Or should we take more steps - e.g. perhaps tweet a link to that thread > from the Beam twitter account, ask people to chime in, and wait for say 2 > weeks before declaring a conclusion? > > Let's also have a process JIRA for going Java8. I've filed one: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3285 > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:58 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> > wrote: > >> Just an important note that we forgot to mention. >> >> !! The 2.2.0 release will be the last one supporting Spark 1.x and Java 7 >> !! >> >> Starting from Beam 2.3.0, the Spark runner will work only with Spark 2.x >> and we >> will focus only Java 8. >> >> Regards >> JB >> >> On 12/04/2017 10:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: >> > Thanks Reuven ! >> > >> > I would like to emphasize on some highlights in 2.2.0 release: >> > >> > - New IOs have been introduced: >> > * TikaIO leveraging Apache Tika, allowing the deal with a lot of >> different >> > data formats >> > * RedisIO to read and write key/value pairs from a Redis server. This >> IO will >> > be soon extended to Redis PubSub. >> > * FileIO provides transforms for working with files (raw). >> Especially, it >> > provides matching file patterns and read on patterns. It can be easily >> extended >> > for a specific format (like we do in AvroIO or TextIO now). >> > * SolrIO to interact with Apache Solr (Lucene) >> > >> > - On the other hand, improvements have been performed on existing IOs: >> > * We started to introduce readAll pattern in IOs (AvroIO, TextIO, >> JdbcIO, >> > ...), allowing to pass "request" arguments via an input PCollection. >> > * ElasticsearchIO has an improved support of different Elasticsearch >> version >> > (including Elasticsearch 5.x). It also now supports SSL/TLS. >> > * HBaseIO is now able to do dynamic work rebalancing >> > * KinesisIO uses a more accurate watermark (based on >> approximateArrivalTimestamp) >> > * TextIO now supports custom delimiter and like AvroIO, supports the >> readAll >> > pattern, >> > * Performance improvements on JdbcIO when it has to read lot of rows >> > * Kafka write supports Exactly-Once pattern (introduce in Kafka >> 0.11.x) >> > >> > - A new DSL has been introduced: the SQL DSL ! >> > >> > We are now focus on 2.3.0 release with new improvements and features ! >> > >> > Stay tuned ! >> > >> > JB on behalf of the Apache Beam community. >> > >> > On 12/02/2017 11:40 PM, Reuven Lax wrote: >> >> The Apache Beam community is pleased to announce the availability of >> the >> >> 2.2.0 release. >> >> >> >> This release adds support for generic file sources and sinks (beyond >> TextIO >> >> and AvroIO) using FileIO, including support for dynamic filenames using >> >> readAll; this allows streaming pipelines to now read from files by >> >> continuously monitoring a directory for new filw. Many other IOs are >> improved, >> >> notably including exactly-once support for the Kafka sink. Initial >> support for >> >> BEAM-SQL is also included in this release. For a more-complete list of >> major >> >> changes in the release, please refer to the release notes [2]. >> >> >> >> The 2.2.0 release is now the recommended version; we encourage >> everyone to >> >> upgrade from any earlier releases. >> >> >> >> We’d like to invite everyone to try out Apache Beam today and consider >> >> joining our vibrant community. We welcome feedback, contribution and >> >> participation through our mailing lists, issue tracker, pull requests, >> and >> >> events. >> >> >> >> - Reuven Lax, on behalf of the Apache Beam community. >> >> >> >> [1] https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/ >> >> [2] >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa? >> projectId=12319527&version=12341044 >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> jbono...@apache.org >> http://blog.nanthrax.net >> Talend - http://www.talend.com >> >
