layout: post title: “Apache Beam 2.6.0” date: 2018-08-10 00:00:01 -0800 excerpt_separator: categories: blog authors: - pabloem - rfernand
We are glad to present the new 2.6.0 release of Beam. This release includes multiple fixes and new functionality, such as new features in SQL and portability. We also spent a significant amount of time automating the release and fixing continuous integration. For more information, check the release notes.
gRPC/protobuf
is now shaded in the majority of Apache Beam Java modules. A few modules which expose gRPC/protobuf
on the API surface still maintain a direct dependency.EXISTS
and LIKE
operators.SUM()
aggregations.CASE
expression.LIMIT
.SplittableDoFn
(SDF) support is now available in all runners (SDF is the new I/O connector API).HBaseIO
is the first I/O supporting Bounded SDF (using readAll
).AvroIO
performance.AvroIO
has a use_fastavro
option that uses fastavro
instead of apache/avro
, for a 3-6x speedup!According to git shortlog, the following 39 people contributed to the 2.6.0 release. Thank you to all contributors!
Ahmet Altay, Alan Myrvold, Alexey Romanenko, Andrew Pilloud, Ankur Goenka, Boyuan Zhang, Charles Chen, cclauss, Daniel Oliveira, Elliott Brossard, Eric Beach, Etienne Chauchot, Eugene Kirpichov, Henning Rohde, Ismaël Mejía, Kai Jiang, Kasia, Kenneth Knowles, Luis Osa, Lukasz Cwik, Maria Garcia Herrero, Mark Liu, Matthias Feys, Pablo Estrada, Rafael Fernandez, Reuven Lax, Robert Bradshaw, Robert Burke, Robin Qiu, Ryan Williams, Scott Wegner, Rui Weng, Sergei Lebedev, Sindy Li, Thomas Weise, Udi Meiri, Valentyn Tymofieiev, XuMingmin, and Yifan Zou.