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| title: "The first release of Apache Beam!" |
| date: 2016-06-15 00:00:01 -0700 |
| categories: |
| - beam |
| - release |
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| - /beam/release/2016/06/15/first-release.html |
| authors: |
| - davor |
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| I’m happy to announce that Apache Beam has officially released its first |
| version -- 0.1.0-incubating. This is an exciting milestone for the project, |
| which joined the Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Incubator earlier |
| this year. |
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| This release publishes the first set of Apache Beam binaries and source code, |
| making them readily available for our users. The initial release includes the |
| SDK for Java, along with three runners: Apache Flink, Apache Spark and Google |
| Cloud Dataflow, a fully-managed cloud service. The release is available both |
| in the [Maven Central Repository](https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.beam%22), |
| as well as a download from the [project’s website](/get-started/downloads/). |
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| The goal of this release was process-oriented. In particular, the Beam |
| community wanted to release existing functionality to our users, build and |
| validate the release processes, and obtain validation from the Apache Software |
| Foundation and the Apache Incubator. |
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| I’d like to encourage everyone to try out this release. Please keep in mind |
| that this is the first incubating release -- significant changes are to be |
| expected. As we march toward stability, a rapid cadence of future releases is |
| anticipated, perhaps one every 1-2 months. |
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| As always, the Beam community welcomes feedback. Stabilization, usability and |
| the developer experience will be our focus for the next several months. If you |
| have any comments or discover any issues, I’d like to invite you to reach out |
| to us via [user’s mailing list](/get-started/support/) or the |
| [Apache JIRA issue tracker](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM/). |
