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| title: "Apache Hop 2.4 is available!!" |
| date: 2023-03-31T06:49:56+02:00 |
| authors: ["bamaer"] |
| categories: ["2.4", "Release", "Apache Hop"] |
| preview: "Apache Hop 2.4 Released" |
| description: "The latest Apache Hop release 2.4.0 is now available. Let's walk through the most important new features in this release." |
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| :toc-title: Let's take a closer look at what Hop 2.4 brings: |
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| After another two months of work on 98 tickets, the Apache Hop community is pleased to announce the general availability of Apache Hop 2.4.0. + |
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| A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible. |
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| or https://hop.apache.org/download/[**download Hop 2.4.0 **] right away. |
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| Apache Hop 2.4.0 is another mostly bug fixing release with a number of new features. |
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| == New Features |
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| https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/database/databases/duckdb.html[DuckDB^] is now a supported database type. DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP and column-oriented database management system. Check the https://duckdb.org/[DuckDB^] website for more information. |
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| image:https://duckdb.org/images/DuckDB_Logo_dl.png[DuckDB, width="25%"] |
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| The Relational Database Connection metadata type in Hop Gui now shows which database driver (if any) and version is available. |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/rdbms-driver-info.png[Relational Database Connection driver info, width="55%"] |
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| When selecting multiple transforms, you can now enable or disable all hops in this selection from the context dialog. |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/enable-disable-hops-between-selection.png[Enable of disable hops between selected transforms, width="55%"] |
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| A new JSR-223 https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/pipeline/transforms/script.html[Script transform^] supports scripts in ECMAScript (JavaScript as part of the JVM), Groovy and Python (through the Jython library). |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/script-transform.png[Script transform, width="65%"] |
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| A new https://hop.apache.org//manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/validator.html[Data Validator^] transform. This transform allows you to add data validations which can each validate the input data for the various fields in the input rows. |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/data-validator-transform.png[Data Validator transform, width="65%"] |
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| You can now change the default behavior of the environment dropdown box (show all environments) to only show the environments for the selected project. (Configuration perspective -> Plugins -> Projects -> check "Restrict environment list to active project") |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/restrict-environment-list-to-current-project.png[Restrict environment list to current project, width="55%"] |
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| == Improvements |
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| A Lot of bugs have been fixed in among others the https://hop.apache.org//manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/filterrows.html[Filter rows^], https://hop.apache.org//manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/formula.html[Formula^] and https://hop.apache.org//manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/excelinput.html[Microsoft Excel input^] (large file handling) transforms. |
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| Apache Hop comes with lots of new and improved documentation pages, translation updates and a batch of new samples in the samples project. |
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| Translations for German, Italian and French have been updated. |
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| == Container image |
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| The default path for the hop installation inside the container image has been updated from `/opt/hop/hop` |
| to `/opt/hop`. |
| Make sure to update your paths if you extended or modified the base image. |
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| == Community |
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| The Hop community continues to grow! |
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| No new committers have been added since the 2.3.0 release. |
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| The overview below shows the community growth compared to the 2.3.0 release in January: |
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| * chat: 548 registered members (up from 516) link:https://chat.project-hop.org[join] |
| * LinkedIn: 1245 followers (up from 1180) link:https://www.linkedin.com/company/hop-project[follow] |
| * Twitter: 857 followers (up from 844) link:https://twitter.com/ApacheHop[follow] |
| * YouTube: 799 subscribers (up from 739) link:https://www.youtube.com/ApacheHop[subscribe] |
| * 3Hx Meetup: 278 members (up from 276) link:https://www.meetup.com/3hx-apache-hop-incubating-hot-hop-hangouts/[join] |
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| image:/img/Release-2.4/hop-community-growth.png[Apache Hop Community Growth, width="60%"] |
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| Without community interaction and contribution, Hop is just a coding club! Please feel free to join, participate in the discussion, test, file bug tickets on the software or documentation, ... Contributing is a lot more than writing code. |
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| Check out our link:/community/contributing/[contribution guides^] and http://hop.apache.org/community/ethos/[Code of Conduct^] to find out more. |
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| == GitHub Issues |
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| This release contains work on 98 tickets: |
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| Check out the full list of issues in Apache Hop 2.4.0 in our https://github.com/apache/hop/issues[Github Issues^] |
| and the https://github.com/apache/hop/releases/tag/2.4.0-rc1[Release notes^]. |
