September 6th 2007 01:53 am
Kettle 3 Milestone 2 is available
UPDATE: version 3.0 has been released!
Dear Kettle fans,
After a long period of bug-squashing and other frantic coding activities, we are happy to give you Kettle’s second milestone of version 3.0.0. (77MB zip file)
What has changed since M1?
- New icons!! This is the first release to include a new set of icons and as such a fresh new look.
- A new Mondrian Input step to read from Pentaho Analyses using MDX.
- A new Regular Expression evaluation step
- Access Input (don’t ask!)
- Fixed / improved repository support
- Improved database dialect handling (SQL Server .. problem and forcing identifiers to lower/uppercase)
- Vast improvements to the clustering/partitioning engine (dynamic partitioning, etc)
- A “Explore DB” button for quick access to your databases
- A complete set of internal changes with respect to the “look & feel” of Spoon
- A series of improvements to the Lazy Conversion algorithms
- The remaining steps that where missing in M1 got ported
- Of-course a host of bugs got fixed as well
With this 3.0.0M2 release we’re setting another big step towards more stability and maybe a GA release in a few months. However, please refrain from using this version in production situations!
Enjoy it!
Matt
Help us out and report bugs over here
11 Comments »
Roland Bouman on 06 Sep 2007 at 1:55 #
Hi Matt,
Congrats! I will be testing it soon
Cheers and see you soon some time
Roland
foo on 06 Sep 2007 at 2:45 #
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XperimentoS » Archivo del Blog » Kettle 3.0.0 M2 on 06 Sep 2007 at 20:06 #
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Benoit COLAS on 26 Sep 2007 at 12:37 #
Cannot run PDI 3.0 M2: I have a bad error: “Could not find the main class. Program will exit”.
I am running JDK 1.4.2.14
Any idea ?
Benoit
Matt Casters on 26 Sep 2007 at 12:51 #
Hi Benoit,
Like we said during the M1 announcement, Kettle now requires version Java version 1.5. or higher.
HTH,
Matt
Benoit COLAS on 26 Sep 2007 at 16:30 #
Thanks for help: it works fine now.
I installed it because I am looking at the remote execution of jobs: is this feature in 3.0 M2 ?
Many thanks - Benoit
Matt Casters on 26 Sep 2007 at 16:49 #
No, I’m adding this feature today. It will appear in version 3.0.0-RC1.
Chintan Desai on 17 Oct 2007 at 19:37 #
Hi Matt,
Is version 3.0.0 a beta version? And You said some more features will be available in 3.0.0 RC1 , sorry for ignorance but what does it mean by RC1?
Matt Casters on 17 Oct 2007 at 20:24 #
We don’t really work with alpha and beta releases.
We typically release 2 or more Milestone releases (M1, M2, M3) in which new functionality is added.
Then we release a series (usually 2 or 3) Release Candidates (RC1, RC2, RC3).
You can call a release candidate a beta release if you like with that distinction that there can be several versions.
It’s important to note that once we have a Release Candidate out we no longer add new functionality at all. Only bugs are fixed.
Stability also (typically one must hope) goes up. In a week or so we’ll release RC2 which will be quite stable if I say so myself.
Even though that is the case, we are still expanding the unit test-cases, enhance documentation, write new training material, do translations (i18n), make sure things are backward compatible, etc. Even though it’s totally different from purely coding Java, it’s still a lot of important work that needs to be done.
After the Release Candidates we release a GA version which stands for General Availability. (targetted for the middle of November)
Hope this helps,
Matt
José Pérez on 15 Nov 2007 at 16:38 #
Hola Matt, que pena, hasta ahora estoy iniciando con esto de herramientas ETL, y pues la verdad en la mayoría de Foros recomiendan Kettle, por esto quisiera realizar la instalaci´ón y realizar unas pruebas, para saber si la empresa donde laboro, la utiliza para desarrollar un proyecto. Pero no he encontrado mucha información para realizar la instalación, estoy un poco confundido si para trabajar con Kettle debo instalar Mondrian..
Gracias por tu ayuda.
Matt Casters on 15 Nov 2007 at 17:41 #
Hi José,
There is absolutely no need to install Mondrian to use Kettle.
The installation procedure for Kettle is very easy: download the Kettle binary distribution zip file and unzip it in a directory.
Please note that you need version 1.5 of Java to run Kettle. So install a recent JVM first ( go to htt://www.java.com ).
Then simply run “Spoon.bat” or “sh spoon.sh” if you are working on Windows or Linux/Unix/OSX.
All the best,
Matt