KETTLE 4.2.0 stable is out

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More informations from pentaho kettle's forum :

Here are some of the new things in this version:

• The Excel Writer step offers advanced Excel output functionality to control the look and feel of your spreadsheets.
• Graphical performance and progress feedback for transformations
• The Google Analytics step allows download of statistics from your Google analytics account
• The Pentaho Reporting Output step makes it possible for you to run your (parameterized) Pentaho reports in a transformation. It allows for easy report bursting of personalized reports.
• The Automatic Documentation step generates (simple) documentation of your transformations and jobs using the Pentaho Reporting API.
• The Get repository names step retrieves job and transformation information from your repositories.
• The LDAP Writer step
• The Ingres VectorWise (streaming) bulk loader step
• The Greenplumb (streaming) bulk loader step (for gpload)
• The Talend Job Execution job entry
• Healthcare Level 7 : HL7 Input step, HL7 MLLP Input and HL7 MLLP Acknowledge job entries
• The PGP File Encryption, Decryption & validation job entries facilitate encryption and decryption of files using PGP.
• The Single Threader step for parallel performance tuning of large transformations
• Allow a job to be started at a job entry of your choice (continue after fixing an error)
• The MongoDB Input step (including authentication)
• The ElasticSearch bulk loader
• The XML Input Stream (StAX) step to read huge XML files at optimal performance and flat memory usage by flattening the structure of the data.
• The Get ID from Slave Server step allows multi-host or clustered transformations to get globally unique integer IDs from a slave server: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/...m+Slave+Server
• Carte improvements:
• reserve next value range from a slave sequence service
• allow parallel (simultaneous) runs of clustered transformations
• list (reserved and free) socket reservations service
• new options in XML for configuring slave sequences
• allow time-out of stale objects using environment variable KETTLE_CARTE_OBJECT_TIMEOUT_MINUTES
• Memory tuning of logging back-end with: KETTLE_MAX_LOGGING_REGISTRY_SIZE, KETTLE_MAX_JOB_ENTRIES_LOGGED, KETTLE_MAX_JOB_TRACKER_SIZE allowing for flat memory usage for never ending ETL in general and jobs specifically.
• Repository Import/Export
• Export at the repository folder level
• Export and Import with optional rule-based validations
• Import command line utility allow for rule-based (optional) import of lists of transformations, jobs and repository export files: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/...+Documentation
• ETL Metadata Injection:
• Retrieval of rows of data from a step to the “metadata injection” step
• Support for injection into the “Excel Input” step
• Support for injection into the “Row normaliser” step
• Support for injection into the “Row Denormaliser” step
• The Multiway Merge Join step (experimental) allows for any number of data sources to be joined using one or more keys using an inner or a full outer join algorithm.

I'd like the Talend Job Execution job entry very much... it's so funny to use Talend inside of Kettle ;-)