Pentaho Data Integration 3.1.0 is Generally Available

[MattCasters]

Dear Kettle friends,

It's a pleasure and a privilege to be able to announce version 3.1.0 of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) on behalf of the complete development team and indeed our entire community.
Many things have changed, take a look at the What's new in 3.1. overview

Here are the packages for your downloading and usage pleasure:

• Binary zip file (60 MB)
• Wiki documentation export (105 MB)
• Source zip file (72 MB)
• Javadoc zip file (7 MB)
• OSX dmg image (52 MB)
• Windows Installer : under construction

As you can see from the download list, we have ported our documentation over to the Pentaho Wiki. This will help us to keep the documentation set up to date and also will make it easier to interact with our community (you!) more easily.
The micro-detailed change-logs are here in JIRA:

• RC1 - GA : 130 cases
• M2 - RC1 : 100 cases
• M1 - M2 : 94 cases
• 3.0 - M1 : 238 cases

In short : an impressive 562 bugs, improvements and feature requests got resolved or implemented.

As a reminder, you still need version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment.

We hope you will find PDI useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

Kind regards,

Matt

[DEinspanjer]

Hurray! Congrats! 3.1 is a tremendous advance in the world of Kettle.

Only 562 fixes? Man it seems like we worked on a thousand of them.

[MattCasters]

Some of those items were pretty big like "Refactor the UI" etc :-)

[buachaille]

Well done Matt & the team, good effort !

Paul

[eny]

Great!
I'll give it a try asap.

[srobijns]

Really great! I especially like the checkum step Who came up with the idea? I needed something like that. I did find a workaround already, but that is no longer
needed anymore.

For those still interested in a workaround, using the Modified Java Script step:

var checksum;
var engine;
var buffer;
var input;

checksum = 0;
engine = new java.util.zip.CRC32();
input = new java.lang.String(CRCSTRING); // CRCSTRING is an input field containing all fields that need to be in to checksum, concatenated as a string
buffer = input.getBytes();

engine.update(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
checksum = engine.getValue();
engine.reset();

[MattCasters]

Samatar Hassan (a.k.a. The Step Factory) wrote it.

[elgabito]

Just installed 3.1 - looks great. The UI is much improved - SQL color coding on Table Input is a nice addition as well.

Good job!

[MattCasters]

Good point, we should probably add that to the "What's new" page. Then again, there is so much it becomes hard to list it all.
Thanks,
Matt

[TheFrog]

This is a fantastic leap forward. I am deeply impressed. PDI has really taken a practical and visual step forward as well as usability. The data validation step is really a boon. Brilliant stuff.

Many many thanks

The Frog