The Apache Hop PMC and community are pleased to announce the general availability of Apache Hop 2.19.0. This 2.19.0 release is the result of a massive effort by the Apache Hop community and contains about three months of work by 22 contributors, (including 6 first-time contributors) on 337 issues. This makes Apache Hop 2.19.0 the project's biggest release so far.
The Hop Orchestration Platform, or Apache Hop, aims to facilitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration. Hop is an open source data integration platform that is easy to use, fast and flexible. Hop aims to be the future of data integration. Visual development enables developers to be more productive than they can be through code. Our Design once, run anywhere workflows and pipelines can be designed in the Hop Gui and run on the Hop native engine (local or remote), or on Spark, Flink, Google Dataflow or AWS EMR through Beam. Lifecycle Management enables developers and administrators to switch between projects, environments, and purposes without leaving your train of thought. A number of highlights in the 2.19.0 release are: • A marketplace has been added to Apache Hop • Native Spark engine • Databricks File system support • Append support for all cloud file systems • support to open and edit filetypes (YAML, sh, bat,...) • SFTP metadata type to use it everywhere • Split view in the UI • Redis input/output • VCard support • Community growth Notable Bug Fixes: • Hop server fixes and cleanup (memory leak, resource export,....) • Shell states and positioning • Variable/project reload issues • Unit test bugs and improvements • Database object quoting issues resolved • Unzip action performance issues • performance tweaks and improvements The release is available for immediate download at: https://hop.apache.org/download/ For more details please take a look at the release announcement at: https://hop.apache.org/blog/2026/08/hop-2.19.0/ Thanks to all involved, Bart Maertens on behalf of the Apache Hop PMC
