Great news! Thanks to Pablo for driving this and to all contributors of this release!
> On 9 Aug 2018, at 00:48, Pablo Estrada <pabl...@google.com> wrote: > > The Apache Beam team is pleased to announce the release of 2.6.0 version! > > Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and > execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream > (continuous) processing. See https://beam.apache.org > <https://beam.apache.org/> > > You can download the release here: > > https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/ > <https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/> > > This release includes the following major new features & improvements, among > others: > - Improvements for internal Context Management in Python SDK > - A number of improvements to the Portability Framework > - A Universal Local Runner has been added to Beam. This runner runs in a > single machine using portability, and containerized SDK harnesses. > - Increased the coverage of ErrorProne analysis of the codebase. > - Updates to various dependency versions > - Updates to stability, performance, and documentation. > - SQL - improvements: support exists operator, implemented sum() > aggregations, fixes to CASE expression, support for date comparison, support > LIMIT on Unbounded Data > - Provide automatic schema registration for POJOs > > You can take a look at the Release Notes for more details: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12343392&projectId=12319527 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12343392&projectId=12319527https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12343392&projectId=12319527> > > Thanks to everyone who participated in this release, and we hope you'll have > a good time using Beam 2.6.0. > -- > Pablo Estrada, on behalf of The Apache Beam team > -- > Got feedback? go/pabloem-feedback
