As was pointed out to me by Ryan Williams, the link I posted with the release notes is not right. Here is a link with Beam 2.6.0 release notes for those interested:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/BEAM/versions/12343392 On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:41 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > You can download the release here: > > 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 > <https://goto.google.com/pabloem-feedback> > > > -- Got feedback? go/pabloem-feedback