Re: [discuss] NiFi 2.0 is here - what this means for the 1.x line and input from the user base

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:08:11 -0800

I'm not very good at the marketing drivel, but here's a stab I took just now. I'm sure others can improve upon it.
Imitation of the Downloads page was done to reduce explanations. Open it with your browser (it stands alone and offers no links to anywhere). 


On 11/5/24 09:34, Joe Witt wrote:

Thanks Russ.  Can you suggest/offer some specific text we should put 
there?





On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 9:31 AM Russell Bateman <[email protected]> 
wrote:


    There may be several places that would make good notification
    points for moving to 2.x. However, in my mind, the most important
    would be something polite, thorough, but not too scary, etc. at
    the Apache NiFi Downloads page--precisely where people go for
    installation artifacts.


    On 11/5/24 09:20, Joe Witt wrote:

    NiFi User Community:

    TLDR: We would like to hear your thoughts on how we best
    communicate to the user base about the importance of moving to
    NiFi 2.x.

    The NiFi 1.x line has enjoyed more than 8 full years of strong
    support and guarantees as it relates to Java 8 compatibility,
    flow compatibility from release to release, and we've on average
    produced more than 4 releases per year throughout that time.

    For the past three years though the NiFi developer base has
    recognized the 1.x line has reached its natural conclusion phase
    as EOL was declared or being declared soon for key components we
    rely on to maintain those NiFi 1.x guarantees for the users. 
    These are critical components such as the underlying JVM, key
    application framework dependencies like Spring, and Jetty, our
    front-end codebase and many other smaller but important libraries
    we rely on.

    To address this we set about creating for and executing a plan
    towards a better future for the NiFi project called NiFi 2.0. 
    During the past year we've created four different milestone
    releases of the Apache NiFi 2.x line and many users are already
    there including production users as well as vendor supported
    users outside the NiFi open source community who have relied on
    NiFi 2.x for nearly a year.

    Yesterday we're very pleased to have finally reached a point
    where the NIFi 2.0 line is now officially GA.

    We encourage all users to migrate to it or make plans to migrate
    to it as soon as practical.  We realize for some users that it
    creates hardship and we remain committed to minimizing such
    difficulties while also ensuring we have a strong path forward to
    continue to evolve and grow the project and user base.

    There are many new components in the 2.x line and many old
    components no longer present at all or by default on the 2.x
    line.  The UI is completely new but should be very familiar.  You
    have to move to a base of Java 21.  Flows (the json form) by and
    large should migrate well or when they don't we make the cases
    often quite manageable but it will require in some cases user
    effort.  We renamed some things which will create some
    complexity.  The net of it is moving from 1.x to 2.x is more work
    and harder than moving from any previous 1.x release to a
    1.x-next release.

    Meanwhile, as I described, the NiFi 1.x line has reached a point
    where addressing many classes of vulnerabile libraries is simply
    not possible.  The 2.x line by comparison was just released with
    our first ever entirely clean vulnerability scan (compared to
    100s of libs in the 1.x line).

    We recognize some users will take a long time to migrate.  The
    NiFi 1.x line will remain available for a very very long time. 
    However, we don't want users to be misled in any way thinking
    we'll be available or able to fix vulnerabilities or even analyze
    them reasonably on 1.x.

    The ask to the user base then is what would be a helpful way of
    communicating to the user base the importance of migrating and
    how to seek help/ask questions?  Where would you look for this
    information or expect it to be?  Would you expect us to call this
    'End of Life' 'End of support' etc..?


    Thanks



Title:  Download - Apache NiFi 


  

  




 Apache NiFi 



 NiFi 2.0.0 Release Notes 





 Sources 



 Source 2.0.0 




 Binaries 



 NiFi Standard 2.0.0 


 NiFi Stateless 2.0.0 


 NiFi Toolkit 2.0.0 








 NiFi 1.28.0 Release Notes 






Current Apache NiFi development is focused on NiFi 2.x. No more features will
be added to 1.28.x. Please see

Migration Guidance* for additional information.





This is a permanent, stable release active on numerous corporate platforms.




 Sources 



 Source 1.28.0 




 Binaries 



 NiFi Standard 1.28.0 


 NiFi Stateless 1.28.0 


 NiFi Toolkit 1.28.0 











* And then let's insert notes about vulnerability issues, software
that is deprecated or at end-of-life, etc. as appropriate
in Migration Guidance.
































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