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Visual changes

• Mouse-over
• More intuitive menus
• New welcome screen
• Hop creation
• Improved error handling configuration
• New perspectives support for Agile BI visualisations, modelling, scheduling, etc.

Running jobs in Spoon

• Drill down into running job entries
• Visual indicators of running and completed job entries with success and failure mini-icons
• Mouse over completion mini-icons shows details of execution results
• Log capturing of completed job entries

Running transformations in Spoon

• Drill down into running transformation job entries and mappings
• Row input/output sniff testing: see what rows are passing
• Remote input/output sniff testing on a Carte server

New logging architecture

• Reduced memory consumption
• Incremental log updates
• Maximum memory consumption Global log buffer size limit for long running jobs/transformations
• Interval logging
• Auto clean-up of old log records
• Log record time-outs
• Log record lineage
• Log record color codingNew plugin architecture Unified plugin colour coding in Spoon (blue and red for error lines)
• Step Logging
• Job entry logging
• Execution lineage logging
• Renaming individual columns
• Global configuration options for all log tables

New plug-in architecture

• Unified plug-in architecture
• Easier deployment and packaging
• Step, job entry, partitioner, database type, spoon perspective, life-cycle, ... : all pluggable

New repository

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plug-in architecture

• Allowing for 3rd party repositories like the Pentaho Unified Enterprise Repository...
• Removed dependencies to relational database repository (still supported though)
• Added support for repositories capable of team-development (file locking)
• Added support for repositories capable of fine-grained security repositories
• Added support for repositories capable of storing and retrieving revision history

Step changes

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• SAP Input: Reads data from an SAP/R3 application server. (needs jsapco.jar not included in PDI)
• Data Grid : Allows you to enter static rows of data for reference or testing purposes
• OLAP Input: read data from an OLAP server using olap4j over XML/A: Mondrian, Palo, SSAS, SAP B/W
• Salesforce Delete, Insert, Update, Upsert
• Add fields changing sequence: a sequence that gets reset when the values in a set of fields changes. (group sequence)
• User Defined Java Class: create your own plugin on the fly in a step (coming out of incubation)
• Send information using Syslog: Send a message to a Syslog server. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog
• Java Filter : Filter based on a User Defined Java Expression
• Memory Group By: for smaller groups you can keep the intermediate statistical results in memory leading to faster results
• Farrage LucidDB streaming bulk loader
• Teradata Fastload Bulk loader
• Experimental steps added: Get table names, Email messages input, ...

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• New repository plugin plug-in architecture
• New Pentaho Unified Enterprise Repository type
• New File repository type
• New repository explorer
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This is what that gave us over the last releases:
 

Libraries

The total library portfolio of Pentaho Data Integration consists of these libs:

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