Pentaho Community Edition (CE) software is available in three forms: source code that you can build yourself, continuous integration (CI) builds and released builds. See Community Edition Downloads for more details.

Released Builds

Released builds are classified Pre Release, Milestone, Release Candidate or Stable. They are built and posted to SourceForge.net in order to get wide distribution in the community. See Detailed Download Explanation for the full definition of these terms.

Pre Release

Kettle - The current version of Kettle is 4.3.0. It is the first open source release of the Big Data components and also the first Apache 2.0 licensed version of Kettle. The 4.3 Pre Release builds are available on SourceForge.net.

Pentaho Hadoop Node Distribution (PHD) - The PHD is a packaging of Kettle that allows Kettle Transforms to run on the Hadoop cluster. It must be installed on each node in the cluster. Note: We are currently working to remove the requirement for the PHD before the release of 4.3.0 Stable. At that time, the Kettle engine and it's resources will be automatically distributed to the nodes in the cluster. Download the version for your platform:

Release Candidate

• The Release Candidate of Kettle 4.3 is anticipated by the third week in February

Stable

• The Stable build of Kettle 4.3 is currently planned for the end of March. The actual date is fluid and depends on stability and quality testing

Continuous Integration Builds

The CI server builds are the latest builds of the latest code checked in. They are developer builds and should only be used if you want to try out the latest bleeding edge features and fixes. Never use a CI build for production.

• Kettle main: http://ci.pentaho.com/view/Data%20Integration/
• Kettle 4.3 with Big Data Components: http://ci.pentaho.com/view/Data%20Integration/job/pentaho-big-data-plugin/
• Pentaho Hadoop Node Distribution (PHD): http://ci.pentaho.com/job/phd/