2.4.1 : first milestone release ready

[MattCasters]

Dear Kettle developer, tester, partner & enthousiast!

We've put Pentaho Data Integration version 2.4.1-M1 up for grabs over here: http://www.javaforge.com/displayDocu...p?doc_id=27609

This first milestone release includes many changes among which:

• a long list of bug-fixes (around 50, keep those bugs coming!)
• VFS support (http://www.ibridge.be/?p=33)
• Advanced error handling for JS, Table Output and Update steps (http://www.ibridge.be/?p=32)
• Buttons added to the database explorer
• Limit size of logs in Spoon to max 5000 lines (configurable default)
• Job entries: "Create File", "Delete File" and "Wait for file", all by Sven
• Job entry: "SFT Put" (put file on remote FTP server), by Joerg Kurzend
• Job entry: "BulkLoad into MySQL", by Samatar Hassan
• Step: WSDL lookup: first core implementation
• Lots of i18n fixes and documentation updates and contributions in several languages.

The mirroring partitioning method that was also planned for M1 was delayed for M2.

For M2 we have an estimated time of arrival of March 5th and this is scheduled to contain among other things:

• Remote Job Execution
• Improve Filing of Bug Reports
• WSDL Plugin: cleanup, improvements (read: make it useable)
• PALO code integration (Depending on Tripple-A-Strategies support)
• Mirroring Partitioning Method
• Scheduler Integration

Beyond that, we'll probably extend upon the error handling features we implemented in M1 in M2.

Note: We are planning an RC1 on March 19 and a GA release on April 1st. So far everything looks like we're going to make those dates as well.

All the best,

Matt

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Just for clarity: this is not a production or GA release, this is a milestone release. You should not use this software in a production