After about two months of work on 58 tickets by 11 contributors, the Apache Hop community is pleased to announce the general availability of Apache Hop 2.12.0.

A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible.

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Let's take a closer look at what Hop 2.12 brings:

or download Hop 2.12.0 right away.

Apache Hop 2.12.0 is mostly a bug fixing release, with a couple of new features.

Variable resolvers

Variable resolvers are a new concept in Apache Hop. They allow you to resolve variable values in a consistent way across all metadata objects.

Apache Hop includes three variable resolver types:

  • Pipeline variable resolver

  • Hashicorp Vault variable resolver

  • Google Secret Manager variable resolver

Variable resolvers

Various improvements

  • REST connection metadata type improvements

  • a new Impala database type and dialect

  • the Text File Output transform now supports a rounding type for numbers

  • improved syntax highlighting for SQL and scripting transforms

Community

The Hop community continues to grow!

The overview below shows the community growth compared to the 2.11.0 release in December:

  • LinkedIn: 2.847 followers (up from 2.545) follow

  • Twitter/X: 956 followers (up from 949) follow

  • YouTube: 1.320 subscribers (up from 1.280) subscribe

Without community interaction and contribution, Hop is just a coding club! Please feel free to join, participate in the discussion, test, file bug tickets on the software or documentation, …​ Contributing is a lot more than writing code.

Check out our contribution guides and Code of Conduct to find out more.

GitHub Issues

This release contains work on 58 tickets by 11 contributors, including 1 new contributor:

Check out the full list of issues in Apache Hop 2.12.0 in our Github Issues and the Release notes.