Apache Hop 2.17 is available!!

We have reached around 70% translated, this brings Portuguese (Brazil) support on par with other official languages in the application. I would like to thank everyone that has worked on these translations.

Current languages without Beta label:

If you want to contribute to translations read our guide

You now have direct access to your project files while working on your pipelines. This way you no longer have to switch physical views to open project files. We have also added a search function to quickly find files in a larger project.

The project and environments buttons have been moved to the bottom toolbar and are using a new view to make it all a bit less cluttered.

The properties panel has had a major overhaul, all options have been: reviewed, renamed and tested. We have added an overview that will show you all shortcuts that are available in the application.

You can now open PDF files directly inside the UI, when pressing the Help button the page will open inside a new tab inside the UI.

When running a pipeline and encountering an error the logging lines related to that error will now be shown in red, this also applies to console output using our command line tools.

This feature does not work in Hop Web.
When we write error lines to the console we detect if it is being printed or being used by an other command, if it is used by an other command we remove the control characters to set the colors. This can also be managed with the HOP_CONSOLE_COLORS environment variable.

Valid Values:
true - Always use ANSI color codes in console output
false - Never use color codes (disables coloring)
auto - (Default) Auto-detect whether to use colors based on the output destination

You can use variables in a lot of locations inside Apache Hop, what wasn’t that obvious is that we also have checkboxes that can be changed with a variable. You can now clearly see which checkboxes have variable support and where to enter the variable.

The database lookup transform has received a new lay-out with tabs, making it less clunky.

The dropdowns in the Select values transform will now reflect the changes done in previous tabs. It will only show fields that have been selected in the "Select & Alter" tab and use correct field names in the "Remove" and "Meta-Data" tab

An option has been added to allow the git repository to be in a parent folder of the project you are working on. This can be enabled via settings → git → search parent folders for git repository.

When a file is already under version control and a change has been made to the file it will be automatically staged.

The git information panel now has color highlighting for the git diff that is being shown.