• Upgrade SQL Server connector
• Upgrade Spark to 3.3.4
• Upgrade Spark to 3.4.4
• Upgrade Spark to 3.5.5

Version 1.3.2 - 2025-02-07

• Fix documentation of SQL mapping
• Fix skipping of execution targets with "update" mode
• Use UTF-8 for pushing metrics to Prometheus

This actually is more a maintenance release for supporting an updated Cloudera version:

• github-510: Upgrade Cloudera Spark 3.3 build profile

• github-465: (backport) Fix parsing of Swagger schema files

• github-496: updated build profile for CDP 7.1.9 platform version

Version 1.2.0 - 2024-04-03

• github-464: Upgrade Cloudera CDP 7.1 to Hotfix 16
• github-465: Fix parsing of Swagger schema files
• github-447: Support Spark 3.5.0
• github-444: Remove Flowman Hub
• github-443: Remove Flowman DSL
• github-466: Use frontend-maven-plugin for all npm packages
• github-467: Implement "target_records" metric for "copy" target
• github-474: Remove Flowman Studio
• github-480: Upgrade Spark to 3.5.1
• github-481: Fix Sphinx documentation

Version 1.1.0 - 2023-10-10

• github-413: Support Azure Key Vault for retrieving secrets
• github-415: Improve documentation for Velocity templating
• github-361: Remove broken support for Databricks
• github-402: Support Spark 3.4
• github-417: Fix URL to flowman.io in all Maven modules
• github-416: Support specifying multiple targets separated by commas on CLI
• github-414: Support AWS Secrets Manager for retrieving secrets
• github-419: Add a command line option to kernel server to listen on specific address
• github-326: Truncate target graphs at sinks
• github-410: Support relative paths in project imports
• github-421: Provide new 'session' environment variable
• github-422: Upgrade Spark to 3.4.1
• github-423: Migrating a MariaDB/MySQL table from a text type to a numeric type fails
• github-425: Support building and running Flowman with Java 17
• github-388: Replace Akka http with Jersey/Jetty in Flowman History Server
• github-385: Update Flowman Tutorial
• github-412: Create tutorial for using Flowman Maven Plugin
• github-371: Automate EMR integration test via AWS CLI
• github-431: Update EMR build profil to 6.12
• github-428: Move project selector into top bar in Flowman History Server
• github-433: Add Trino JDBC driver as plugin
• github-434: Use sshj instead of ganymed for sftp
• github-435: Flowman should also load a project.yaml (with an 'a' in the extension)
• github-436: Document minimum Maven version of Flowman-maven-plugin
• github-438: Empty or non-existing module directories should not lead to an error
• github-452: [BUG] SQL assertions do not support empty strings as expected values
• github-450: Update Spark to 3.3.3
• github-454: Fix scope of netty-codec
• github-446: Fix deadlock when running targets in parallel

Breaking changes

This version introduces some (minor) breaking changes:

• When providing sample records (for example, via the values mapping, or in the expected outcome of sql assertions),
  empty strings will be interpreted as empty strings. Older versions interpreted empty strings as SQL NULL values. In
  case you still need a NULL value, you can simply use the YAML null value.

Flowman Version 1.0.0 !

Flowman has proven to be robust and is used in production at multiple companies since several years. Time to officially celebrate its success with a version 1.0.0!

This is a huge and exciting release with many improvements. The main features are:

• The Flowman 1.0.0 release. But making such a release is more work than one might expect.
• New client/server Flowman shell to support accessing real data during development. This feature is still experimental.
• Official support for Azure Synapse

Full list of changes

• github-314: Move avro related functionality into separate plugin
• github-307: Describe Flowmans security policy in SECURITY.md
• github-315: Create build profile for CDP 7.1 with Spark 3.3
• github-317: Perform retry on failing JDBC commands
• github-318: Support mappings from different projects and with non-standard outputs in SQL
• github-140: Strictly check imports
• github-316: Beautify README.md
• github-310: Explain versioning policy in CHANGELOG.md
• github-313: Improve example for "observe" mapping
• github-319: Support Oracle for History Server
• github-320: Do not fall back to "inline" schema when no kind is specified
• github-321: [BUG] Properly support lower case / upper case table names in Oracle
• github-309: Automate integration tests
• github-322: Remove flowman-client
• github-324: Log environment variables for imported projects
• github-329: Create Kernel API
• github-330: Implement Kernel Server
• github-331: Implement Kernel Client
• github-332: Build Flowman Shell on top of kernel Client/Server
• github-334: Create standalone Flowman Kernel application
• github-338: Update Spark to 3.3.2
• github-333: Forward Logs from Kernel to Client
• github-339: Set Copyright to "The Flowman Authors"
• github-345: [BUG] Loading an embedded schema inside a jar file should not throw an exception
• github-346: Create build profile for Databricks
• github-343: Log all client requests in kernel
• github-342: Automatically close session when the client disconnects from kernel
• github-351: [BUG] Failing execution listener instantiation should not fail a build
• github-347: Exclude AWS SDK for Databricks and EMR build profiles
• github-352: [BUG] Spark sessions should not contain duplicate jars from different plugins
• github-353: Successful runs should not use System.exit(0)
• github-354: Optionally load custom log4j config from jar
• github-358: Provide different log4j config for Flowman server and kernel
• github-359: Update jline dependency
• github-357: Spark session should not be shut down in Databricks environment
• github-360: Logging should exclude more Databricks specific stuff
• github-361: Work around low-level API differences in DataBricks
• github-363: HiveDatabaseTarget should accept an optional location
• github-311: Create integration test for EMR
• github-362: Upgrade EMR to 6.10
• github-369: [BUG] Prevent endless loop in Kernel client, when getContext fails
• github-370: The Kernel client should use temporary workspaces with automatic cleanup
• github-337: Add documentation for flowman-rshell
• github-336: Add documentation for flowman-kernel
• github-366: Feature parity between Flowman shell and Flowman remote shell
• github-365: Implement saving mappings in Flowman Kernel/client
• github-367: Create integration test for "quickstart" archetype
• github-375: [BUG] "project reload" does not work correctly in remote shell with nested directories
• github-376: Document options to parallelize work
• github-378: Remove travis-ci integration
• github-308: Revise branching model
• github-381: Remove json-smart dependency
• github-382: [BUG] Parallel execution of multiple dq checks runs too many checks on Java 17
• github-384: Improve documentation for using docker-compose
• github-377: Load override config/env from .flowman-env.yml
• github-344: Support .flowman-ignore file for Flowman Kernel client
• github-385: Update Flowman tutorial
• github-386: Create Integration Test for Azure Synapse
• github-387: Remove scala-arm dependency
• github-390: Rename "master" branch to "main"
• github-392: [BUG] 'relation' mapping should support numeric partition values
• github-393: Move Maven archetype to flowman-maven project
• github-394: [BUG] The Spark job group and description are not set for sql assertions
• github-395: Support optional file locations for project imports
• github-397: Automate build using GitHub actions
• github-403: Upgrade Spark 3.2 to 3.2.4
• github-404: [BUG] Partition columns do not support Timestamp data type
• github-409: [BUG] Fix build for AWS EMR 6.10 and Azure Synapse 3.3
• github-407: Update Delta to 2.3.0 for Spark 3.3
• github-406: Improve integration tests to automatically pick up the current Flowman version
• github-408: Make use of DeltaLake in Synapse integration test
• github-405: Document deployment to EMR and Azure Synapse

Breaking changes

This version introduces some (minor) breaking changes:

• All Avro related functionality is now moved into the new "flowman-avro" plugin. If you rely on such functionality,
  you explicitly need to include the plugin in the default-namesapce.yml file.
• Imports are now strictly checked. This means when you cross-reference some entity in your project which is provided
  by a different Flowman project, you now need to explicitly import the project in the project.yml
• The kind for schema definitions is now a mandatory attribute, Flowman will not fall back to a inline schema anymore.

This is a maintenance release of the 0.30 version with two bug fixes:

• github-379: [BUG] Parallel execution of multiple targets runs too many targets on Java 17
• github-383: Flowman should preserve target ordering