Thomas Risberg

Thomas Risberg

Currently focusing on cloud native apps and functions. I also worked on "Spring Cloud Data Flow", "Spring for Apache Hadoop" and "Spring Data JDBC Extensions" projects.

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Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1.0.M3 Released

Releases | December 18, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce the third milestone release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1. The release is now available in the Spring IO repository

We have worked on improving the YARN and data store writers. There are also new @Configuration changes and improvements to the Boot auto configuration features. See the full changelog for more details.

Beginning with the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1 version, we now only support Hadoop 2.0 APIs and no longer provide backwards compatibility with older Hadoop v1 distributions. If you need support for older Hadoop versions please use the 2.0.4 or 1.1.…

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.4 Released

Releases | December 16, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.4 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and enhancements to the HDFS writers and partitioning features. We have also added support for Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 and Cloudera CDH has been updated to version 5.2.0. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1.0.M2 Released

Releases | November 14, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1. The release is now available in the Spring IO repository

There are lots of version upgrades for the 2.1.0.M2 release: Spring Framework 4.1.2, Spring Boot 1.2.0.RC1 and more. See the full changelog for more details.

We updated the Kite SDK dataset support to 0.17.0 and this means there are some changes to the API. The use of a namespace in addition to the basePath is now mandatory. The DatasetTemplate now also uses ViewCallbacks instead of a partition expression for querying the data.

Beginning with the…

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 Released

Releases | November 03, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and updates some dependency versions. The dependencies are updated to match the next 1.0.3 release of the Spring IO platform. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

In this release, we are adding support for Apache Hadoop 2.5.1 (hadoop25) and Pivotal HD 2.1 (phd21).

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1.0.M1 Released

Engineering | September 08, 2014 | ...

One year ago we released the first milestone release of the Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 project, just in time for SpringOne 2GX 2013. To keep up the tradition, we are pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1, just in time for SpringOne 2GX 2014 in Dallas, TX. The release is now available in the Spring IO repository

Main changes for the 2.1.0.M1 release:

  • Added support for append mode in store writers
  • Enhancements for kerberos configuration for secured cluster access
  • Support for container grouping and clustering in Spring YARN, which brings functionality for running multiple container types, a new REST API and an improved application model with new client side commands and a command line shell.
  • Starting with this version we support Hadoop 2.0 APIs but no longer provide backwards compatibility with older Hadoop v1 distributions.

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1 Released

Releases | July 08, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1 has just been released and is now available from maven central and repo.spring.io. This release updates some dependency versions. The Apache Hadoop 2.4 support (hadoop24) is updated to use version 2.4.1. The Spring Framework version is updated to 4.0.6.RELEASE, Spring Batch updated to 3.0.1.RELEASE and Spring Boot updated to 1.1.4.RELEASE.

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 is now GA

Releases | June 11, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 is now GA.


Providing support for Hadoop v2.0 and YARN while maintaining compatibility with Hadoop v1.0


It's been well over a year since Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 was released. Spring was part of VMware at that time. Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 supported Hadoop 1.0.4 and 1.1.1 but not the latest 2.0 alpha versions. A lot has changed since then. Spring is now part of Pivotal which brings us together with a great portfolio of open source technologies. The Apache Hadoop project has released several new versions of Hadoop…

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 RC4 released

Releases | May 27, 2014 | ...

We are happy to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 RC4 is now available.


Now includes simplified support for building YARN applications


We are getting close to a GA release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0. Based on feedback from using the Spring Boot support for YARN in the Spring XD project, we have refined the programming model we use for developing YARN applications.

The challenge

We keep challenging Janne to make the model simpler. The latest challenge was to make it possible to write a single Java source file plus one configuration file and keep it under 50 lines. I…

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 RC3 released

Releases | May 05, 2014 | ...

We are happy to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 RC3 has just been released.


Now includes support for the latest Hadoop distributions - Pivotal HD 2.0, Cloudera CDH5 and Hortonworks HDP 2.1


Other than version upgrades, the changes in this version revolve around partitioning support for writing datasets SHDP-327.

The main focus for Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 is to add YARN application development support in addition to continue to provide improvements in the HDFS and MapReduce support. You can see many of these new YARN features in use in the YARN samples and in the new Spring IO Guides

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 RC2 released

Releases | April 02, 2014 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 has reached the Release Candidate stage. The latest release is 2.0.0.RC2. We are moving closer to the GA release, so this is a good time to give this new 2.0 version a try.


The spring-yarn framework makes it easier for you to develop Spring based applications that can be deployed to run on Hadoop v2 using YARN


The main focus for Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 is to add YARN application development support in addition to continue to provide improvements in the HDFS and MapReduce support. You can see many of these new YARN features in use in the YARN samples and we will be publishing new Spring IO Guides

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