Cascading 2.2

We are happy to announce that Cascading 2.2 is now publicly available for download.

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Cascading 2.2 includes a number of new features and updates:

What’s New in Cascading 2.2

– First class support for field level type information used by the planner

– Pluggable API for custom type coercion on custom types

– Support for blocks of Java “scripts” in addition to expressions

– AssemblyPlanner interface to allow for platform independent generative Flow planning

– Optional CombinedInputFormat support to improve handling with lots of small files

– Added FirstNBuffer and updated Unique to leverage it for faster performance

– MaxValue and MinValue Aggregators to allow for max/min on Comparable types, not just numbers

What’s Improved in Cascading 2.2

– Updated relevant operations to optionally honor SQL like semantics with regard to NULL values

– Updated SubAssembly to support setting local and step properties via the ConfigDef interface

– Updated FlowDef to accept classpath elements for dynamic inclusion of Hadoop jobs

– Updated GlobHfs to minimize resource and CPU usage

For more details on new features and resolved issues see:

https://github.com/Cascading/cascading/blob/2.2/CHANGES.txt