[ANNOUNCE] Apache Hop (Incubating) 1.0 released

[Bart Maertens <ba...@apache.org>]

After more than two years of work, the Apache Hop PPMC and community are pleased to announce the general availability of Apache Hop (Incubating) 1.0. This 1.0 release is the result of a massive amount of work by the Apache Hop community.

The Hop Orchestration Platform, or Apache Hop (Incubating), aims to facilitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration.
Hop is an entirely new open source data integration platform that is easy to use, fast and flexible.
Hop aims to be the future of data integration. Visual development enables developers to be more productive than they can be through code. Our Design once, run anywhere workflows and pipelines can be designed in te Hop Gui and run on the Hop native engine (local or remote), or on Spark, Flink, Google Dataflow or AWS EMR through Beam. Lifecycle Management enables developers and administrators to switch between projects, environments and purposes without leaving your train of thought.

A number of highlights in the 1.0 release are: 
- Code Architecture, cleanup, refactoring
- Hop GUI and a uniform set of tools
- Projects and Environments
- Portable runtimes: design once, run anywhere
- Unit, Integration and Regression Testing
- Life cycle management
- Community growth

The release is available for immediate download at:

https://hop.apache.org/download/

For more details please take a look at the release announcement at:

https://hop.apache.org/blog/2021/10/hop-1.0.0/


Thanks to all involved,
Bart

Disclaimer: Apache Hop is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. Apache Hop, Apache, Hop, the Hop logo, and the Apache feather logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other products or name brands are trademarks of their respective holders, including The Apache Software Foundation.