[ANNOUNCE] Apache Beam 2.7.0 released!

[Charles Chen <cc...@apache.org>]

The Apache Beam team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.0!

Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and
execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream
(continuous) processing. See https://beam.apache.org

You can download the release here:

        https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/

This release includes the following major new features & improvements,
among others:
- New KuduIO, Amazon SNS sink, Amazon SqsIO,
- Dependencies upgraded to new versions.
- Experimental support for Python on local Flink runner for simple examples.
- Various bugfixes and minor improvements.

You can take a look at the Release Notes for more details:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12343654

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, and we hope you enjoy
using Beam 2.7.0.
--
Charles Chen, on behalf of The Apache Beam team