[ANNOUNCE] Apache Streams 0.4.1-incubating release

[Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>]

The Apache Streams team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Streams 0.4.1-incubating.

Sources are now available from Apache mirrors (
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/streams/relea
ses/0.4.1-incubating/ ) and binaries are now available from the apache
maven repository ( http://repository.apache.org/ ) and maven central (
http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache
.streams%22%20v%3A%220.4.1-incubating%22 )

Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and
online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these
datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms
for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.

The project aims to provide simple two-way data interchange with popular
REST APIs in activity streams formats using a universal protocol. Streams
compatibility with multiple storage back-ends and ability to be embedded
within any java-based real-time or batch data processing platform ensures
that its interoperability features come with little technical baggage.

0.4.1-incubating is a maintenance release focused on code, documentation,
style and test improvements. Several highlights include adoption of the
google java code style and databricks scala code style, switch from JUnit
to TestNG for integration tests, elimination of guava transitive dependency
from most modules, and removal of non-apache hadoop dependencies from all
modules.

0.4.1-incubating also contains bug fixes and additional flexibility in the
facebook, instagram, twitter, and youtube provider modules.

More details on Apache Streams can be found at:

http://streams.incubator.apache.org/

Thanks to all the contributors who made the release possible, and encourage
anyone interested in using or contributing to the project to join the dev
mailing list ( mailto:dev-subscribe@streams.incubator.apache.org )


Regards,

Apache Streams (incubating) Community

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DISCLAIMER

Apache Streams is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache

Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC.

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.