The Apache Hop team aims to create a new release every 2 to 3 months.

Here are a few directions that we want to explore for the future of our software:

  • Authentication and authorization plugins for various security providers
  • VFS:
    • Integration with authentication for the VFS plugins, allow VFS configurations per project (instead of the current global Apache Hop configurations)
    • S3 compatible object store support through updated AWS libs
  • Integrate with graph databases as a plugin type similar to the existing database plugins
  • Creation of a ‘hop’ command with sub-commands
  • Set up a software marketplace where 3rd party plugins can be found
  • Finish conversion of all plugins to generic XML serialization to allow for JSON/YAML/… metadata serialization of pipelines and workflows
  • Pluggable field expressions in transforms and actions
  • Integration with Apache Airflow both in Airflow and as a new Workflow engine plugin
  • Infrastructure and project environment validation
  • MongoDB: API update to support Atlas
  • Improved monitoring and logging, integrations with the leading logging and monitoring platforms
  • A new docker/k8s pipeline/workflow engine