Overview

This is a minor patch release to address product defects and incorporate a number of community contributions.

Release Version

This will be the Pentaho Data Integration Release 2.5

A - Feature Committed | B - Stretch | C - Have Design Posted for Community | D - Not Committed

Feature	Description	Developer	Dev Status
Implement VFS file loading framework	To allow for better integration into the Pentaho platform, we want VFS in PDI, in as many places as possible. We will start by going for the Transformation and Job XML loaders because they will be referencing the solutions repository.	Matt	A (M1)
Database Explorer Enahancements	Visualize a number of functions hidden under the right-click context menus (toolbar, menu, etc)	Matt	A (M1)
Limit Log File Size	Make sure Spoon doesn't run out of memory while handling large logging amounts	Matt	A (M1)
Mirroring Partitioning Method	Allow data to be written to multiple db partitions	Matt	D (M2?)
Remote Job Execution	Provide the ability to execute a Job Remotely	Matt	D (M2?)
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) Plugin		Jaime Madrid (Bodet)	A (M2)
PALO Plugin Code Integration	Parts of the "Tripple-A" Palo plugin have to be integrated into trunk	Matt/3A	C (M2?)
Improved Error Management	Allow "error" hops to be drawn which will contain all the rows for which the step failed.	Sven/Matt	A (M1)
Scheduler Integration	Make simple schedulurer functionality in Carte	Matt/Sven	B
Bug fixes	There will be lots of those.	Community	A
Other new stuff & contributions	Job entries: "Create File", "Delete File" and "Wait for file", all by Sven (M1) Job entry: "SFT Put" (put file on remote FTP server), by Joerg Kurzend (M1) Job entry: "BulkLoad into MySQL", by Samatar Hassan (M1) Caching for "Dimension lookup/update", by Matt (M2)	Community	A

Milestones - old - link to the old table used to capture initial thoughts/status on milestones.