Talend Open Studio 2.1.0 Release Candidate is now available! This version contains all the features of Talend Open Studio 2.1.0 and I am inviting all our community members to try it and track all problems that might still exist in this version before its release.

The numerous new features of Talend Open Studio 2.1.0 include:

- integration with other Open Source platforms such as SpagoBI (business intelligence) or Spagic (SOA)

- further optimizations for performance increase

- support of new databases (including bulk load)

- transaction management (connection sharing, commit and rollback)

- Slowly Changing Dimensions support

- MOM (Message Oriented Middleware) support for real-time integration jobs

- fuzzy logic data matching (using the Levenshtein and metaphone algorithms)

- normalization, denormalization and flow merge

- support of SSH remote connections

- support of PGP file decryption (through GPG binary)

- reinforced support of the XML standard: DTD validation, XSD, XSLT transformation, significant improvements in hierarchical XML file generation, support of the XMLRPC Web Services protocol…

- improvements to the tMap component, to support input filters and new joins types such (the cartesian product, first match, last match…)

The download is available at http://www.talend.com/download.php. The community tools (Forum, Bugtracker, Changed Log, Wiki, Subversion, Trac, Flash tutorials…) are available at http://www.talendforge.org.

Fabrice