New features

• issue #243 : add OpenCsvRecordMarshaller
• issue #242 : add XmlRecordValidator
• issue #241 : add option to activate/deactivate recursivity in FileRecordReader

Bug fixes

• issue #238 : FlatFileRecordReader should not throw a FileNotFoundException at construction time

Enhancements and API changes

• issue #236 : add constructor with java.nio.file.Path in FileRecordReader
• issue #239 : add constructor with java.nio.file.Path in FileRecordWriter
• issue #240 : add constructor with java.nio.file.Path in FlatFileRecordReader
• issue #244 : ApacheCommonCsvRecord is redundant
• issue #245 : ApacheCommonCsvRecordReader is redundant
• issue #246 : ApacheCommonCsvRecordMapper should be configurable with field names

Major changes

• issue #211 : Inconsistent Batch API
• issue #233 : Inconsistent RecordReader API
• issue #223 : Inconsistent RecordWriter API
• issue #227 : Inconsistent RecordDispatcher API
• issue #221 : Resource management should be handled by the framework
• issue #222 : Transaction management should be handled by the framework
• issue #230 : JobExecutor should use an ExecutorService
• issue #220 : Adapt listeners to batch processing workflow

New features

• issue #224 : Add RetryableRecordReader
• issue #225 : Add RetryableRecordWriter
• issue #226 : Add CompositeRecordWriter

Enhancements

• issue #234 : RecordFieldExtractor is poorly named
• issue #235 : BeanRecordFieldExtractor is poorly named

Fixed bugs

• issue #170 : Unable to determine number of filtered record from batch
• issue #204 : Unnecessary generic type in BeanValidationRecordValidator
• issue #209 : Unnecessary generic type in BlockingQueueRecordReader / BlockingQueueRecordWriter
• issue #228 : Job executionId is not coherent
• issue #229 : Job name is not a parameter
• issue #231 : JobStatus.ABORTED is redundant
• issue #232 : Possible resource leak in XmlWrapperTagWriter

New Features

• issue #205 : Add BeanPropertiesPreparedStatementProvider
• issue #208 : add StandardErrorRecordWriter
• issue #214 : Replace "strict mode" parameter with "error threshold"

Bug Fixes

• issue #202 : Incorrect duration when unable to open the record reader
• issue #203 : Incorrect data source when unable to open the record reader
• issue #206 : Incoherent log message when filtering a batch of records
• issue #207 : Incorrect log message when unable to process a batch of records
• issue #210 : java.rmi.UnmarshalException when using the JobMonitorProxy

Deprecations

• issue #212 : "skip" parameter is redundant
• issue #213 : "silent mode" parameter is redundant
• issue #215 : "limit" parameter is redundant
• issue #216 : Job timeout should be handled by the executor
• issue #217 : Inappropriate "call" method in JobBuilder API
• issue #218 : Rename "jmx mode" parameter into "jmx monitoring" deprecation
• issue #219 : deprecate the ComputationalRecordProcessor API

New Features

• issue #123: Add support for MS Excel format using Apache POI
• issue #168: Add last error in job report
• issue #171: Add support to trim whitespace for FixedLengthRecordMapper
• issue #175: Add retry on failure for the record reader
• issue #187: Add host name to job report
• issue #196: Add JMX monitoring push notifications
• issue #198: BlockingQueueRecordReader should be configurable with the number of poison records received

Fixed bugs

• Issue #169: When Reader fails Job Listeners are not being invoked
• Issue #191: NumberFormatException in IntegerTypeConverter

Enhancements and API changes

• issue #186: inconsistent BlockingQueue record reader/writer APIs
• issue #190: JobMonitor should not be public
• issue #193: Data source name of blocking queue is too long
• issue #194: Improve JUL log record format
• issue #195: Not appropriate JobReportMerger and DefaultJobReportMerger API package
• issue #199: Add utility method to check if a record is a poison record

Major changes

• issue #136 : Redesign the workflow into a consistent pipeline
• issue #160 : Improve workflow consistency
• issue #137 : Unify Handlers and Listeners
• issue #142 : Introduce JobParameters and JobMetrics
• issue #141 : Rename Engine to Job
• issue #154 : Rename MultiRecord to Batch
• issue #148 : Migrate to Java 7

Features

• issue #162 : Add PayloadExtractor
• issue #157 : Add BatchProcessor
• issue #156 : Add BatchValidator
• issue #153 : Add BatchFilter
• issue #152 : Add BatchMapper
• issue #151 : Add BatchMarshaller
• issue #131 : Add JpaBatchWriter
• issue #130 : Add HibernateBatchWriter
• issue #161 : Add JmsPoisonMessageBroadcaster
• issue #158 : Add JmsRecord dispatchers
• issue #147 : Add JMS queue/connection listeners
• issue #144 : Add FAILED job status
• issue #143 : Add JobExecutor
• issue #133 : Add RecordProcessingTimeListener
• issue #132 : Add "timeout" parameter
• issue #129 : Add "keep alive" parameter
• issue #120 : Add EmptyRecordFilter
• issue #159 : Add method to register a record dispatcher in the job builder API
• issue #138 : Add method to register a record marshaller in the job builder API
• issue #135 : Add BlockingQueueRecordWriter

Enhancements

• issue #150 : Use varargs instead of arrays in mapper constructor
• issue #155 : Rename JmsRecordWriter to JmsQueueRecordWriter
• issue #149 : Rename JmsRecordReader to JmsQueueRecordReader
• issue #146 : Rename CliRecordReader to StandardInputRecordReader
• issue #145 : Rename QueueRecordReader to BlockingQueueRecordReader
• issue #140 : Remove ListRecordReader, deprecated in V3.0
• issue #139 : Remove commit-interval from transaction listeners
• issue #134 : Remove redundant generic type declaration in ObjectMapper

Bug fixes

• issue #126 : ApacheCommonsCsv prints a header for each line
• issue #125 : Skipped records are not calculated in the merged report

• Added the "skip" parameter (issue #77)
• Added the "limit" parameter (issue #78)
• Added record writers: OutputStream (issue #79), JPA (issue #80), MongoDB (issue #82), JDBC (issue #83), JMS (issue #85), Collection (issue #106), String (issue #109)
• Added Hibernate support: new HibernateRecordReader and HibernateRecordWriter APIs (issue #81)
• Added XmlRecordCompactor and JsonRecordCompactor to flatten hierarchical data (issue #86)
• Added IterableRecordReader and deprecated ListRecordReader (issue #88)
• Added RecordCollector (issue #89)
• Added record marshallers: Xstream (issue #94), Xml (issue #95), Delimited (issue #96), FixedLength (issue #97), ApacheCommonCsv (issue #98), Gson (issue #99), Jackson (issue #100)
• Added multi-record readers to support chunk processing (issue #87): Flat files, Iterable, String, File, Xml, Json, JPA, Apache Common Csv, Hibernate, MongoDB
• Added multi-record writers: Collection (issue #110), File (issue #111), OutputStream (issue #112), StandardOutput (issue #113), String (issue #115), JDBC (issue #116)
• Added GenericMultiRecordMapper (issue #101)
• Implemented improvement #91: Add system properties to the execution report
• Implemented improvement #93: Make the JpaRecordReader stream records
• Implemented improvement #103: Make the ObjectMapper properly handle empty values
• Implemented improvement #119: Use CSVFormat null recordSeparator to skip new line creation
• Merged PR #117: Add RecordFieldExtractor
• Merged PR #118: Add lineSeparator parameter to OutputStreamRecordWriter