Pentaho Reporting 3.8.0 is here … says the official annoucement.

The long waiting is over. Today Pentaho announced the release of Pentaho Reporting 3.8.0 and the BI-Server 3.8.0.

This release is mainly a bug-fix release with only few new features. Over the last few months we concentrated on making this release a “god damn stable” beast. With 132 cases solved and numerous blocker-class fixes resolved, I think we reached that goal.

On the new-feature side, we still have some good things to report:

  • Report data can and will be cached now. This way, the interactive parameter display and designing reports is more responsive now.
  • The SingleValueQuery- and MultiValueQuery-Function can now be used to define dynamic default selections in parameter.
  • You can redefine the list of output types that are available for a report
  • Pentaho-Metadata datasources can now accept multi-selection parameter.
  • Our Pentaho-Metadata datasource got a new Advanced mode to calculate the query string in a expression.
  • There’s a whole bunch of new barcode-types available.
  • LibLoader is more aggressive on caching data from HTTP connections. So even if your service does everything wrong when it comes to cache-headers, we will handle that gracefully now. And best of all: In most cases you can “just use it(tm)”. You don’t need to configure a single bit.
  • Thanks to KSK Solutions in Japan, we now have a Japanese translation for the Pentaho Report Designer
  • There is a experimental CDA datasource now. It works, even though it is still a bit flaky in Edit-Mode in the Report Designer.

Now the release is done, and there is only one thing left to do: Doug, please, please upload the product to SourceForge quickly, so that everyone can download it.

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After working as all-hands guy and lead developer on Pentaho Reporting for over an decade, I have learned a thing or two about report generation, layouting and general BI practices. I have witnessed the remarkable growth of Pentaho Reporting from a small niche product to a enterprise class Business Intelligence product. This blog documents my own perspective on Pentaho Reporting's development process and our our steps towards upcoming releases.

10 thoughts on “Pentaho Reporting 3.8.0 is here … says the official annoucement.

  1. Thomas Morgner

    CDA does not *ship* with a GA build. Drop the extensions-cda and datasource-editor-cda jars from either CI or from a local build into the PRD and it will pop up.

  2. dmatejka

    I think there is more people interested in this topic.. found quite a lot of questions regarding this issue and no answer.. ok…. Ill try.. 🙂

  3. Thomas Morgner

    I said: Well, file a JIRA case. If there is no JIRA case, the feature is obviously not important enough. After all, filing the case costs 5 minutes, fixing it costs hours. So why should I invest hours iv no one even spends 5 minutes.

    If that sounds harsh: Well, you are competing with everyone who has cases filed in JIRA. They think their case is important too – and they already invested the 5 minutes to create a case for it.

  4. Thomas Morgner

    Ahh, PRD-3336 is filed. Great, now we are talking.

    Next, this will be triaged by Pentaho and scheduled for a release. At the moment, the next release we are planing is 4.0.

    There may be a 3.9 release before that if there are enough bugfixes to warrant one, but my personal bets are on PRD-4.0.

  5. dmatejka

    waw.. thank you so much for a quick response.. guess I’ll have to change the colors manually till 4.0
    and BIG THANK YOU for 3.8 – saved my hair when solving the issue of subreport’s element color defined be the field of the query.

  6. dmatejka

    and .. not willing to spend 5 minutes was not my case – as I have spend several days looking for the solution.. I just was not sure if I”m not missing something and did not want to pollute your JIRA with my “maybe misunderstood” issues. Moreover I was not sure I can do it properly – it was my first JIRA case 🙂 – Just to explain. I can not even say how much I appreciate all your amazing hard work

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