On behalf of the Spring Cloud Data Flow team, I am pleased to announce the 1.0.0.RC1 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN allows one to use all the goodness of Spring Cloud Data Flow (like the Shell and UI) while targeting Apache YARN as a backend. Stream components are deployed as individual apps in Apache YARN, leveraging the power of the platform to handle scaling and health monitoring.

This first release candicate

• Adds several improvements to launching of short-lived applications a.k.a tasks to Apache YARN
• Builds upon Spring StateMachine 1.1.0.RELEASE that includes new features, stability, and API improvements
• Adds support to configure command line args as a separate set of properties to be passed to an application when it's deployed. This is an important requirement for running Spring Batch jobs
• Several Ambari plugin improvements to simplify provisioning of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s YARN server

To get started using Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN follow these steps outlined in the reference documentation.

For a complete list of changes and improvements, please refer to 1.0.0.RC1 release.