Apache Beam 2.28.0 Release Highlights and New Features
Apache Beam 2.28.0 introduces extensive Parquet support, new hash functions in BeamSQL and ZetaSQL, ApproximateDistinct via HLL, enhanced I/O connectors including SpannerIO for Numeric fields, ParquetIO schema support, KafkaTableProvider thrift, HadoopFormatIO key/value cloning skip, and various other improvements.