Scio 0.8.1 released

[Shameera Rathnayaka]

Hi all,

We just released Scio 0.8.1. This release depends on beam 2.18.0 and includes a few new features, bug fixes and improvements.

Scio release - https://github.com/spotify/scio/releases/tag/v0.8.1

The matching spotify-scio release version is 0.8.1-lib325

"Bombarda Maxima"

Features

• Update Beam to 2.18 (#2631)
• Add BigQuery Geography support (#2620)
• Add simple sorter method (#2542)
• Add Avro BigQuery logical types conversion (#2602)

Bug fixes & improvements

• Add Map/MultiMap singleton side input, fix #2628 (#2629)
• Fix ClassCastEx in PubSubIO (#2583)
• Fix sharded Sparkey side input with missing values. (#2617)
• Add specialized coders for Elasticsearch, fix #2626 (#2637)
• Make KryoAtomicCoder.instanceId an incrementing integer, not a UUID (#2589)
• Fix BigQuery caching, by using dry-run when extracting tables (#2613)
• Fix recursive coders (#2605)
• Avoid NPE when finding rt.jar under jdk11 (#2610)
• More tests on Coders (#2639)
• Consolidate IT mock data generation (#2624)
• Fix sql script query generator
• Avro Message record from scio-schemas could hide protobuf Message (#2609)
• Rename metricsLocation option parameter (#2603)
• Add comment on scio-extra support level
• Add test case for avro conversion with bytes (#2594)
• Add lisp-case arg parsing removal (#2592) (#2221)
• Remove unused ClassTag (#2590)
• Fix BigQuery deprecated method message (#2586)
• Add scalafmt to scalafix rules (#2491), rename join names (#2455), rename named args: that to rhs (#2468)
• Fix BigQuery deprecated method message (#2586)
• Add elasticsearch example (#2388)
• Remove mdoc annotation for macro-based Parquet.md examples (#2581)
• Update doc and migration guides (#2585)
• Use weakTypeOf in scio-bigquery (#2641)
• Drop FastEval in scio-sql (#2622)

Thanks to all contributors!

Cheers,

Shameera.