Pentaho 6.1 (EE and CE) is available
Amazing. Every single release is the same. I know months in advance what the release date is. And every-single-f’in-time I’m always able to somehow mess up the dates and end up with one of those “what do you mean it’s tomorrow??” situations….
Oh well. It’s done. And I need to sleep.
Anyway. This is, by far, the best release so far! This blog post only touches the overview, but there are absolutely amazing details that I’ll focus on later
Pentaho 6.1 (EE and CE) is available
You can get it from the usual places:
- Pentaho 6.1 EE from the main website
- Pentaho 6.1 CE from the community website
Here are some of the main changes:
Data Services improvements
On to my favorite topic – Data services. As I mentioned before, with data services we can expose any point of our transformation as a virtual / umaterialized table that can be accessed from the outside through a jdbc interface.
This will be key to us going forward, and we’re improving on this topic
Data services with auto-modeling & Analyzer (EE)
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Build model – Data services edition |
Parameter push down optimization (CE/EE)
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Parameter push down optimization |
Data services supported 2 types of optimizations as of 6.0:
- Cache optimization
- Query pushdown, that allowed passing parameters down to a table or mongodb input
Simplified JDBC driver download (EE/CE)
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Simplified driver download |
Execute transformation/job dialog improvements (EE/CE)
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Run options |
JSON step improvements (EE/CE)
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JSON step results |

Analyzer Inline modeling improvements (EE)
Edit Calculated Measures in Analyzer (EE)
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Applying calculated measure to the model |
Show and Hide Available Fields (EE)
Official CTools documentation
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CTools documentation in help.pentaho.com |
You can now learn the basics of the Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) with the CDE Quick Start Guide and its companion articles:
Metadata Injection (CE)
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Metadata Injection principles |
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List of MDI enabled steps |
Enable community testing of new platform infrastructure (CE)
- Run the BA server
- Open PDI
- Create a new repository connection – but point it to your BA server instead of a DI server…
- Connect to it
- Take a look at the repository explorer. Give yourself a moment to understand what you’re looking at
- Yep – you’re starting to understand…. Hell yeah!