Introduction
One of the main changes in version 4 of Pentaho Data Integration is the introduction of alternate repositorytypes. Because of this major change, the API of PDI changed a little bit with respect to your plugins. This document describes how you can quickly modify your plugins to work on PDI v4. Modifying a step or job entry plugin shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.
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It was rather incorrect (bug) not to pass along the list of databases references in stead of loading a new object from the repository. Especially when you rename a database this has negative consequences.
i18n changes
With respect to internationalization you can replace all instances of
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- Log separation between objects (transformations, jobs, ...…) on the same server
- Central logging store infrastructure with central memory management
- Logging data lineage so we know where each log row comes from
- Incremental log updates from the central log store
- Error line identification to allow for color coding
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