Apache Texera 1.2.0-incubating

Apache Texera 1.2.0-incubating introduces new cloud-native deployment, AI-integration, and workflow features.

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What’s new in 1.2.0-incubating

Major changes include:

Cloud-native deployment

  • Added Lakekeeper as the Iceberg catalog for Kubernetes deployments (#4275).
  • Integrated the Agent Service and LiteLLM into both Kubernetes and single-node deployments (#5272, #4544).
  • Strengthened deployment security by configuring service containers to run as non-root (#4941).

AI integration

  • Expanded built-in AI capabilities with support for additional operator types (#4619).
  • Added Hugging Face model browsing and media proxy support (#5124).

Workflow engine

  • Added jump-to-operator navigation (#4444).
  • Improved workflow execution with cross-region state materialization (#4490).
  • Enhanced workflow validation to detect invalid graph structures earlier (#4956).

Performance and platform

  • Reduced database connection overhead through PostgreSQL connection pooling (#4851).
  • Upgraded backend services to Java 17 LTS (#4938).

User experience

  • Added a public dataset gallery (#5215).
  • Added compute configuration to the admin interface (#4922).
  • Improved workflow authoring and dataset management through various UI and usability enhancements.

Configuration

  • Simplified deployment configuration by separating public pre-login settings from authenticated APIs (#5305).

For the complete list of changes, see the full diff.

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Source distribution

The official source release, along with GPG signatures and SHA-512 checksums for both the source tarball and the Docker Compose deployment bundle, is published on the Apache mirrors:

https://downloads.apache.org/incubator/texera/1.2.0-incubating/

Container images

Multi-architecture (linux/amd64, linux/arm64) Docker images, all tagged 1.2.0-incubating:

  • apache/texera-dashboard-service
  • apache/texera-workflow-execution-coordinator
  • apache/texera-workflow-execution-runner
  • apache/texera-workflow-compiling-service
  • apache/texera-file-service
  • apache/texera-config-service
  • apache/texera-access-control-service
  • apache/texera-agent-service
  • apache/texera-workflow-computing-unit-managing-service

Verifying a release

All Apache Texera releases are signed by the project’s release signing keys (KEYS file). Please verify the integrity of any download before use, following the standard ASF procedures: https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html.

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