Version 1.16.0

Version 1.16.0 of Apache NiFi is a purely bug fix and security focused release.

Release Date: TBD (In RC prep/voting as of Mar 9 2022)

Highlights of the 1.16.0 release include:

• Framework Level Retry now supported.  For many years users build flows in various ways to make retries happen for a configured number of attempts.  Now this is easily and cleanly configured in the UI/API and simplifies the user experience and flow design considerably!  To those waiting for years for this thank you for your patience.
• New components to read CEF messages, easily perform geohashing on records, and to listen for SNMP traps.
• MiNiFi Java can now hot-load nars just like NiFi.
• Tons of bug fixes and improvements for processors that interact with cloud services on AWS, Azure, and GCP as well as SFTP, FTP, Kafka and more.
• Stateless NiFi getting better and better with improved classloader isolation and ability to run off local nars only.
• Security: Aggressively update libraries such as Jetty, Netty, Logging related libs (log4j, slf4j, etc..), and moved to latest H2 Database to eliminate any worries about a vulnerability in the older line.  Included a super slick mechanism to upgrade from the old database to the new one without the user having to worry about it.

A full list of issues that were resolved can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12350741

NiFi Flow Design System 0.3.0

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