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ยท 7 min read

A few months ago it was announced that v4 was coming. Well, that happened... and also a bunch more releases since then. Now that the fundamentals have been tidied up considerably we're adding new features and they're coming in hot and heavy (and a bit sticky). Almost entirely parallel to this effort is the work on the new Benthos Studio, which is a visual application for creating, modifying and sharing Benthos (and Bloblang) configs.

Things are certainly moving fast. However, we've clearly been lacking in the blog department. To remedy this here's a summary of all the stuff we would have blogged about if we had more time and bother.

ยท 6 min read

The v4 roadmap was outlined more than a year ago, in that time all the major features planned have been completed and released in backwards compatible ways into v3, leaving only the breaking changes left (the fun stuff).

We're now also at a point where the breaking changes that we want to include in v4 have been completed on a branch, and a migration guide is ready to use which describes how to prepare for v4. Therefore, it seems to me, that we're ready to actually prepare the release.

ยท 4 min read

I need help, attention and affirmation, and therefore it's time for a development update. Around five months ago I posted a roadmap for Benthos v4 that included some utterly unattainable goals that only a super human could achieve.

Now that most of those features are ready to test, namely a new plugins API and config templating, I'm looking for people to try them out and give feedback. Please read on if that sounds like fun to you, or also if it doesn't sound fun but you intend to do it anyway.

ยท 7 min read

Benthos has been at major version 3 for over a year now, and I consider it to be a pretty cool achievement that given all the dope features added we've managed to keep both the Benthos config spec and APIs fully backwards compatible.

However, eventually it would be nice to cut a new major release and prune all of the dead weight that has accumulated during this time. Since major version releases don't come often I wanted to be sure that we've considered and planned any other potential breaking changes that could be bundled along with it.

ยท 4 min read

For the last few weeks I've been working on improving the workflow story in Benthos. That means reducing the number of processors, simplifying them, and at the same time making them more powerful than before. The new functionality outlined here can be used in the latest release v3.26.0.

ยท 5 min read

For the last few weekends I've been dipping my toes in a mapping language design that I'm calling Bloblang. Bloblang is specifically designed for data queries and (eventually) structural data mappings. In Benthos version 3.12, which I'm planning to release today, you can play around with a limited feature set of Bloblang by using it in function interpolations.