News
Ion Hive SerDe 0.1.0 Released
21 January 2019
Apache Hive SerDe (short for serializer/deserializer) for the Ion file format alpha is released.
This new Serializer/Deserializer for Apache Hive supports the Ion binary and text formats, all of the Ion types, and flattening through path extraction. This release is an Alpha release and a complete list of features can be found in the GitHub repository.
| GitHub Repository |
Ion Java Path Extraction 1.0.0 Released
12 November 2018
Ion Path Extraction API aims to combine the convenience of a DOM API with the speed of a streaming API.
The user can register search paths and callbacks with the extractor that will read the Ion document in the most efficient way looking for the registered paths. When it matches a search path it will invoke the correspondent callback.
| GitHub Repository |
Ion Schema Specification 1.0 Released
05 November 2018
This new specification describes a language and set of constraints used to declaratively constrain Ion values. Types defined by a schema could be used to:
- assert that a value meets specific expectations,
- generate developer-friendly APIs for working with data,
- enable efficient analysis over data that conforms to a type,
- and more!
A reference implementation of Ion Schema is now available as open source software. It is written in Kotlin, and should be considered alpha software.
| Ion Schema Specification | Reference Implementation |
Amazon Redshift Spectrum Adds Nested Ion Support
09 August 2018
You can now use Amazon Redshift to directly query nested data in Apache Parquet, Apache ORC, JSON and Amazon Ion file formats stored in external tables in Amazon S3.
Nested data support with Redshift Spectrum enables you to query complex data types such as struct, array, or map, without having to transform or load your data.
| AWS Announcement |
Developers’ Guide to Ion Symbols Released
06 August 2018
This document provides developer-focused commentary on the Symbols section of the specification and discusses the implementation of symbol table, symbol token, and catalog APIs.
| Symbols Developer Guide |
Ion Java 1.2.0 Released
22 June 2018
- Decouples IonReader from IonSystem and adds IonReaderBuilder.
- Adds Automatic-Module-Name in manifest so Java9 modular applications can depend on this library.
| Release Notes |
Ion C 1.0.1 Released
26 May 2018
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue that caused release builds to fail during linking.
| Release Notes |
Ion Python 0.3.1 Released
16 May 2018
Adds support for binary and text in simpleion.loads() and simpleion.dumps().
| Release Notes |
Ion C 1.0.0 Released
13 April 2018
Highlighted features:
- Streaming readers and writers for both binary and text Ion.
- CLI tool for processing and comparing Ion streams.
- Test suite backed by ion-tests.
Limitations:
- No UTF-16 or UTF-32 support.
- Binary Ion streams may not exceed 232 distinct symbols.
| Release Notes |
Amazon Releases ion-test-driver
13 April 2018
A cross-implementation test driver for Amazon Ion readers and writers.
| GitHub Repository |
Ion Java 1.1.2 Released
02 April 2018
Javadoc changes.
| Release Notes |
Ion Java 1.1.1 Released
23 March 2018
Fixes IonStruct.clone performance regression introduced in v1.1.0.
| Release Notes |
Amazon Redshift Spectrum Adds Scalar Ion Support
08 March 2018
You can now use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to directly query scalar JSON and Ion data types stored in external tables in Amazon S3 - without loading or transforming the data.
| AWS Announcement |
Ion Java 1.1.0 Released
24 January 2018
Adds support for empty symbols, local symbol append, SID0, NOP padding, and more improvements.
| Release Notes |
Ion Java 1.0.3 Released
13 October 2017
Avoid writing fractional second if not necessary in Timestamp binary encoding.
| Release Notes |
Jackson Adds Ion Support
30 July 2017
First official version of jackson-dataformat-ion (under jackson-dataformats-binary repo) — used for reading/writing Amazon Ion format documents.
| Medium Announcement | Release Notes |
Amazon Releases ion-eclipse-plugin
21 July 2017
An Eclipse plugin for working with files using the Amazon Ion data format.
| GitHub Repository | Getting Started |
Ion Python 0.2.0 Released
10 May 2017
Adds support for reading text Ion and fixes bug affecting writes of large binary Ion values.
| Release Notes |
Amazon Releases ion-js
25 April 2017
Ion-JS is a JavaScript library for Ion – this is currently alpha software and is subject to change. The library allows for reading/writing Ion data from within JavaScript code.
| GitHub Repository | API Documentation |
Ion Java 1.0.2 Released
08 February 2017
Provides OSGi metadata. Fixes a few small bugs.
| Release Notes |
Ion Java 1.0.1 Released
29 September 2016
Ability to read and write 32-bit floats, and to query integer sizes (short, int, long, etc.) for more efficient materialization (no need to always start with BigInteger).
| Release Notes |
Amazon Releases ion-python
09 July 2016
A python implementation of Amazon Ion designed to work with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.3+.
| GitHub Repository |
Amazon Releases ion-c
27 June 2016
Ion-C is a C library for Ion.
| GitHub Repository |
Amazon Releases ion-intellij-plugin
14 June 2016
An IntelliJ plugin for working with files using the Amazon Ion data format.
| GitHub Repository | IntelliJ Plugins |
Ion Java 1.0.0 Released
25 April 2016
This is the initial open source release of Ion Java.
| Release Notes | Maven Central | Javadoc |
Amazon Open Sources Ion
21 April 2016
Amazon released the specification for Ion.
| Ion Specification |