You are among the 7,000 early adopters who downloaded our recently released Talend Data Preparation product. We cannot thank you enough for that, especially those among you who reported issues and suggestions for improvement through the embedded feedback form, the dataprep@talend.com e-mail, or/and the data preparation forum.

This precious feedback helped to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and issues. We are happy to announce that we released a 1.0.1 version focused on performance upgrades and import/export fixes:
• Reduce memory consumption when adding a new dataset
• Import larger Excel files -> as a result, we increased the auto-truncation safeguard from 10K to 30K rows  (see the forum for more details)
• Import performance improvement (our benchmarks show a 4* improvement)
• Significant recipe performance improvement when adding a new function
 
You can download this new release right now from this link. Your existing datasets and recipes will not be affected by the upgrade.  
 
We will keep you updated when we publish new releases of the Talend Data Preparation Free Desktop. In the meantime, we appreciate your feedbacks and participation in our community. In case you didn’t get started with the product after your download, we advise to visit our getting started section so that you can run your first data preparation in a matter of minutes.