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Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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Initial release | 2006 |
Stable release | 1.25.0 / 30 January 2024 [1] |
Repository | github |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Distributed dataflow |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | nifi |
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