Pentaho Kettle Tightens Database Connections, SSH Timeouts, and Dependency Chain

Pentaho Kettle shipped thirteen commits in the past week across 839 files. The work is not a headline feature drop. It is the kind of maintenance that keeps long running ETL estates stable: dependency bumps with compatibility follow ups, a centralized database factory for Connection Management Service routing, SSH timeout semantics that finally match operator intent, and a TinkerPop graph migration for lineage analyzers.