Release 378 (21 Apr 2022)#

General#

Add to_base32() and from_base32() functions. (#11439)
Improve planning performance of queries with large IN lists. (#11902, #11918, #11956)
Improve performance of queries involving correlated IN or EXISTS predicates. (#12047)
Fix reporting of total spilled bytes in JMX metrics. (#11983)

Allow disabling progress reporting during query executing in the CLI client by specifying --no-progress (#11894)
Reduce latency for very short queries. (#11768)

Improve query planning performance. (#11858)
Fix failure when reading from information_schema.columns when metastore contains views. (#11946)
Add support for dropping tables with invalid metadata. (#11924)
Fix query failure when partition column has a null value and query has a complex predicate on that partition column. (#12056)

Add support for hidden $path columns. (#8769)
Add support for creating tables with either Iceberg format version 1, or 2. (#11880)
Add the expire_snapshots table procedure. (#10810)
Add the delete_orphan_files table procedure. (#10810)
Allow reading Iceberg tables written by Glue that have locations containing double slashes. (#11964)
Improve query planning performance. (#11858)
Fix query failure with a dynamic filter prunes a split on a worker node. (#11976)
Include missing format_version property in SHOW CREATE TABLE output. (#11980)

Support querying tables having non-lowercase names in Pinot. (#6789)
Fix handling of hybrid tables in Pinot and stop returning duplicate data. (#10125)

Deprecate passing constraints to ConnectorMetadata.getTableStatistics(). Constraints can be associated with the table handle in ConnectorMetadata.applyFilter(). (#11877)