Release 380 (6 May 2022)#

General#

Enable automatic writer scaling by default. (#10614)
Improve performance of joins involving comparisons with the <,<=, >,>= operators. (#12236)

Add support for the v5 and v6 protocols. (#7729)
Removes support for v2 protocol. (#7729)
Make the cassandra.load-policy.use-dc-aware and cassandra.load-policy.dc-aware.local-dc catalog configuration properties mandatory. (#7729)

Support table redirections from Hive to Delta Lake. (#11550)
Allow configuring a default value for the auto_purge table property with the hive.auto-purge catalog property. (#11749)
Allow configuration of the Hive views translation security semantics with the hive.hive-views.run-as-invoker catalog configuration property. (#9227)
Rename catalog configuration property hive.translate-hive-views to hive.hive-views.enabled. The former name is still accepted. (#12238)
Rename catalog configuration property hive.legacy-hive-view-translation to hive.hive-views.legacy-translation. The former name is still accepted. (#12238)
Rename session property legacy_hive_view_translation to hive_views_legacy_translation. (#12238)

Allow updating tables from the Iceberg v1 table format to v2 with ALTER TABLE ... SET PROPERTIES. (#12161)
Allow changing the default file format for a table with ALTER TABLE ... SET PROPERTIES. (#12161)
Prevent potential corruption when a table change is interrupted by networking or timeout failures. (#10462)