Release 401 (26 Oct 2022)#

General#

Add support for using path-style access for all requests to S3 when using fault-tolerant execution with exchange spooling. This can be enabled with the exchange.s3.path-style-access configuration property. (#14655)
Add support for table functions in file-based access control. (#13713)
Add output buffer utilization distribution to EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE. (#14596)
Add operator blocked time distribution to EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE. (#14640)
Improve performance and reliability of INSERT and MERGE. (#14553)
Fix query failure caused by a com.google.common.base.VerifyException: cannot unset noMoreSplits error. (#14668)
Fix underestimation of CPU usage and scheduled time statistics for joins in EXPLAIN ANALYZE. (#14572)

Add support for writing to tables with Delta Lake writer protocol version 4. This does not yet include support for change data feeds or generated columns. (#14573)
Add support for writes on Google Cloud Storage. (#12264)
Avoid overwriting the reader and writer versions when executing a COMMENT or ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN statement. (#14611)
Fix failure when listing tables from the Glue metastore and one of the tables has no properties. (#14577)

Add support for IBM Cloud Object Storage. (#14625)
Allow creating tables with an Avro schema literal using the new table property avro_schema_literal. (#14426)
Fix potential query failure or incorrect results when reading from a table with the avro.schema.literal Hive table property set. (#14426)
Fix failure when listing tables from the Glue metastore and one of the tables has no properties. (#14577)

Improve performance of the remove_orphan_files table procedure. (#13691)
Fix query failure when analyzing a table that contains a column with a non-lowercase name. (#14583)
Fix failure when listing tables from the Glue metastore and one of the tables has no properties. (#14577)

Add support for configuring the prefix for internal column names with the kafka.internal-column-prefix catalog configuration property. The default value is _ to maintain current behavior. (#14224)