Release 366 (14 Dec 2021)

General

Add support for automatic query retries. This feature can be turned on by setting the retry-policy config property or the retry_policy session property to retry. (#9361)
Add CREATE privilege kind to SQL grammar. Note that this permission is not used by any existing security systems, but is available for plugins. (#10206)
Add support for DENY statement in the engine. Note that this statement is not supported by any existing security systems, but is available for plugins. (#10205)
Reduce lock contention during query execution. (#10246, #10239)
Improve query performance through optimizations to in-memory representations. (#10225)
Reduce query latency for contended clusters or complex queries with multiple stages. (#10249)
Fix incorrect results or failure when casting numeric values to varchar(n) type. (#552)
Remove support for spilling aggregations containing ORDER BY or DISTINCT clauses and associated configuration properties spill-distincting-aggregations-enabled, spill-ordering-aggregations-enabled. (#10183)

Read extended metadata from the _meta.trino index mapping attribute. _meta.presto is still supported for backward compatibility. (#8383)

Add support for redirects from Hive to Iceberg. This can be configured with hive.iceberg-catalog-name catalog configuration property. (#10173)
Improve performance of uploading data into tables that use S3 filesystem. (#10180)

Fix incorrect query results for tables partitioned on columns of type binary. (#9755)

Fix incorrect result when a date value is older than or equal to 1582-10-14. (#10054)

Fix incorrect result when a date value is older than or equal to 1582-10-14. (#10054)

Support configuring a read timeout via the prometheus.read-timeout config property. (#10101)

Fix incorrect result when a date value is older than or equal to 1582-10-14. (#10054)