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)

Security

• Require value for the shared secret configuration for internal communication when any authentication is enabled. (#11944)

CLI

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

Delta Lake connector

• 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)

Hive connector

• Improve query planning performance. (#11858)

Iceberg connector

• 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)

MySQL connector

• Improve query planning performance. (#11858)

Pinot connector

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

PostgreSQL connector

• Improve query planning performance. (#11858)

SQL Server connector

• Improve query planning performance. (#11858)

SPI

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