Release 437 (24 Jan 2024)

General

• Add support for char(n) values in to_utf8(). (#20158)
• Add support for char(n) values in lpad(). (#16907)
• ⚠️ Breaking change: Replace the exchange.compression-enabled configuration property and exchange_compression session property with the exchange.compression-codecand exchange_compression_codec properties, respectively. (#20274)
• ⚠️ Breaking change: Replace the spill-compression-enabled configuration property with the spill-compression-codec property. (#20274)
• ⚠️ Breaking change: Remove the deprecated experimental.spill-compression-enabled configuration property. (#20274)
• Fix failure when invoking functions that may return null values. (#18456)
• Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with RowBlockBuilder during output operations. (#20426)

Delta Lake connector

• Improve query performance for queries that don't use table statistics. (#20054)

Hive connector

• Fix error when coercing union-typed data to a single type when reading Avro files. (#20310)

Iceberg connector

• Fix materialized views being permanently stale when they reference table functions. (#19904)
• Improve performance of queries with filters on ROW columns stored in Parquet files. (#17133)