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@huangjw806 huangjw806 released this 11 Jan 07:30
· 2738 commits to main since this release
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For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

  • Query syntax:
    • Allows NOW in upper bound condition for temporal filters. #13985
    • Supports temporal filters with multiple OR expressions. #14382
    • Supports <expr> [ NOT ] SIMILAR TO <pat> [ ESCAPE <esc_text> ] clause. #14000
    • Breaking change: Fixes the correctness of SOME, ALL, and ANY expressions. Drop and recreate any materialized views that use these expressions. #14221
    • Supports array subquery and \du command. #14044
    • Supports SET PARALLELISM clause for ALTER commands. #14240
  • SQL commands:
    • Technical preview feature: Supports CREATE SINK INTO TABLE. Multiple sinks can use the same table as the target. #13185, #13659
  • SQL functions & operators:
    • Breaking change: 0b10 is now interpreted as binary 10 instead of 0 as b10. Integer literals can be given in hex 0x, oct 0o and bin 0b. #14262
    • Supports interval type as input for to_char(). #14071
  • System catalog:
    • Add system view rw_streaming_parallelism. #14261

Connectors

  • Adds CDC backfill support for Postgres so users can ingest multiple PostgreSQL tables with a single replication slot. #13958
  • Support multi-table transaction from upstream MySQL & Postgres CDC. Specify transactional = true in the WITH options to enabled it. #14375
  • Renames scan.startup.timestamp_millis to scan.startup.timestamp.millis for Kafka, Pulsar and NATS source. #13656
  • Adds properties.ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm parameter for Kafka source and sink.#13990
  • Supports FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE PROTOBUF syntax for Kafka sink. #12858
  • Supports GCS file source. #13414
  • Breaking change: For ClickHouse sinks, timestamptz can be sinked to DateTime64timestamp cannot be sinked and has to be converted to timestamptz first before being sinked. #13672
  • For Elasticsearch sinks, the default es.type is set as _doc for Elasticsearch 6.x and 7.x. #14273
  • connector = 'iceberg_java' is deprecated, and users can only Iceberg sinks with the Rust version of Iceberg. Similarly, the DeltaLake sink will also use the Rust version implementation. #14277
  • Supports StarRocks sink. #12681

Installation and deployment

  • Allows for storage.prefetch_buffer_capacity_mb to be configured in the TOML file to prevent out of memory issues. #13558
  • Supports Huawei Cloud OBS as the storage backend. #13844

Cluster configuration changes

  • Supports setting statement_timeout value for queries. #13933
  • Exposes SSL functionality through RW_SSL_CERT and RW_SSL_KEY environment variables to configure SSL certificates and key file location. #14062

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0