Hi Arina, I have two projects in progress: one is a candidate for 1.11, the other is not.
The “managed external sort” is the good candidate for 1.11: The PR for DRILL-5601 is being reviewed. Getting that in will allow us to enable the “new” external sort by default. The other project is to address Drill’s memory fragmentation issue with vectors over 16 MB in size. Two PRs have been open for a while. They are the first of several. Each takes a while to review. So, the project does not fit 1.11. The work can go into the next release instead. Thanks, - Paul
