Thanks Sebb, for pointing this out; you are of course correct. Will take care of this in future announcements,
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:14 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the project about? Why should I be interested in it? > [rhetorical questions] > > The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. > Most will have no idea what the project is about. > > So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the > product does, and some info on why the new release might be of > interest to them. > > Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic information > (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). > > Please can you add that information to future announce mails? > > Thanks. > > > On 20 March 2018 at 05:22, Parth Chandra <[email protected]> wrote: > > On behalf of the Apache Drill community, I am happy to announce the > release > > of Apache Drill 1.13.0. > > > > For information about Apache Drill, and to get involved, visit the > project > > website [1]. > > > > This release of Drill provides the following new features and > improvements: > > > > - YARN support for Drill [DRILL-1170] > > > > - Support HTTP Kerberos auth using SPNEGO [DRILL-5425] > > > > - Support SQL syntax highlighting of queries [DRILL-5868] > > > > - Drill should support user/distribution specific configuration checks > > during startup [DRILL-6068] > > > > - Upgrade DRILL to Calcite 1.15.0 [DRILL-5966] > > > > - Batch Sizing improvements to reduce memory footprint of operators > > > > - [DRILL-6071] - Limit batch size for flatten operator > > > > - [DRILL-6126] - Allocate memory for value vectors upfront in > > flatten operator > > > > - [DRILL-6123] - Limit batch size for Merge Join based on > > memory. > > > > - [DRILL-6177] - Merge Join - Allocate memory for outgoing > value > > vectors based on sizes of incoming batches. > > > > > > For the full list please see release notes [2]. > > > > The binary and source artifacts are available here [3]. > > > > Thanks to everyone in the community who contributed to this release! > > > > 1. https://drill.apache.org/ > > 2. https://drill.apache.org/docs/apache-drill-1-13-0-release-notes/ > > 3. https://drill.apache.org/download/ > > > > >
