Impala 4.4.0 was released 2 months ago on 2024-05-25. There are several bugs that block it from being used in production. I think we should make a maintenance release of 4.4.1 to fix them. Here are the list of issues:
Critical Fixes IMPALA-13107: Don't start query on executor if instance number equals 0 IMPALA-13129: Move runtime filter skipping at registerRuntimeFilter IMPALA-13130: Prioritize EndDataStream messages IMPALA-13138: Never smallify existing StringValue objects, only new ones during DeepCopy IMPALA-13161: Fix column index overflow in DelimitedTextParser IMPALA-13152: Avoid NaN, infinite, and negative ProcessingCost IMPALA-13150: Possible buffer overflow in StringVal::CopyFrom() IMPALA-13057: Incorporate tuple/slot information into tuple cache key Nice-to-have IMPALA-13203: Rewrite 'id = 0 OR false' as expected IMPALA-13252: Consistently use PrintId to print TUniqueId IMPALA-9441,IMPALA-13170: Ops listing dbs/tables should handle db not exists IMPALA-13028: Strip dynamic link libraries in Linux DEB/RPM packages IMPALA-13134: DDL hang with SYNC_DDL enabled when Catalogd is changed to standby status IMPALA-13143: Fix flaky test_catalogd_failover_with_sync_ddl IMPALA-13119: Fix cost_ initialization at CostingSegment.java IMPALA-13077: Fix selectivity estimation for SEMI JOIN IMPALA-13076 Add pstack and jstack to Impala Redhat docker images IMPALA-13058: Init first_arrival_time_ and completion_time_ with -1 IMPALA-13040: Add waiting mechanism in UpdateFilterFromRemote IMPALA-13040: (addendum) Inject larger delay for sanitized build IMPALA-13035: Querying metadata tables from non-Iceberg tables throws IllegalArgumentException IMPALA-13034: Add logs and counters for HTTP profile requests blocking client fetches IMPALA-12712: Invalidate metadata on table should set better createEventId IMPALA-12680: Fix NullPointerException during AlterTableAddPartitions IMPALA-13159: Fix query cancellation caused by statestore failover IMPALA-10451: Fix avro table loading failures caused by HIVE-24157 I propose that we release 4.4.1 soon. I'm willing to volunteer as the release manager. I'm interested to hear what the community thinks about doing a release. All feedback is welcome! Thanks, Quanlong
