I agree, it's about time to have a new release. Thanks for volunteering, Peter!
Gabor On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM Zoltán Borók-Nagy <borokna...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for volunteering, Peter! > > Yeah, it's about time to release all the good stuff the community has > worked on. > > I'm planning to take a look if I can quickly add an initial, experimental > support for Iceberg REST catalogs: IMPALA-13586 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-13586>. > This should enable lightweight Impala deployments, where you wouldn't need > CatalogD, nor HMS. > But if it will require too much time then It's OK to move forward with the > release. > > Cheers, > Zoltan > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM Peter Rozsa <pro...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Our last minor release, 4.4.0, was released ~7 months ago (May 2024), and > > the maintenance version of 4.4.1 was released almost 5 months ago. There > > have been many new changes since then covering > > > > - > > > > Workload management improvements > > - > > > > User quotas for Admission Control > > - > > > > Roaring bitmap for Iceberg deletes > > - > > > > Calcite planner preparations > > - > > > > MERGE statement for Iceberg tables > > - > > > > Reading Puffin stat files for Iceberg tables > > - > > > > Improvements for OPTIMIZE statement > > - > > > > Tuple cache improvements > > - > > > > Optimizations for JSON format > > - > > > > Optimizations for Iceberg tables > > - > > > > Event processor improvements > > - > > > > Complex type improvements > > - > > > > Various performance improvements > > - > > > > Various diagnostic improvements > > > > > > I propose that we release 4.5.0 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! > > > > Cheers, Peter > > >
