Hi! I think that it is high time to create a new release for impala-shell on pypi - the main motivation is support for newer Python versions (IMPALA-12656) as with the current versions on pypi (4.4.0a2, 4.3.0) the newest Python that works is 3.10. https://pypi.org/project/impala-shell/#history
Python 3.10 only gets security fixes and will be EOL in 2026. https://devguide.python.org/versions/ When Impala 4.5 was released the fix for newer Python versions was net merged yet, for this reason I don't think that it is useful to create an impala-shell release based on 4.5 state. https://github.com/apache/impala/commit/9437f9fd1689320e74c71d61a8692d767fa0e073 My proposal is to create an impala-shell release based on the current state of Apache Impala master branch and call it 4.5.1. This would be a shell only release. If there will be an Apache Impala hotfix release for 4.5 than it would be 4.5.2. I don't see discussions about previous impala-shell releases in dev-impala, but I though that it is better to discuss this openly due to the effect on Apache Impala version number. There are several improvements besides Python compatibility since the last non-alpha release 4.3.0, including: - OAuth AuthN support - "long polling" support - improved progress bar regards, Csaba
