Release notes

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Apache Druid {{DRUIDVERSION}} contains over $NUMBER_FEATURES new features, bug fixes, performance enhancements, documentation improvements, and additional test coverage from $NUMBER_OF_CONTRIBUTORS contributors.

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See the complete set of changes for additional details, including bug fixes.

Review the upgrade notes and incompatible changes before you upgrade to Druid {{DRUIDVERSION}}. If you are upgrading across multiple versions, see the Upgrade notes page, which lists upgrade notes for the most recent Druid versions.

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Important features, changes, and deprecations

This section contains important information about new and existing features.

Functional area and related changes

This section contains detailed release notes separated by areas.

Web console

Other web console improvements

Ingestion

SQL-based ingestion

Other SQL-based ingestion improvements

Streaming ingestion

Other streaming ingestion improvements

Querying

Other querying improvements

Cluster management

Other cluster management improvements

Data management

Other data management improvements

Metrics and monitoring

Extensions

Documentation improvements

Upgrade notes and incompatible changes

Upgrade notes

Incompatible changes

Developer notes

Dependency updates

The following dependencies have had their versions bumped: