Release 0.210

General

• Fix planning failure when aliasing columns of tables containing hidden columns ({issue}x11385).
• Fix correctness issue when GROUP BY DISTINCT terms contain references to the same column using different syntactic forms ({issue}x11120).
• Fix failures when querying information_schema tables using capitalized names.
• Improve performance when converting between ROW types.
• Remove user CPU time tracking as introduces non-trivial overhead.
• Select join distribution type automatically for queries involving outer joins.

Hive connector

• Fix a security bug introduced in 0.209 when using hive.security=file, which would allow any user to create, drop, or rename schemas.
• Prevent ORC writer from writing stripes larger than the max configured size when converting a highly dictionary compressed column to direct encoding.
• Support creating Avro tables with a custom schema using the avro_schema_url table property.
• Support backward compatible Avro schema evolution.
• Support cross-realm Kerberos authentication for HDFS and Hive Metastore.

JDBC driver

• Deallocate prepared statement when PreparedStatement is closed. Previously, Connection became unusable after many prepared statements were created.
• Remove getUserTimeMillis() from QueryStats and StageStats.

SPI

• SystemAccessControl.checkCanSetUser() now takes an Optional<Principal> rather than a nullable Principal.
• Rename connectorId to catalogName in ConnectorFactory, QueryInputMetadata, and QueryOutputMetadata.
• Pass ConnectorTransactionHandle to ConnectorAccessControl.checkCanSetCatalogSessionProperty().
• Remove getUserTime() from SplitStatistics (referenced in SplitCompletedEvent).

:::{note} These are backwards incompatible changes with the previous SPI. If you have written a plugin, you will need to update your code before deploying this release. :::