Release 380 (6 May 2022)

General

Enable automatic writer scaling by default. ({issue}10614)
Improve performance of joins involving comparisons with the <,<=, >,>= operators. ({issue}12236)

Add support for the v5 and v6 protocols. ({issue}7729)
Removes support for v2 protocol. ({issue}7729)
Make the cassandra.load-policy.use-dc-aware and cassandra.load-policy.dc-aware.local-dc catalog configuration properties mandatory. ({issue}7729)

Support table redirections from Hive to Delta Lake. ({issue}11550)
Allow configuring a default value for the auto_purge table property with the hive.auto-purge catalog property. ({issue}11749)
Allow configuration of the Hive views translation security semantics with the hive.hive-views.run-as-invoker catalog configuration property. ({issue}9227)
Rename catalog configuration property hive.translate-hive-views to hive.hive-views.enabled. The former name is still accepted. ({issue}12238)
Rename catalog configuration property hive.legacy-hive-view-translation to hive.hive-views.legacy-translation. The former name is still accepted. ({issue}12238)
Rename session property legacy_hive_view_translation to hive_views_legacy_translation. ({issue}12238)

Allow updating tables from the Iceberg v1 table format to v2 with ALTER TABLE ... SET PROPERTIES. ({issue}12161)
Allow changing the default file format for a table with ALTER TABLE ... SET PROPERTIES. ({issue}12161)
Prevent potential corruption when a table change is interrupted by networking or timeout failures. ({issue}10462)

Add support for ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO .... ({issue}11423)
Fix failure when reading decimal values with precision larger than 18. ({issue}12205)