Release 385 (8 Jun 2022)

General

• Add the json_array and json_object JSON functions. ({issue}9081)
• Support all types that can be cast to varchar as parameters for the JSON path. ({issue}12682)
• Allow CREATE TABLE LIKE clause on a table from a different catalog if explicitly excluding table properties. ({issue}3171)
• Reduce Exceeded limit of N open writers for partitions errors when fault-tolerant execution is enabled. ({issue}12721)

Delta Lake connector

• Add support for the appendOnly field. ({issue}12635)
• Add support for column comments when creating a table or a column. ({issue}12455, {issue}12715)

Hive connector

• Allow cancelling a query on a transactional table if it is waiting for a lock. ({issue}11798)
• Add support for selecting a compression scheme when writing Avro files via the hive.compression-codec config property or the compression_codec session property. ({issue}12639)

Iceberg connector

• Improve query performance when a table consists of many small files. ({issue}12579)
• Improve query performance when performing a delete or update. ({issue}12671)
• Add support for the [VERSION | TIMESTAMP] AS OF clause. ({issue}10258)
• Show Iceberg location and format_version in SHOW CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW. ({issue}12504)

MariaDB connector

• Add support for timestamp(p) type. ({issue}12200)

TPC-H connector

• Fix query failure when reading the dbgen_version table. ({issue}12673)