Release 398 (28 Sep 2022)

General

Add Hudi connector. ({issue}10228)
Add metrics for the execution time of filters and projections to EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE. ({issue}14135)
Show local cost estimates when using EXPLAIN. ({issue}14268)
Fix timeouts happening too early because of improper handling of the node-scheduler.allowed-no-matching-node-period configuration property. ({issue}14256)
Fix query failure for MERGE queries when task_writer_count is greater than one. ({issue}14306)

Add support for column comments when creating a new table. ({issue}14114)
Move column mapping and index information into the output of DESCRIBE instead of a comment. ({issue}14095)

Fix improper escaping of backslash and newline characters. ({issue}14254)
Fix query failure when the predicate involves a varchar value with a backslash. ({issue}14254)

Improve performance when reading Parquet files for queries with predicates. ({issue}14247)

Deprecate support for query pass-through using the special <index>$query:<es-query> dynamic tables in favor of the raw_query table function. Legacy behavior can be re-enabled with the elasticsearch.legacy-pass-through-query.enabled configuration property. ({issue}14015)

Add support for partitioned views when legacy mode for view translation is enabled. ({issue}14028)
Extend the flush_metadata_cache procedure to be able to flush table-related caches instead of only partition-related caches. ({issue}14219)
Improve performance when reading Parquet files for queries with predicates. ({issue}14247)

Improve performance when reading Parquet files for queries with predicates. ({issue}14247)
Fix potential table corruption when changing a table before it is known if committing to the Glue metastore has failed or succeeded. ({issue}14174)

Extend ConnectorMetadata.getStatisticsCollectionMetadata to allow the connector to request the computation of any aggregation function during stats collection. ({issue}14233)