Release 437 (24 Jan 2024)

General

• Add support for char(n) values in {func}to_utf8. ({issue}20158)
• Add support for char(n) values in {func}lpad. ({issue}16907)
• {{breaking}} Replace the exchange.compression-enabled configuration property and exchange_compression session property with the exchange.compression-codecand exchange_compression_codec properties, respectively. ({issue}20274)
• {{breaking}} Replace the spill-compression-enabled configuration property with the spill-compression-codec property. ({issue}20274)
• {{breaking}} Remove the deprecated experimental.spill-compression-enabled configuration property. ({issue}20274)
• Fix failure when invoking functions that may return null values. ({issue}18456)
• Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with RowBlockBuilder during output operations. ({issue}20426)

Delta Lake connector

• Improve query performance for queries that don't use table statistics. ({issue}20054)

Hive connector

• Fix error when coercing union-typed data to a single type when reading Avro files. ({issue}20310)

Iceberg connector

• Fix materialized views being permanently stale when they reference table functions. ({issue}19904)
• Improve performance of queries with filters on ROW columns stored in Parquet files. ({issue}17133)