Today, we’re happy to announce the availability of Drill 1.17.0. You can download it here.
This release provides the following bug fixes and improvements:
Hive complex types support:
- DRILL-7251 - Read Hive array without nulls
- DRILL-7252 - Read Hive map using Dict<K,V> vector
- DRILL-7253 - Read Hive struct without nulls
- DRILL-7254 - Read Hive union without nulls
- DRILL-7268 - Read Hive array with parquet native reader
New format plugins support:
- DRILL-4303 - ESRI Shapefile (shp) format plugin
- DRILL-7177 - Format Plugin for Excel Files
- DRILL-6096 - Provide mechanisms to specify field delimiters and quoted text for TextRecordWriter
- Parquet format improvements, including runtime row group pruning (DRILL-7062), empty parquet creation (DRILL-7156), reading (DRILL-4517) support, and more.
Metastore support:
- DRILL-7272 - Implement Drill Iceberg Metastore plugin
- DRILL-7273 - Create operator for handling metadata
- DRILL-7357 - Expose Drill Metastore data through INFORMATION_SCHEMA
You can find a complete list of improvements and JIRAs resolved in the 1.17.0 release here.