Sounds great! One thing I didn't quite understand about your views on 7127, the fetch-on-demand metadata. Are you saying we should wait on that until 4.1?
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 2:06 AM Quanlong Huang <huangquanl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Impala-3.4.0 was released in April 2020. It has been a long time since the > last release. One reason is that this is a major version release so we hope > it can take all the necessary breaking changes [1]. Listing all the > unresolved breaking changes here (I may miss some): > > - IMPALA-2210: Make Parquet the default file format > - IMPALA-9690: Bump minimum x86-64 CPU requirements > - IMPALA-7127: Use the fetch-on-demand metadata (LocalCatalog) mode by > default > - I think this one is not visible to end users so maybe we can skip it. > > However, we've got lots of amazing features/improvements, e.g. > > - Multi-threading > - New SQL features to support all TPC-DS 99 queries (without manually > rewriting) > - Transparent query retry > - Read support on full ACID ORC tables > - Apache DataSketches integration > - Apache Iceberg integration > - arm64 support > - ... > > I think it's time to release 4.0.0 to make them visible to our users. It'd > be good if the breaking changes discussed in this thread [1] can land soon. > Otherwise, I propose leaving them to the next major version release. > > Thus, I propose that we release 4.0.0 soon and I volunteer to be its > release manager. Please speak up and let the community know your ideas, > especially on the breaking changes. All feedback is welcome! > > PS This is not a VOTE thread but only a DISCUSS thread. > > Thanks, > Quanlong > > [1] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91b070c2ddfbdc00b316791611b23816991c68fb0afefd1e18c21c26%40%3Cuser.impala.apache.org%3E >
