+1, thank you Peter for starting the process. On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM Laszlo Gaal <lasz...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1, and thank you Peter for taking the lead. > > This may also be a good opportunity to consider deprecating some of the > older technologies > still supported by Impala, but retired by their creators, like Python 2, > CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04. > > If agreement can be reached on this topic, then 4.5.0 could be the last > release that still has support > for the tech we decide to deprecate, and the release notes / release > announcement could > also contain the statements about the deprecations. > > I'm happy to start a separate discussion thread for this topic to keep this > thread > focused on the 4.5.0 release. > > Thanks, > > - LaszloG > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM Quanlong Huang <huangquanl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > +1. Thanks for volunteering! > > > > Maybe it's worth doing a quick release for 4.4.2 before this? So 4.5.0 > > still appears as the latest release when it comes up. > > I see in another thread we found IMPALA-13254 useful. There are also > > some bug fixes like IMPALA-13193 that can be backported. > > Sorry for disrupting the topic. But if people think a 4.4.2 release is > > ok, I can start a new discussion thread for that. > > > > Quanlong > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM Michael Smith > > <michael.sm...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > > > Agreed, thank you for getting this started! > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM Gabor Kaszab <gaborkas...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I agree, it's about time to have a new release. Thanks for > > volunteering, > > > > Peter! > > > > > > > > Gabor > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM Zoltán Borók-Nagy < > > borokna...@apache.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks for volunteering, Peter! > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, it's about time to release all the good stuff the community > has > > > > > worked on. > > > > > > > > > > I'm planning to take a look if I can quickly add an initial, > > experimental > > > > > support for Iceberg REST catalogs: IMPALA-13586 > > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-13586>. > > > > > This should enable lightweight Impala deployments, where you > wouldn't > > > > need > > > > > CatalogD, nor HMS. > > > > > But if it will require too much time then It's OK to move forward > > with > > > > the > > > > > release. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Zoltan > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM Peter Rozsa <pro...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > > Our last minor release, 4.4.0, was released ~7 months ago (May > > 2024), > > > > and > > > > > > the maintenance version of 4.4.1 was released almost 5 months > ago. > > > > There > > > > > > have been many new changes since then covering > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Workload management improvements > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > User quotas for Admission Control > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Roaring bitmap for Iceberg deletes > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Calcite planner preparations > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > MERGE statement for Iceberg tables > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Reading Puffin stat files for Iceberg tables > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Improvements for OPTIMIZE statement > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Tuple cache improvements > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Optimizations for JSON format > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Optimizations for Iceberg tables > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Event processor improvements > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Complex type improvements > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Various performance improvements > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > Various diagnostic improvements > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I propose that we release 4.5.0 soon. I'm willing to volunteer as > > the > > > > > > > > > > > > release manager. I'm interested to hear what the community thinks > > about > > > > > > > > > > > > doing a release. All feedback is welcome! > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
