Drill 1.20.3.225 - 2505 (EEP 9.2.3) Release Notes
The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric distribution for Apache Drill. You may also be interested in the Apache Drill homepage and the Apache Drill release notes:
| Version | 1.20.3.225 |
| Release Date | May 2025 |
| HPE Version Interoperability | See Ecosystem Support Matrix and EEP Components and OS Support. |
| Package Names | Navigate to http://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/, and select your EEP(MEP) and OS to view the list of package names. |
New in This Release
Drill 1.20.3.225 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
- Drill system options can now be enabled at the session-level through JDBC connection properties. For more details, see: https://docs.ezmeral.hpe.com/datafabric-customer-managed/70/Drill/drill-properties.html#parquet-block-size__section_nkg_kb4_bcc
- Drill 1.20.3.225 implements various improvements and CVE fixes. For more information, see the fixes listed in the next section.
Fixes
This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
| Commit | Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Comment |
| eb04634269 | 2025-05-07 | Exclude shaded multi-release Java 21+ classes from hive-exec |
| 59f1c9ff4a | 2024-10-08 | MD-6571: bump apache avro version to 1.11.4. CVE-2024-47561 |
| d17085ce33 | 2025-04-28 | MD-6571: bump apache avro version to 1.11.4. CVE-2024-47561 |
| c1e96d86e1 | 2024-07-30 | MD-6541: RowKeyJoin returns not all the expected records (#600) |
| bba5ba77f5 | 2024-05-15 | MD-6527: Tried to remove unmanaged buffer |
| f885b948ab | 2024-03-27 | MD-6497: backport part of DRILL-8409. |
| 67ef071299 | 2024-03-27 | MD-6497: fix handling of long variable length entries during bulk parquet reading |
| db079e42ea | 2024-03-23 | MD-6509: allow enabling Drill system options at session-level via JDBC connection properties |
| 00fe194f03 | 2024-03-02 | MD-6501: step ahead in NLJ if the first left batch is empty |
| 2f63642be4 | 2024-03-01 | MD-6501: make Nested Loop Join operator properly process empty batches and batches with new schema |
Known Issues
- DRILL-8511: Experimental JSON reader (configuration option
store.json.enable_v2_readerset totrue) fails withIllegalStateExceptionwhen a batch reaches the rows limit.
Limitations
- Some unequal left joins may start failing in this release. For details, see Drill Limitations: Unequal JOIN Support.
- The Hive storage plugin for Drill does not support reading of the parquet timestamp type with the int64 logical type.