Drill 1.21.2.200 (EEP 9.4.1) 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 1.21.2.200
Release Date July 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 1.21.2.200 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

  • CVE fixes.
  • Bug fixes.

JDBC Driver

Starting from EEP-9.4.0 the Drill JDBC driver implementation was changed to Apache-based version. The driver class name is now: 
org.apache.drill.jdbc.Driver
You can find the new driver from the Drill home directory, or download it from artifactory. For details, see Drill JDBC Drivers.

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
28b70cc2dd 2025-07-07 Bump logback version to 1.3.15
6eef9c8ec3 2025-07-04 MD-6626: Update Jetty to 9.4.57. CVE-2024-8184, CVE-2024-13009
330f5e2940 2025-07-04 MD-6625: Bump Netty version to 4.1.122
f7a2240407 2025-07-04 MD-6624: Update protobuf-java version to 3.25.5 due to CVE-2024-7254
cc3a763e79 2025-06-11 MD-6621: Update parquet-avro to 1.15.2. CVE-2025-46762
17fa9bba6f 2025-05-23 MD-6618: exclude shaded jackson Java 22 classes from hive-exec
3717b66abd 2025-05-22 MD-6499: replace sqline's jline-terminal-jansi dependency with jline-terminal-jni
b2d77b3cc2 2025-05-22 MD-6617: Migrate fully to Apache Commons Collections 4.x
ca723b0bb6 2025-05-16 MD-6614: open java.base/java.net package to unnamed modules. Java 17 support
69eb4847d6 2025-04-28 MD-6607: Upgrade parquet-avro to 1.15.1, avro to 1.12.0
b7c6466ec1 2025-04-29 MD-6609: Change session cookie name. Use STRICT sameSite

Known Issues

  • DRILL-8511: Experimental JSON reader (configuration option store.json.enable_v2_reader set to true) fails with IllegalStateException when 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.