Drill 1.21.2.0 (EEP 9.3.1) 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 1.21.2.0
Release Date October 2024
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 1.21.2.0 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
b09a839b93 2024-10-10 MD-6573: No results on right Hash Join with empty probe(left) side
00cb79f62f 2024-10-08 MD-6571: bump apache avro version to 1.11.4. CVE-2024-47561
78cfef14db 2024-09-24 MD-6557: ReduceAndSimplifyFilterRule fails with NullPointerException
2403c91b9b 2024-09-23 MD-6567: Use legacy JSON reader by default
87010f0964 2024-09-04 MD-6559: prevent Drill from creating a join-back plan for queries that have an equal filter for a primary key
9fd6868f74 2024-09-03 MD-6564: Separate client logs per user

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.