Drill 1.21.2.360 (DEP 10.1.1) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Data Fabric distribution for Apache Drill. You may also be interested in the Apache Drill homepage and the Apache Drill release notes:

Version 1.21.2.360
Release Date July 2026
HPE Version Interoperability See Ecosystem Support Matrix and Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Package Names See Package Names for Ecosystem Packs (EEPs and DEPs)

New in This Release

Drill 1.21.2.360 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

  • CVE fixes
  • Bug fixes

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base Apache release:
Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
5cbf7031af 2026-07-13 MD-6681: override org.lz4:lz4-java with fork at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java version 1.11.1
abb9f15012 2026-07-13 MD-6686: exclude transitive spring dependecies
c17bbee5d1 2026-06-27 MD-6680: Upgrade log4j version from 2.23.1 to 2.26.0 due to CVEs
a00e4326a4 2026-04-16 MD-6675: Support SEARCH operator during index planning

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.