Release 0.163

    • Improve performance for queries.

    • Improve exchange performance by reading from buffers in parallel.

    • Make ALL, SOME and non-reserved keywords.

    • Add from_big_endian_64() function.

    • Change return type from BIGINT to VARBINARY.

    • Improve EXPLAIN ANALYZE to render stats more accurately and to include input statistics.

    • Improve tolerance to communication errors for long running queries. This can be adjusted with the query.remote-task.max-error-duration config option.

    • Fix issue that could cause incorrect results for large rows.
    • Fix NullPointerException when a field contains a null.
    • Add support for VARBINARY, and REAL data types.

    • Fix issue that would prevent predicates from being pushed into Parquet reader.

    • Add experimental file based metastore which stores information in HDFS or S3 instead of a database.