Release 363-e STS (11 Oct 2021)#

Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) 363-e is the follow up release to the 361-e version. It includes all improvements from the following Trino project releases:

This release is a short term support (STS) release.

General#

  • Migrate the SEP container image from Centos7 to ubi-minimal.

  • New official BigQuery connector connector.

  • New official Starburst Iceberg connector connector with support for reads of ORC and Parquet formats.

  • Remove legacy usage metrics, replaced by Starburst Insights and query logger.

  • Improve performance of repeated aggregations with CASE expressions.

  • Fix locking of non-partitioned transactional tables.

  • Fix reading Parquet’s Decimal column statistics for predicate pushdown.

  • Add support for deprecated BITPACKING encoding for nulls in Parquet flat readers.

  • Fix incorrect result for comparisons between zero-valued decimals.

Security#

  • Fix security vulnerability in Okta authentication.

  • Add the new group command to the Starburst Ranger CLI.

  • Simplify the user command of the Starburst Ranger CLI.

Starburst Insights#

  • Add support for current and queued queries in query history.

  • Add support for saving tabs in query editor.

Starburst Stargate#

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Db2 connector#

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Delta Lake connector#

  • Add native optimization.

  • Fix reading Delta Lake multipart checkpoints.

Greenplum connector#

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Hive connector#

  • Improved support for CDP 7.1.7.

Oracle connector#

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Netezza connector#

  • Add password credential pass-through.

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Redshift connector#

  • Add support for AWS IAM authentication.

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

SAP HANA connector#

  • Add support for table scan redirections.

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

SingleStore (MemSQL) connector#

  • Add support for reading min and max value statistics for DATE and TIME types.

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Snowflake connector#

  • Add support for variable precision timestamp type TIMESTAMP(n).

  • Disable predicate pushdown on Snowflake ARRAY type.

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.

Teradata connector#

  • Add count(distinct x) aggregation push-down.