General Changes

• Fix incorrect results for certain queries involving FULL or RIGHT joins and LATERAL. (#1952)
• Fix incorrect results when using IS DISTINCT FROM on columns of DECIMAL type with precision larger than 18. (#1985)
• Fix query failure when row types contain a field named after a reserved SQL keyword. (#1963)
• Add support for LIKE predicate to SHOW SESSION and SHOW FUNCTIONS. (#1688, #1692)
• Add support for late materialization to join operations. (#1256)
• Reduce number of metadata queries during planning. This change disables stats collection for non-EXPLAIN queries. If you want to have access to such stats and cost in query completion events, you need to re-enable stats collection using the collect-plan-statistics-for-all-queries configuration property. (#1866)
• Add variant of strpos() that returns the Nth occurrence of a substring. (#1811)
• Add to_encoded_polyline() and from_encoded_polyline() geospatial functions. (#1827)

Web UI Changes

• Show actual query for an EXECUTE statement. (#1980)

Hive Changes

• Fix incorrect behavior of CREATE TABLE when Hive metastore is configured with metastore.create.as.acid set to true. (#1958)
• Fix query failure when reading Parquet files that contain character data without statistics. (#1955)
• Allow analyzing a subset of table columns (rather than all columns). (#1907)
• Support overwriting unpartitioned tables for insert queries when using AWS Glue. (#1243)
• Add support for reading Parquet files where the declared precision of decimal columns does not match the precision in the table or partition schema. (#1949)
• Improve performance when reading Parquet files with small row groups. (#1925)

Other Connector Changes

These changes apply to the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, and SQL Server connectors.

• Fix incorrect insertion of data when the target table has an unsupported type. (#1930)