Add release notes for 0.253

[bhhari]

Missing Release Notes

Abhisek Gautam Saikia

• Support shutting down coordinator using /info/state endpoint #15992 Support shutting down coordinator using /info/state endpoint (Merged by: Timothy Meehan)

Eran Amar

• Eran/binomial functions #15812 Eran/binomial functions (Merged by: Rongrong Zhong)

Reetika Agrawal

• Adding schema access rules to file based system access control #15886 Adding schema access rules to file based system access control (Merged by: Rebecca Schlussel)

Zhongting Hu

• Hive Meta Store impersonation access #15736 Hive Meta Store impersonation access (Merged by: Andrii Rosa)

vaishnavibatni

• Revert "Do not create local projection for constant in PlanRemoteProj… #16021 Revert "Do not create local projection for constant in PlanRemoteProj… (Merged by: Maria Basmanova)

Extracted Release Notes

• Disable empty bucket file for temporary table #15932 (Author: Vic Zhang): Disable empty bucket file for temporary table
  • Set default value for configuration property hive.create-empty-bucket-files-for-temporary-table to false.
• Fix S3 directory detection based on ContentType header #16000 (Author: Naveen Kumar Mahadevuni): Fix S3 directory detection based on ContentType header
  • Fix S3 table creation error when the directory location specified was created from AWS console.
• Fix cumulativeUserMemory initial calculation & use double for cumulativeUserMemory consistently #16026 (Author: frankobe): Fix cumulativeUserMemory initial calculation & use double for cumulativeUserMemory consistently
  • Fix amplified Cumulative User Memory metrics calculation.
• Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator #16036 (Author: Vic Zhang): Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator
  • Track system memory used by column statistics in TableFinishOperator.
• Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator #16036 (Author: Vic Zhang): Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator
  • Track system memory used by column statistics in TableFinishOperator.
• Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator #16036 (Author: Vic Zhang): Improve memory usage in TableFinishOperator
  • Track system memory used by column statistics in TableFinishOperator.
• Update airlift to version 102 #16043 (Author: Dongliang Chen): Update airlift to version 102
  • Fix the version name displayed in the UI.

All Commits

• ff6484a Track system memory in TableFinishOperator (Vic Zhang)
• 6c161c1 Allow statisitcs page reset in LifespanAndStageState (Vic Zhang)
• eaafec0 Track column statistics only in recoverable mode (Vic Zhang)
• dbe485d Fix NPE in HiveSpiltManager when there are upper case letter in the partition columns (Beinan Wang)
• cd6ac2d Use HIVE_COMPATIBLE function for ORC format (Vic Zhang)
• 8c3542e Use PRESTO_NATIVE for hive unsupported type (Vic Zhang)
• 72a7afc Revert "Fix dynamic pruning for null keys in hive partition" (Ke Wang)
• f98c25e Bump Alluxio client version (Bin Fan)
• 5f4a45e Use getInt to avoid boxing in LookupJoinPageBuilder (James Petty)
• a87fe3d Fix Size Calculation in MapBlock (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 0925a96 Make HashTable computation Lazy in MapBlockBuilder (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 55f9927 Update the Sample output (Zhongting Hu)
• 07999c4 Add Split Detail into maxActiveSplits endpoint (Zhongting Hu)
• 7ee814c Move TableDescriptionSupplier to separate guice module (Yang Yang)
• bfcd99e Add binomial distribution functions (Eran Amar)
• 9543424 Disable empty bucket file for temporary table (Vic Zhang)
• 6058064 Fix loading config properties for temp storage (Vic Zhang)
• 3a28daf Avoid unnecessary variable for ConstantExpression in PlanRemoteProjections (Rongrong Zhong)
• c2c7b78 Move audience-annotations depencency to provided scope (Tim Meehan)
• 7a17553 Update airlift to version 102 (Dongliang Chen)
• eda728e Supporting adding additional modules to DistributedQueryRunner (Mayank Garg)
• 30cd883 Add more options to ColumnWriterOptions (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 969c847 Rename CompressionParameters to ColumnWriterOptions (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 1e08610 Adding session config: limit_larger_for_segment for Pinot connector (Xiang Fu)
• 35cfbd0 Materialized view partition stitching for Hive (Rohit Jain)
• 7e32c30 Enable query and node heartbeats to resource manager (Tim Meehan)
• ea52ee0 Fix cumulativeUserMemory initial calculation & use double for cumulativeUserMemory consistently (frankobe)
• b29aaa3 Support Hive Metastore access with impersonation (Zhongting Hu)
• d3c3445 Enumerate and serialize splits iteratively (Andrii Rosa)
• 1c2f7e0 Use zstd streams with no finalizer (Andrii Rosa)
• 6b5434f Revert "Do not create local projection for constant in PlanRemoteProjections" (vaishnavibatni)
• b80c82e Fix S3 directory detection based on ContentType header (Naveen Kumar Mahadevuni)
• ea8e5f4 Adding schema access rules to file based system access control (Reetika Agrawal)
• 4710def Add ResourceManagerClusterStateProvider (Tim Meehan)
• 6b36706 Support shutting down coordinator using /info/state endpoint (Abhisek Gautam Saikia)
• fc25cc4 Fix formatted query with PREPARE statement (Shixuan Fan)

[mayankgarg1990]

I don't think that these have been manually cleaned up and formatted yet - please ping on the PR once that is done

[bhhari]

@mayankgarg1990 @ajaygeorge please review, polished the release notes

[ajaygeorge]

Please check if there any features we can highlight and add it to the Highlights section.
If not please remove it.

Rest looking good.
Please generate the docs offline and test whether everything is rendered as expected before merging.

[mayankgarg1990]

just a few nits