Add release notes for 0.255

[jainxrohit]

Missing Release Notes

Chen

• Fix the import of SMALLINT in ParquetReader #16152 Fix the import of SMALLINT in ParquetReader (Merged by: Venki Korukanti)

Darren Fu

• Fix Config Validation #16164 Fix Config Validation (Merged by: Andrii Rosa)

Julian Zhuoran Zhao

• Implement efficient way to fetch partition name and values #16129 Implement efficient way to fetch partition name and values (Merged by: James Sun)

Shixuan Fan

• Revert "Support Dwrf Sequence Ids in Writer" #16204 Revert "Support Dwrf Sequence Ids in Writer" (Merged by: Shixuan Fan)

Extracted Release Notes

• Skip Unsupported datatype from Object field in ES connector #15617 (Author: Reetika Agrawal): Skip Unsupported datatype from Object field in ES connector
  • Fix to avoid NullPointerException when there is an unsupported data type column in the Object field.
• Fix and turn on Cassandra product tests #15842 (Author: v-jizhang): Fix and turn on Cassandra product tests
  • Add support for Cassandra SMALLINT, TINYINT and DATE types and fix tests.
• Reject @BeforeMethod in Multi-threaded tests #15914 (Author: v-jizhang): Reject @BeforeMethod in Multi-threaded tests
  • Reject @BeforeMethod in Multi-threaded tests.
• Support non-lowercase table names in Druid connector #15920 (Author: Jalpreet Singh Nanda (:imjalpreet)): Support non-lowercase table names in Druid connector
  • Add support for querying non-lowercase table names in Druid connector (:pr:15920).
• Add support for static AWS credentials in GlueHiveMetastore #15950 (Author: v-jizhang): Add support for static AWS credentials in GlueHiveMetastore
  • Add support for static AWS credentials in GlueHiveMetastore :doc:/connector/hive.
• Add Connection Params for JDBC HTTP Protocol #15955 (Author: Andrew Donley): Add Connection Params for JDBC HTTP Protocol
  • Added connection param "protocols" that allows a user to specify which HTTP protocols the Presto client is allowed to use.
• Add support for custom query prerequisite logic #16073 (Author: Mayank Garg): Add support for custom query prerequisite logic
  • Add support for custom query prerequisites to be checked and satisfied through QueryPrerequisites interface. See :pr:16073.
• Add support for custom query prerequisite logic #16073 (Author: Mayank Garg): Add support for custom query prerequisite logic
  • Add support for custom query prerequisites to be checked and satisfied through QueryPrerequisites interface. See :pr:16073.
• Use searchInterruptible for Joni regexp matching #16109 (Author: Sreeni Viswanadha): Use searchInterruptible for Joni regexp matching
  • Fix an issue where regular expression functions were not interruptible and could keep running for a long time after the query they were a part of failed.
• Interrupt runaway splits #16111 (Author: Ariel Weisberg): Interrupt runaway splits
  • Add interruption for runaway splits blocked in known situations controlled by task.interrupt-runaway-splits-timeout property which defaults to 600s.
• Implement ARRAY_NORMALIZE function #16159 (Author: Zhan Yuan): Implement ARRAY_NORMALIZE function
  • Added array_normalize function.

All Commits

• fe48d86 Adding a counter to track TaskUpdateRequest size (Basar Hamdi Onat)
• 42590d8 Revert "Support Dwrf Sequence Ids in Writer" (Shixuan Fan)
• 6ea61ba Reduce memory usage in Analysis getter (prithvip)
• 7f77473 Fix NPE when desc table in iceberg connector (beinan)
• afbfd21 Use double quotes for all field names within struct in SHOW CREATE TABLE. (Abhisek Gautam Saikia)
• 9095346 Implement ARRAY_NORMALIZE function (Zhan Yuan)
• faf0cfe Temporarily disable test (Tim Meehan)
• 4cc76de Add resource manager profile to presto-tests and enable in CI (Tim Meehan)
• 96c1a22 Fix TestDistributedQueryResource (Tim Meehan)
• 867dd6f Fix TestDistributedClusterStatsResource (Tim Meehan)
• 5865c76 Add StripeMetadataSource implementation working with DwrfStripeCache (Sergii Druzkin)
• 8490706 Avoid shaded guava imports in Presto on Spark codebase (Andrii Rosa)
• 6a02575 Add 0.253.1 release notes (Mayank Garg)
• add05d0 Add Connection Params for JDBC HTTP Protocol (Andrew Donley)
• 02bb379 Fix Config Validation issue (Darren Fu)
• 42b9ef8 Implement case-insensitive name matching for Druid (Jalpreet Singh Nanda (:imjalpreet))
• 269758c Avoid accidental H2 databse name collisions when using System.nanoTime() (James Petty)
• 59b469c Add StripeMetadataSourceFactory to consume loaded DWRF stripe cache (Sergii Druzkin)
• 5706c39 Revert "Use segmented Slice in SliceDictionaryWriter" (Andrii Rosa)
• 278e87d Revert "Make HashTable computation Lazy in MapBlockBuilder" (Andrii Rosa)
• 91ef9de Revert "Fix Size Calculation in MapBlock" (Andrii Rosa)
• 058be9c Log warning on Unsupported datatype from Object field in ES connector (Reetika Agrawal)
• aff4a75 Refactor OrcWriterOptions to builder pattern (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• ac6187d Remove duplicate UtcEquivalentName check from TimeZoneKey (henneberger)
• 8e8a546 Interrupt runaway splits in known locations (Ariel Weisberg)
• 399d809 Upgrade airlift dependency to 0.201 (Abhisek Gautam Saikia)
• f93db75 Improve type errors messages for structs (Amit Adhikari)
• 127949e Add iceberg connector doc (Chunxu Tang)
• 1463e68 Fix the import of SMALLINT in ParquetReader (Chen)
• a178e5d Add support for static AWS credentials in GlueHiveMetastore (v-jizhang)
• 27f338e Fix PartitionMutator not bound error during server start (beinan)
• edcc4f7 Add iceberg connector to devel configs (beinan)
• 96a9aca Add predicate stitching for more nodes (Rohit Jain)
• 56c5e52 Reject @BeforeMethod in Multi-threaded tests (v-jizhang)
• f38548b Fix and turn on Cassandra product tests (v-jizhang)
• cc944e2 Fix MySQL connection failure on startup (Ariel Weisberg)
• bf94d65 Add support to introduce custom prerequisite waiting logic (Mayank Garg)
• b011a55 Add new query state WAITING_FOR_PREREQUISITES (Mayank Garg)
• e20b4b6 Use searchInterruptible so that we can interrupt runaway regexp matching thread. (Sreeni Viswanadha)
• 0aeca14 Implement efficient way to fetch partition name and values (Julian Zhuoran Zhao)
• 72d7145 Make NodeTaskMap inner classes static (James Petty)

[ajaygeorge]

@tdcmeehan / @rschlussel can we merge this PR now.

[mayankgarg1990]

last nit, but good overall :)