RisingWave Labs/risingwave: Release v1.7.0

Name: risingwave

Owner: RisingWave Labs

Release: v1.7.0

Released: 2024-02-29

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

• risectl-v1.7.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risectl-v1.7.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.dwp.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.dwp.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.7.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

• Query syntax:
  • Supports using * when creating a table or source with schema from an external connector to read all columns. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14644
  • Supports INCLUDE clause to add additional connector columns. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14215
  • Supports INCLUDE HEADER clause to specify desired keys in header and make it a column. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14628
• SQL commands:
  • Supports changing the schema registry by redefining the format_encode_options. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14057
• SQL functions & operators:
  • Adds experimental support for JavaScript UDF. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14513
  • Adds experimental support for Rust UDF. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14271
  • Supports implicit type cast for UDF. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14458
  • Supports named SQL UDF. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14806
  • Supports encrypt and decrypt functions. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14717
  • Supports make_date(), make_time(), and make_timestamp(). https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14827
• System catalog:
  • Change rw_streaming_parallelism to allow queries on streaming job parallelism with job name and type. Adds system view rw_fragment_parallelism to allow for queries on parallelism information at fragment level https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14789, https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14261
  • Adds relpersistence in pg_class catalog. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14400
  • Supports pg_get_viewdef() . https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14336

Connectors

• Cassandra and ScyllaDB sinks no longer support timestamp type. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14413
• Updates StarRocks sink connector parameters. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14823
• Introduces snapshot option to allow users to disable CDC backfill and to only consume from the latest changelog. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14718
• Sets the default value of transactional parameter to true for MySQL and Postgres CDC shared sources. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14899

Installation and deployment

[Pre-Release] Supports single_node node to run RisingWave in a single process.

Cluster configuration changes

• Introduce a session variable batch_enable_distributed_dml to enable batch ingesting. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14630
• Changes wording from AUTO to ADAPTIVE parallelism. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14414
• Supports adaptive scaling for streaming jobs by default. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14873

Full Changelog: https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0