RisingWave Labs/risingwave: Release v1.8.0

Name: risingwave

Owner: RisingWave Labs

Release: v1.8.0

Released: 2024-04-03

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

• risectl-v1.8.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risectl-v1.8.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.dwp.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-aarch64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.dwp.tar.gz

• risingwave-v1.8.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.gz

For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

• Query syntax:
  • Supports RANGE frames in window function calls. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14416
• SQL commands:
  • Adds support for embedded Rust UDFs. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14903
  • Adds support for embedded Python UDFs. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15168
  • Supports refreshing the schema of a table created using an external connection to get the latest schema. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15025
  • Supports refreshing the schema of a source to get the latest schema. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15541
  • Adds a description column to the system parameters table. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15113
  • Supports authenticating with OAuth token acquired from the Cloud when creating a user. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/13151
• SQL functions & operators:
  • Supports ruby-pg. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14859
  • Supports VARIADIC arguments for the functions format, concat_ws, jsonb_build_array, jsonb_build_object, jsonb_extract_path, jsonb_extract_path_text. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14753
  • Supports concat function. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14753
• System catalog:
  • Adds missing columns for  pg_catalog.pg_index, rw_catalog.rw_columns and information_schema.columns, and system view pg_catalog.pg_partitioned_table. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15151
  • Supports pg_catalog.pg_constraint for DBeaver compatibility. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15227
  • Supports pg_catalog.pg_stat_get_numscans for DBeaver. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15642
  • Supports system table rw_depend. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15385
  • Supports pg_settings catalog. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15108

Connectors

• Breaking change: Sinks created from v1.6 and earlier that have decouple enabled may cause compatibility issues. Check if you have any sinks with this configuration by using the internal table rw_sink_decouple before upgrading to v1.8. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15613
• Avro tables and sources now require a schema registry during creation. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15256
• Supports using Karapace when specifying a schema registry. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15486
• Supports Protobuf data format for NATS JetStream source. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15378
• Supports FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE BYTES for NATS source connector. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15806
• Supports Confluent schema registry for Kafka sinks when using FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE PROTOBUF. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15546
• Adds Kafka sink and source parameter enable.ssl.certificate.verification. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15073
• Supports max_batch_rows and  request_timeout parameters for Cassandra and ScyllaDB sources. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15516
• Adds built-in MongoDB CDC source connector. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14966
• Adds ignore_option parameter for sources created using Debezium format. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15304
• Supports batch read from Iceberg source. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15214
• Supports automatically deriving columns from Iceberg source. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15415
• Supports JDBC catalog for Iceberg sources. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/15551
• Adds JDBC and Hive catalogs for Iceberg sink. https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/14885

Installation and deployment

Supports tab-completion for SET and ALTER SYSTEM SET commands in psql client. feat(frontend): support tab-completion for [ALTER SYSTEM] SET

Full Changelog: https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0