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Version: 24.3.x

24.x Release Notes

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Releases are listed in reverse order, starting with the latest release of Dremio 24.x.

24.3.15 (November 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • Added a new SQL function TRY_CONVERT_FROM to support converting a JSON to a user-specified type. NULL is returned when the JSON cannot be converted.

    DX-94338

  • The SQL function CONVERT_FROM for JSON now supports nested fields in ROW and STRUCT data types as input.

    DX-94336

Issues Fixed​

  • Creating a Parquet table containing a mixed type column with a typeless child list no longer fails with an IndexOutOfBoundsException. Before writing the Parquet table, typeless child lists in mixed-type columns are now filtered out, because Parquet requires all lists to be strongly typed.

    DX-89811

  • Changed dataset owners now correctly appear in the Details panel.

    DX-97037

  • Fixed a rare issue where decorrelating a subquery with an EXISTS statement and an empty GROUP BY clause could result in incorrect data.

    DX-96652, DX-96946

  • Fixed an issue that could cause ALTER TABLE to fail with a "Schema change detected" error when using the SQL command to drop and re-add a column with an incompatible type. Reporting has also improved for any instance where data cannot be coerced to the user-defined column type.

    DX-87232

  • Fixed an issue that could return a null value for a SELECT query on a column when schema learning is disabled and the column type is incompatible with the column values. When the table schema is inconsistent with the data, an error will now be reported to recommend that you enable schema learning so Dremio can properly manage the schema based on the data.

    DX-88577

24.3.14 (October 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue where queries could be stuck in planning and accumulate until a coordinator restart is required.

    DX-94146

  • Incompatible runtime filters are now ignored so as to avoid an UnsupportedOperationException while setting up Parquet readers.

    DX-90910

24.3.13 (October 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that could cause an "Unable to find the reference field" error during query planning due to Common Subexpression Elimination (CSE).

    DX-90660

  • Fixed an issue that could cause some queries against INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables to fail when filtering columns by LOWER, UPPER, LCASE, or UCASE expressions.

    DX-93900

  • Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate or triplicate result sets to be returned when querying against MongoDB sources.

    DX-96251

24.3.12 (September 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • SELECT queries in CREATE TABLE AS and INSERT/SELECT statements now use reflections to accelerate the queries.
    DX-94311

Issues Fixed​

  • The option to enable single sign-on for Tableau is now disabled by default.

    DX-93910

  • Fixed a performance issue for Iceberg tables that could occur when Dremio reads position delete files. Previously, a position delete file could be accessed multiple times by different scan threads. Now all delete rows are read once and joined with the data files.

    DX-92450

  • Fixed the NullPointerException in RowGroups querying Parquet files with incomplete stats.

    DX-95188

  • Fixed the rare NullPointerException in NamespaceTable$1.getRowCount() that could occur during incremental metadata refresh.

    DX-94944

24.3.11 (August 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that could cause VACUUM CATALOG to fail with a ContainerNotFoundException exception. Also fixed a bug that could cause VACUUM CATALOG to fail with IllegalArgumentException if a view is created in a Nessie catalog.

    DX-93461, DX-94427

  • Added limits for option manager cache size and set expiration for items in the cache.

    DX-91244

24.3.10 (August 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • Dremio now assigns 999 as the group ID (GID) and user ID (UID) for dremio:dremio at Docker image build time.
    DX-94444

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent partition columns from being applied in INSERT and CREATE TABLE AS statements.

    DX-83067

  • Fixed an issue when reading Delta Lake checkpoint files for partitioned tables that could result in 0 rows returned.

    DX-92976

24.3.9 (August 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • Dremio now supports the newline character \n in regular expression (regex) matching for the LIKE SQL function.
    DX-82992

Issues Fixed​

  • Queries no longer fail if an underlying default raw reflection becomes invalid for substitution against the view.

    DX-85139

  • Reflections with complex type fields no longer show an unavailable status after a successful refresh.

    DX-93493

  • Fixed a bug for complex queries that could result in an error message about the code being too large.

    DX-90491

  • The dremio-admin backup argument -a, --accept-all now allows requests to secure deployments with self-generated certificates and ignores invalid and untrusted certificates.

    DX-92358

  • Accessing nested fields from a complex-type field no longer results in slow performance.

    DX-92588

  • Fixed a performance issue that affected queries that contain many GET calls for large arrays.

    DX-61308

  • The MongoDB driver now uses server selection timeout on cluster settings rather than connect and read timeouts on socket settings to prevent timeout exception errors.

    DX-85189

  • Fixed an issue with unlimited splits that could result in duplicate metadata entries for Parquet files.

    DX-91849

  • Usernames in Arrow Flight JDBC/ODBC and Legacy JDBC/ODBC jobs are now shown in the same consistent case regardless of the case in the connection URL.

    DX-41303

  • Fixed an issue that could result in incorrect row group pruning when the statistics are empty for Parquet files.

    DX-90854

  • Dremio now reads only the required fields from complex structure-type columns. For example, if column1 in tableA is type {'a':1, 'b':2} and you run the query SELECT column1.a from tableA, Dremio only reads field a from column1.

    DX-93643

24.3.8 (July 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • Added a new Dataset API endpoint, POST /dataset/{id}/reflection/recommendation/{type}, for retrieving reflection recommendations by reflection type for a dataset.
    DX-89497

Issues Fixed​

  • The query planner no longer fails for queries that use experimental settings related to the bushy join optimizer.

    DX-91859

  • To prevent unexpected out-of-memory errors, the Parquet vectorized reader allocates only the necessary amount of memory for scanning deeply nested structures.

    DX-90471

  • Fixed the NullPointerException (NPE) in logging while refreshing metadata for Delta Lake tables.

    DX-89302

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Hive sources that use assumed roles from running asynchronous queries via the "Enable asynchronous access for Parquet datasets" option.

    DX-84153

  • Exiting the Reflections tab in Settings for tables and views no longer results in an unsaved-changes warning.

    DX-91719

  • Fixed an issue that could result in a NullPointerException when running a DML statement on an accelerated table.

    DX-91682

  • You can now enable the planner.enhanced_filter_join_guardrail support key to prevent an infinite loop as a guardrail for EnhancedFilterJoinRule.

    DX-91532

  • The CONVERT_TIMEZONE SQL function now works properly for Druid data sources.

    DX-90669

  • Fixed a bug that could cause the default selected columns for raw reflections to fail to include all columns of a dataset.

    DX-89497

  • In the Dremio console, resolved an issue that could prevent spaces from expanding to display their contents in the Datasets panel.

    DX-87317 DX-92284

  • Fixed a rare NPE that could occur when accessing large Delta Lake tables in metastore sources.

    DX-67629

  • In the Workload Management API, the default rule is now included in responses to requests to retrieve all rules for new clusters.

    DX-90072

  • Fixed an issue that could cause queries to fail during planning with the error "Job was canceled because the query is too complex".

    DX-92283

24.3.7 (June 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Updated the following library to address potential security issues:

    DX-91055

    • org.postgresql:postgresql to version 42.4.5 [CVE-2024-1597]

  • Reduced the logging level of an internal catalog class to prevent server logs from being flooded with spurious messages.

    DX-88784

  • For Iceberg tables in Hive data sources, table properties are now saved properly.

    DX-90551

  • For MongoDB tables, Dremio now adds an exclusive projection to queries if no projection exists and properly excludes dropped fields from queries. This resolves issues involving maximum field size and leaf nodes and potentially improves performance.

    DX-85874

  • Reading a Delta Lake table no longer results in an error about an invalid Parquet file.

    DX-79957

  • When a reflection with manual refresh status fails to refresh because it is not available for acceleration, users will now see a red failure icon instead of a yellow warning icon in the Dremio console.

    DX-71027

  • Reflections no longer produce incorrect results due to incorrectly matching into queries that include the ROLLUP option.

    DX-90879

24.3.6 (May 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • For MapR deployments, removed configuration properties MAPR_MAX_RA_STREAMS and MAPR_IMPALA_RA_THROTTLE from the dremio start script and from the code responsible for Yarn configuration.

    DX-88701

  • Fixed a bug that could result in an "out of memory" error when running dremio-admin clean -o.

    DX-90073

  • Fixed FileNotFoundException for unlimited splits.

    DX-90924

  • Fixed an issue where the TO_DATE function was used with invalid options.

    DX-90413

  • Fixed an error where planning a query could fail with a "Cannot add expression to different types of set" message.

    DX-90032

  • Updated Oracle to use OJDBC8 driver for Dremio 24.3.x versions.

    DX-90906

  • Nested boolean fields are no longer pushed down to a MongoDB source under particular circumstances.

    DX-90105

24.3.5 (April 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • When users update a reflection using the Reflections API, the createdAt value is no longer updated.

    DX-89278

  • The view owner is now properly listed in the Dremio console when it is changed.

    DX-88705

  • Fixed an issue with case-sensitivity that caused delayed processing of inherited privileges.

    DX-88683

  • Promoted datasets with inconsistent partition depth no longer occasionally throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when filtering against deeper partitions.

    DX-88365

  • Dremio now uses multiple writers in parallel for non-partitioned table optimization. The small files generated during the writing are combined by another round of writing with a single writer.

    DX-88174

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE statements ending with semicolons are now supported in the SQL Runner.

    DX-85903

  • Dremio field size limits now apply properly for the output of the ARRAY_AGG SQL function.

    DX-87000

  • (AWSE only) Fixed an issue that resulted in an UnsupportedOperationException error when users clicked to query a dataset.

    DX-89390

24.3.4 (March 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

Issues Fixed​

  • SQL functions now work properly in queries on system tables.

    DX-52626

  • When you open a table from the SQL Runner by clicking , Dremio now displays the correct table definition.

    DX-87438

  • On the Queues page under Settings > Queues, alphabetical sorting for the Engine Name column now works properly.

    DX-87086

  • Fixed a row-count estimation issue that could result in a NullPointerException when an estimate cannot be provided.

    DX-69646

  • To reduce cache contention with other query workloads, C3 caching is disabled when loading Parquet source files via the COPY operation.

    DX-85365

  • Reflections with user-defined functions (UDFs) that contain context-sensitive functions can no longer be created.

    DX-86078

  • Performance is improved and memory consumption is reduced for some INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries that filter on TABLE_NAME or TABLE_SCHEMA.

    DX-87580

  • Users who do not belong to the ADMIN role cannot view the User filter or the list of users on the Jobs page.

    DX-87660

  • Fixed an issue that caused the details of jobs not to be updated in the Dremio console when jobs were running.

    DX-86983

  • Fixed an issue in the SQL Runner where expanding the large data field by using the ellipsis (...) caused the results to be unresponsive when the data included DateTime objects.

    DX-86541

  • Fixed incorrect column mapping within MERGE statements that could lead to incorrect merge results.

    DX-86919

  • Fixed an issue with snapshot-based incremental reflection refresh for unlimited-split datasets on Hive that could result in excessive heap usage due to metadata access during reflection refresh.

    DX-88194

  • The Add Folder icon now displays properly when the ui.upload.allow support key is turned off.

    DX-88148

  • Fixed a bug that prevented script names from being saved after users rename a tab and edit the SQL content.

    DX-86751

  • For folders that contain views that were created or updated using the CREATE OR REPLACE SQL command, users can now open the folders in the Dremio console even if the view's name has changed.

    DX-86125

  • Save As View now works properly after saving the view previously in the SQL editor.

    DX-85904

  • Background threads no longer run when a query in the SQL Runner is cancelled or fails.

    DX-85812

  • Navigating between datasets using the lineage graph in the Dremio console no longer results in a message about unsaved changes.

    DX-87876

  • To get a count of the number of rows in a table, Dremio now requests an estimated document count rather than aggregating the document. As a result, Dremio can retrieve the count more quickly.

    DX-88043

  • Authentication with a secret resource URL now works properly for Amazon Redshift, Oracle, and PostgreSQL data sources.
    DX-88293

24.3.3 (February 2024) Enterprise​

What's New​

Issues Fixed​

  • Creating user-defined functions (UDFs) that reference UDFs outside of the root context no longer fails with the error UnsupportedOperationException: Failed to match SQL Operators for: <UDF_NAME>.

    DX-86836

  • Automatic Nessie maintenance and the manual dremio-admin nessie-maintenance command are now available in Dremio AWSE.

    DX-56534

  • When a user executes the COPY INTO SQL command but does not have the necessary privileges, Dremio now raises an exception that indicates the source-storage location or source file on which the user lacks privileges.

    DX-85977

  • Dremio now reduces scan-column output when possible.

    DX-86355

  • The planning of queries on views that use an INTERVAL data type no longer fails.

    DX-86315

  • Fixed an issue that could cause RocksDB to consume too much storage space when you add, update, or delete datasets.

    DX-86414

  • Query-planning times are now shorter during the metadata-validation phase.

    DX-86504

  • Row-type matching of EmptyRel nodes now works properly.

    DX-85401

  • Switching between tabs in the SQL Runner no longer results in a dialog that indicates a failed query.

    DX-85401

  • Queries that reference multiple nullable columns in OR conditions no longer return incorrect results.

    DX-85581

  • Dremio now optimizes how LIMIT 0 and filters that evaluate to false are represented in query plans.

    DX-74000

  • The values in VALUES clauses are now honored at the precision defined in the query, rather than being deserialized with only DOUBLE or BIGINT precision.

    DX-84406

  • The performance of health checks for AWS Glue Data Catalog sources has been improved with checks of the state of the metastore and attempts to retrieve databases with a specified maximum result limit for 1.

    DX-85641

  • Cancelled queries now immediately stop reading data from data sources.

    DX-69759

  • Queries against Iceberg tables with positional deletes no longer fail with an error such as The current delta should always be larger than the amount of values to skip.

    DX-85123

  • If a query used in a reflection contains a user-defined function (UDF), reflection refreshes no longer fail with a plan-serialization error.

    DX-66628

  • Fixed an issue that caused queries to fail with the error IllegalArgumentException: No decimal present.

    DX-85876

24.3.2 (January 2024)​

Issues Fixed​

  • The known issue for AWSE deployments described in the 24.3.1 release notes is now resolved.

    DX-86442

  • In the sys.jobs_recent system table, the error_msg column now contains any applicable error summaries. Also, the final_state_epoch_millis and final_state_ts columns contain the correct values for jobs that reach a final state.

    DX-83529
    DX-85751

  • If you run a subset of queries in the SQL Runner, and any of the queries in the subset fails, Dremio now properly identifies the queries that fail with a red wavy underline.

    DX-85901

  • Unneeded columns are now trimmed from JDBC pushdowns.

    DX-85187

  • Fixed an issue that could occur when an appropriate correlated field was selected for correlated sub-queries.

    DX-85193

  • To improve per-engine configurability for executor autoscaling, you can now configure a graceful termination period for each engine to allow time for any running queries to complete before the engine shuts down and cancels the running queries.

    DX-86012

  • Dremio now removes expired snapshots of metadata tables when using unlimited splits.

    DX-69752

24.3.1 (January 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Reflections now accelerate properly after upgrade.

    DX-85167

  • Reflections with the UNIX_TIMESTAMP SQL function no longer result in an exception.

    DX-85994

  • The Go to Table () icon now appears on the Datasets page for tables and views when the Query on click preference is disabled.

    DX-85964

  • Fixed an issue where queries containing correlated subqueries in the join condition could return duplicate rows.

    DX-83748

  • Queries no longer fail on MongoDB collections that contain a field with both double and decimal128 type values.

    DX-85679

  • Resolved a path travel security issue that bypassed folder-level role-based access control (RBAC).

    DX-84516

  • Fixed an issue that caused subqueries with a SINGLE_VALUE aggregate to fail with AssertionError Cannot add expression of different type to set.

    DX-85208

  • Row-level runtime filtering is disabled for reflection refresh jobs so that views no longer return incorrect results due to an incorrect match to a single Starflake reflection.

    DX-68144

Known Issues​

  • Creating user-defined functions (UDFs) that reference UDFs outside of the root context fails with the error UnsupportedOperationException: Failed to match SQL Operators for: <UDF_NAME>.

  • For AWSE deployments, if you upgrade to 24.3.1 from any 24.2.x release, you may encounter the following error:

    Error Message: AWSE Deployments Upgrading from a 24.2.x Release 
    Completed EFS mounting
    Completed EFS attachment to EC2
    Starting Services
    Failed to start Services. Failure while starting services. Failure reading configuration file. The following properties were invalid: paths.copyintoerrors

    Before you upgrade

    To avoid the error, remove the following line from /opt/dremio/conf/dremio.conf before you run the AWSE upgrade:

    paths.copyintoerrors = "dremioS3:///dremio-xxxxxxxxxx/dremio/copyintoerrors"

    Resolve the error if you already upgraded

    If you already upgraded and encountered the error, follow these steps:

    1. Restore your AWSE 24.2.x installation.

    2. Remove the following line from /opt/dremio/conf/dremio.conf:

      paths.copyintoerrors = "dremioS3:///dremio-xxxxxxxxxx/dremio/copyintoerrors"

    3. Stop Dremio and re-run the AWSE upgrade to 24.3.1.

    If you do not have a backup, contact Dremio technical support to discuss the steps outlined in the knowledge-base article AWSE upgrade fails with "The following properties were invalid: paths.copyintoerror".

24.3.0 (December 2023)​

What's New​

  • The new system table sys.jobs_recent shows the metadata for jobs that ran in the Dremio instance during the previous number of days specified by the support key jobs.max.age_in_days. For more information, see SYS.JOBS_RECENT.
    DX-51926
  • You can now use the ON_ERROR option in the COPY INTO command to specify what to do (abort or continue) if an error is encountered during the loading process when you are loading data from CSV or JSON files.
    DX-59094
  • You can use table properties to configure many aspects of Iceberg tables. The full list of table properties is here. Dremio supports a following subset of table properties, which you can set when you create or alter an Iceberg table. To view the properties that are set for a table, use the SQL command SHOW TBLPROPERTIES.
    DX-61128
  • A row group filter has been added to scans of Parquet tables, which helps with the pruning row groups.
    DX-61349
  • Dremio is now capable of reading Parquet V2 files with the vectorized reader, which significantly decreases the scanning time of such files. Writing Parquet V2 files is also available by using the support option "store.parquet.writer.version". The available values are "v1 and "v2". The default value is "v1".
    DX-63377
  • The VACUUM CATALOG command removes expired snapshots and orphaned metadata files for all Iceberg tables in the specified Nessie catalog source.
    DX-63380
    DX-67847
  • This release includes a number of changes to improve performance and row count estimates when working with Delta Lake tables.
    DX-65077
  • If a query returns limited results in the SQL Runner, there will be a warning notification above the results table. The number of rows will indicate a range rather than an exact number and have a tooltip to explain the limited results.
    DX-65151
  • When using operations like CTAS, INSERT, and MERGE (and others) on Iceberg tables that have a sort column, the data is written to the table in the order defined by that column. You can define one or more sort columns by using the LOCALSORT BY clause.
    DX-65553
  • This release adds support for the following SQL functions: ARRAY_AGG, ARRAY_CAT, ARRAY_COMPACT, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_GENERATE_RANGE, ARRAYS_OVERLAP, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_REMOVE_AT, ARRAY_SIZE, ARRAY_TO_STRING, SET_UNION, ARRAY_APPEND, ARRAY_PREPEND, ARRAY_SLICE.
    DX-66446
    DX-67713
    DX-68083
    DX-71570
    DX-68793
    DX-68082
    DX-68069
    DX-68612
  • Dremio can automatically choose incremental refresh or full refresh for reflections that are defined on these types of datasets filesystem, Glue, and Hive sources:
    • Parquet datasets in Filesystem sources (on S3, ADLS, GCS, or HDFS)
    • Parquet datasets, Avro datasets, or non-transactional ORC datasets on Glue or Hive (Hive 2 or Hive 3) sources
      DX-67226
  • Dictionary encoding is now enabled by default for Parquet files.
    DX-67234
  • Snapshots of reflections that are refreshed incrementally are automatically deleted when they are no longer used.
    DX-67756
  • Planning time with reflections has been significantly improved. Acceleration profile now contains a detailed breakdown of reflection normalization and substitution times.
    DX-68120
  • Dremio now recommends partition columns for reflections in the Advanced reflections editor.
    DX-68214
  • When a reflection cannot be recommended for a query, the ID of the job that ran the query is included in the error message.
    DX-68571
  • The COPY INTO command now supports Parquet files.
    DX-68624
  • The COPY INTO command supports two new format options for CSV source files: EXTRACT_HEADER and SKIP_LINES.
    DX-68717
  • Support has been added for offset values greater than 1 for the LEAD and LAG window functions.
    DX-68730
  • Improved the visual profiler by including information, such as data skew, estimation accuracy, and disk spilling, that can be useful for diagnostics.
    DX-68851
  • You can now use tabs in the SQL Runner to work on multiple tasks simultaneously. All of your work in each tab is autosaved.
    DX-68951
  • You can see a view definition or Nessie table definition if you have the SELECT privilege, although editing a view definition requires further privileges.
    DX-68952
  • Support has been added for SHOW CREATE VIEW to see a view definition and SHOW CREATE TABLE to see a table definition. For more information, see SHOW CREATE VIEW and SHOW CREATE TABLE.
    DX-68952
  • The support key reflection.manager.auto_refresh_failed for rebuilding the materialization of reflections after an upgrade is no longer needed and has been removed.
    DX-71973
  • Dremio Arctic and all of its related features are no longer in preview mode.
    DX-82613
  • You can now see syntax errors in your SQL query as you enter the query into the SQL editor. Each error is automatically detected with a red wavy underline and contains information about the type of error. For more information, see Syntax Error Highlighting.
    DX-82679
  • The dataset details panel in the SQL runner no longer overlays the right side of the SQL runner and the catalog page. Whenever it is opened, the width of the page is reduced so that controls are not hidden.
    DX-82691
  • The COPY INTO command now supports specifying which Nessie branch or reference the target table is in.
    DX-83269
  • The Save As View dialog now allows you to create a folder while saving a view.
    DX-83562
  • New in dremio-cloud-tools:

    • Dremio executor nodes now have new two configuration variables for use only in the context of autoscaling on Kubernetes:

      VariableDefault
      node_lifecycle_service_enabledFalse
      dremio.termination_grace_period_seconds5

      Enabling the lifecycle service forces the executor to continue to process existing in-flight queries even after a SIGTERM is received. It continues for a duration up to the value specified by dremio.termination_grace_period_seconds. This ensures clean completion of work in the event of executor scale down.

      DC-58905

    • A larger PVC volume is now used for the KVStore by default.

      DX-85624

    • Changes were made to the Liveliness probe to work around a bug in the source ZooKeeper image. The bug is reported here.

      DX-85280

  • These terms were added to the list of reserved keywords: JSON_ARRAY, JSON_ARRAYAGG, JSON_EXISTS, JSON_OBJECT, JSON_OBJECTAGG, JSON_QUERY, and JSON_VALUE.

Issues Fixed​

  • Dremio now reads invalid values in date and timestamp partition columns as null in conformity with Hive.
    DX-24014
  • Fixed an issue with the default Jobs results cleanup path that was resulting in disk space issues and unexpected restarts on some cluster nodes.
    DX-41291
  • Changing the size of an existing EC2 engine on Dremio's AWS Edition was resetting the engine type.
    DX-54590
  • If a source owner is removed from Dremio, another user with permission to the source can now promote datasets and change the source configuration in place of the owner that was removed.
    DX-58562
  • Fixed a number of issues that were affecting proper handling of inferred partition columns, specifically FOR PARTITIONS (...) was not working for inferred partition columns.
    DX-60565
  • Using AES_DECRYPT with an incorrect key was causing Dremio to restart unexpectedly instead of providing an error with a clear description of the issue.
    DX-61688
  • Some queries that contained large IN conditions were failing with a stack overflow error.
    DX-62755
  • Fixed an issue that was causing certain queries to fail when using hash joins, leading to an unexpected restart of an executor.
    DX-63029
  • Fixed the following issues with acceleration information in job profiles when the plan cache was used: acceleration information was missing for a prepared query, plan cache usage was missing for a prepared query, acceleration information was missing when the query was not accelerated but reflections were considered, and canonicalized user query alternatives were missing. Additionally, matching hints were missing for reflections that were only considered.
    DX-64636
  • The space overhead of metadata for Text, JSON, and Excel datasets has been reduced.
    DX-65640
  • Fixed an issue with partitions on these types of datasets. Metadata refresh could be triggered even when nothing had changed.
    • Parquet datasets in Filesystem sources (on S3, ADLS, GCS, or HDFS)
    • Parquet datasets, Avro datasets, or non-transactional ORC datasets on Glue or Hive (Hive 2 or Hive 3) sources
      DX-66548
  • Plans for queries containing CONVERT_FROM could not be cached.
    DX-66675
  • Fixed a few issues with acceleration info in job profile when plan cache is used.
    DX-66930
  • The AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions will now return an error if the key length is not 16, 24, or 32 characters.
    DX-67209
  • Dremio was allowing invalid Parquet files to be promoted, resulting in a DATA_READ ERROR: Failed to decode column error when a SELECT was run against a file.
    DX-67631
  • Upgraded io.netty:netty-handler to 4.1.96 to address a potential security issue [CVE-2023-34462].
    DX-67936
  • Dremio queries in some Tableau executors would start failing after the access token had expired and been renewed.
    DX-68133
  • Row-level runtime filtering is disabled for reflection refresh jobs so that views no longer return incorrect results due to an incorrect match to a single Starflake reflection.
    DX-68144
  • In some cases, running ALTER TABLE <table_path> FORGET METADATA against a view could result in the view being deleted instead of the command failing with an error.
    DX-68202
  • Dremio can now format DeltaLake tables that have large schemas.
    DX-68667
  • Fixed an issue that caused incremental refreshes to fail when encountering the FLATTEN SQL function.
    DX-68750
  • Added support for the following regions in the AWS Glue source:
    • ap-south-2: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
    • ap-southeast-3: Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
    • ap-southeast-4: Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
    • eu-south-2: EU (Spain)
    • eu-central-2: EU (Zurich)
    • me-central-1: Middle East (UAE)
      DX-69347
  • For some browsers, an interruption in connectivity can cause a failure in updating the status of long-running queries.
    DX-69909
  • AWSE backups were failing when a custom created EBS volume was manually attached to a Dremio instance.
    DX-70889
  • Fixed an issue with spillable hash join where left join with extra condition was giving incorrect results.
    DX-79862
  • Metadata on AWS Glue sources was not being refreshed according to the schedule defined on the source. In some cases, new data was only seen after running ALTER TABLE <table> REFRESH METADATA.
    DX-82900
  • Reflection and query plan caches are now cleared when they are disabled to ensure that queries do not use a deprecated reflection.
    DX-83117
  • Fixed an issue with node endpoint checks that could cause restart of coordinators in certain cases.
    DX-83120
  • It was possible for LIMIT queries to use only one thread for execution.
    DX-83289
  • Dremio was unable to read and query AWS Glue table partitions if partition column names or partition values contained spaces or other special characters.
    DX-83517
  • Fixed the issue of inserting large number of values, which was hitting stack issues, by constructing a balanced Union subtree.
    DX-83775
  • Upgrading to 24.3.0 from earlier versions of Dremio (24.1.4 and 24.2.0 through 24.2.4) could result in Glue regions changing within sources.
    DX-83895
  • In some circumstances, it was not possible to access the Save button when creating or editing a MongoDB source.
    DX-83897
  • Disable the functionality that metadata refresh jobs on Parquet tables gradually remove expired snapshots from the distributed store. This functionality could be enabled manually by enabling the support key.
    DX-84083
  • User will now see blank instead of error message for "Last Refresh from Table" in the raw profile UI when that information is missing from a profile.
    DX-84115
  • Fixed an issue where multiple Oracle scans were not being parallelized.
    DX-84246
  • Updated Dremio and Dremio's Hive 3 package to consume Avro 1.11.3 to address CVE-2023-39410.
    DX-84620
  • Added the Queue filter to jobs listing page.
    DX-84511
  • Updated snappy-java to 1.10.5.
    DX-84755
  • Fixes an issue with the Druid connector where a Preview query times out when querying tables with large amounts of data.
    DX-84983
  • Fixes an issue where an incorrect timeout value was being used in the MongoDB driver.
    DX-85189
  • Fixed in dremio-cloud-tools: Resolved incorrect calculations of the amount of memory on executor nodes.
    DX-60356

Known Issues​

  • If you have the Query on click preference disabled, the Go to Table () icon is missing from the Datasets page for tables and views. To query the dataset, click the ellipsis (...) and select Query, or go directly to the SQL Runner by clicking in the left navigation panel.

  • The following words were incorrectly made reserved keywords: ABSENT, CONDITIONAL, ENCODING, ERROR, FORMAT, PASSING, RETURNING, SCALAR, UNCONDITIONAL, UTF8, UTF16, UTF32.

  • Creating user-defined functions (UDFs) that reference UDFs outside of the root context fails with the error UnsupportedOperationException: Failed to match SQL Operators for: <UDF_NAME>.

24.2.11 (April 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • In the Dremio console, when you run a query in the SQL runner, the page no longer briefly displays the previous query's results.

    DX-83509

  • Promoted datasets with inconsistent partition depth no longer occasionally throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when filtering against deeper partitions.

    DX-88365

  • Users who do not belong to the ADMIN role cannot view the User filter or the list of users on the Jobs page.

    DX-87660

24.2.10 (January 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

24.2.8 (January 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Unneeded columns are now trimmed from JDBC pushdowns.

    DX-85187

  • Fixed an issue that caused queries to fail with the error IllegalArgumentException: No decimal present.

    DX-85876

24.2.7 (January 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Changing the size of an existing EC2 engine in Dremio's AWS Edition no longer resets the engine type.

    DX-54590
    DX-71086

  • Cancelled queries now immediately stop reading data from data sources.

    DX-69759

  • Fixed an issue with node endpoint checks that could cause coordinators to restart.

    DX-83120

  • Fixed an issue when selecting the appropriate correlated field for correlated sub-queries.

    DX-85193

  • Fixed an issue that caused subqueries with a SINGLE_VALUE aggregate to fail with AssertionError Cannot add expression of different type to set.

    DX-85208

  • IS_MEMBER queries no longer result in a null pointer exception when using Azure Active Directory (AAD).

    DX-85614

  • Queries no longer fail on MongoDB collections that contain a field with both double and decimal128 type values.

    DX-85679

  • Resolved a path travel security issue that bypassed folder-level role-based access control (RBAC).

    DX-84516

24.2.6 (November 2023) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Metadata refresh queries now succeed for Parquet tables that contain one or more columns whose names include a dot character, such as column.name.

    DX-66623

  • Resolved an issue that caused missing manifest files when using unlimited splits.

    DX-84083

  • Fixed a performance issue that affected queries that contain many GET calls for large arrays.

    DX-61308

  • When using the SQL editor, users can now leave the browser tab where the SQL editor is running, return after several minutes of inactivity, and continue using the SQL editor without refreshing the tab.

    DX-83340

  • Fixed an issue where queries containing JDBC scans were not properly parallelized.

    DX-84246

  • Updated Dremio and Dremio's Hive 3 package to consume Avro 1.11.3 to address a potential security issue [CVE-2023-39410].

    DX-84620

  • Updated snappy-java to 1.10.5 to address a potential security issue [CVE-2023-43642].

    DX-84755

24.2.5 (November 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • Improved the ability to delegate to sources the processing of predicates in queries on Iceberg tables when the predicates include date-time filters that use functions that reference a column.

    DX-65078

  • Added the option to force parallelism in write queries by using a round-robin exchange before the writer, even when input is only single-threaded. Enable this option by enabling the support key planner.writer.round_robin.

    DX-64388

Issues Fixed​

  • Upgrading from Dremio 19.0.0 to 24.2.0 could cause duplicate and triplicate results from MongoDB.

    DX-83100

  • Upgrading from early Dremio 24.x.x versions to Dremio AWSE 24.2.2 caused Glue source regions to change.

    DX-83895

  • C3 system stats for storage_plugins, mount_points, datasets, objects were missing due to an internal error. They have been enabled again.

    DX-83172

  • Fixed an issue where queries containing correlated subqueries in the join condition could return duplicate rows.

    DX-83748

  • Disabled the functionality that caused metadata refresh jobs on Parquet tables to gradually remove expired snapshots from the distributed store. This functionality can be enabled manually by enabling the support key Dremio.unlimited_splits.metadata.clean.enabled.

    DX-84083

  • Fixed a row count estimation issue that could result in a NullPointerException when an estimate cannot be provided.

    DX-69646

24.2.3 (October 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • In this release, reflection and query plan caches are cleared when they are disabled to ensure that queries do not use a deprecated reflection.
    DX-83117

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that was causing certain queries to fail when using hash joins, leading to an unexpected restart of an executor.

    DX-63029

  • Dremio was unable to read and query AWS Glue table partitions if partition column names or partition values contained spaces or other special characters.

    DX-83517

  • Metadata on AWS Glue sources was not being refreshed according to the schedule defined on the source. In some cases, new data was only seen after running ALTER TABLE <table> REFRESH METADATA.

    DX-82900

  • Fixed a number of issues that were affecting proper handling of inferred partition columns, specifically FOR PARTITIONS (...) was not working for inferred partition columns.

    DX-60565

  • When run by PUBLIC users, the data returned by the apiv2/user/<userid> internal API is limited to only information that is required to search users and assign privileges.

    DX-82605

  • Dremio queries in some Tableau executors would start failing after the access token had expired and been renewed.

    DX-68133

  • Fixed an issue with the default Jobs results cleanup path that was resulting in disk space issues and unexpected restarts on some cluster nodes.

    DX-41291

  • Updated the com.squareup.okio:okio package in Dremio's Hadoop 3.3.2 version to address CVE-2023-3635.

    DX-69726

24.2.1 (September 2023) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Following the upgrade to Dremio 24.2.0, an issue with external group membership evaluation when using Azure Active Directory was preventing users from accessing some datasets if more than 100 direct or indirect groups were in use.

    DX-79881

  • In some cases, if a deployment had a large number of sources, the SQL Runner was considerably unresponsive when loading the page or typing in the editor.

    DX-72618

  • When trying to run only a selected portion of a query in the SQL Runner, an error was generated because the full contents of the editor were executed instead of what was selected.

    DX-71689

  • At times, users were unable to scroll to the bottom of the Settings > Node Activity page.

    DX-69449

  • Fixed an issue that was causing an error and a blank profile to be returned after trying to download a profile that had been deleted.

    DX-68279

  • Dremio was allowing invalid Parquet files to be promoted, resulting in a DATA_READ ERROR: Failed to decode column error when running a SELECT against the file.

    DX-67631

  • Fixed an issue in C3 recovery logic that was causing C3 to be disabled at startup on some nodes.

    DX-67436

  • Changed from ping to netcat for the readiness check on coordinators and executors to avoid an issue with some nodes hanging during initialization.

    DX-67219

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the use of GRANT ALL on a project to fail with an "invalid project privilege" error.

    DX-65571

  • Fixed an issue that was causing increased startup time for the jobs service when the jobs history table was very large.

    DX-64792

  • Updated Helm charts to use a Temurin-based image for ZooKeeper to address some potential vulnerabilities.

    DX-61258

  • Updated Helm charts to enable autoscan by default for logback.

    DX-56702

24.2.2 (September 2023)​

What's New​

  • This release includes a number of changes to improve performance and row count estimates when working with Delta Lake tables.

    DX-65077

  • Plans for queries containing CONVERT_FROM(JSON) can now be cached.

    DX-82619

Issues Fixed​

  • When run by PUBLIC users, the data returned by the internal API apiv2/user/<userid> is limited to only information that is required to search users and assign privileges.

    DX-82783

  • Following the upgrade to 24.2.0, results from MongoDB sources were being returned in duplicate or triplicate.

    DX-82628

  • Following the upgrade to 24.1.3, if planner.enable_trim_join_branch was enabled, join trimmer failed to remove joins for queries that didn't read a column from either side of the join.

    DX-72602

  • In some cases, following the upgrade to previous 24.2.x Dremio versions, exception errors were getting logged during reflection materialization plan expansion.

    DX-71973

  • For some customers using reflections, coordinator startup times had increased after upgrading to a previous 24.2.x version.

    DX-71973

  • For some browsers, an interruption in connectivity can cause a failure in updating the status of long-running queries.

    DX-69909

  • To address a CONCURRENT_MODIFICATION error on concurrent metadata refresh queries on Parquet tables, if the query is submitted by scheduler, failures will be ignored. If the query is submitted by users, the failed query will be retried until it succeeds.

    DX-69749

  • In some cases, running ALTER TABLE <table_path> FORGET METADATA against a view could result in the view being deleted instead of the command failing with an error.

    DX-68202

  • Fixed an issue that was preventing users from creating aggregation reflections without dimensions via SQL, even though such reflections could be created in the Dremio console.

    DX-67967

24.2.1 (September 2023) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Following the upgrade to Dremio 24.2.0, an issue with external group membership evaluation when using Azure Active Directory was preventing users from accessing some datasets if more than 100 direct or indirect groups were in use.

    DX-79881

  • In some cases, if a deployment had a large number of sources, the SQL Runner was considerably unresponsive when loading the page or typing in the editor.

    DX-72618

  • When trying to run only a selected portion of a query in the SQL Runner, an error was generated because the full contents of the editor were executed instead of what was selected.

    DX-71689

  • At times, users were unable to scroll to the bottom of the Settings > Node Activity page.

    DX-69449

  • Fixed an issue that was causing an error and a blank profile to be returned after trying to download a profile that had been deleted.

    DX-68279

  • Dremio was allowing invalid Parquet files to be promoted, resulting in a DATA_READ ERROR: Failed to decode column error when running a SELECT against the file.

    DX-67631

  • Fixed an issue in C3 recovery logic that was causing C3 to be disabled at startup on some nodes.

    DX-67436

  • Changed from ping to netcat for the readiness check on coordinators and executors to avoid an issue with some nodes hanging during initialization.

    DX-67219

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the use of GRANT ALL on a project to fail with an "invalid project privilege" error.

    DX-65571

  • Fixed an issue that was causing increased startup time for the jobs service when the jobs history table was very large.

    DX-64792

  • Updated Helm charts to use a Temurin-based image for ZooKeeper to address some potential vulnerabilities.

    DX-61258

  • Updated Helm charts to enable autoscan by default for logback.

    DX-56702

24.2.0 (September 2023)​

What's New​

  • This release adds support for the following SQL functions:

  • Clicking on a linked job in the execution state opens the Job Overview page in a new tab.

    DX-65146

  • The lineage graph now includes the name and type for data sources.

    DX-65146

  • Dataset settings has been added to the edit dataset page. Clicking The Settings icon opens a dialog for editing the format, reflections, reflection refresh, and privileges of the dataset.

    DX-65146

  • This release provides performance improvements in the Jobs listing page, and any user with sufficient privileges can now view reflection jobs in the table.

    DX-64196

  • Autocomplete has been improved to provide better and faster context-aware suggestions for SQL keywords, catalog objects, and functions while you are constructing SQL statements.

    DX-53191

  • Reflection hints are now available to control which reflections are considered, excluded, and chosen for a query or session.

    DX-67225

  • You can use partition transforms in reflections to specify transformations to apply to partition columns to produce partition values. For example, if you choose to partition on a column of timestamps, you can set partition transforms that produce partition values that are the years, months, days, or hours in those timestamps.

    DX-64015

  • This release includes a new table function, SYS.RECOMMEND_REFLECTIONS, that recommends aggregation reflections to accelerate existing SQL queries. For more information, see Reflection Recommendations.

    DX-61857

  • Snapshot-based incremental refresh of reflections are now supported when the base table is Apache Iceberg and is updated by appends. Additionally, a new algorithm is supported for determining which method of refresh to use for such reflections. For more information, see Horizontally Partition Reflections that Have Many Rows.

    DX-61855

  • Partition-based incremental refresh of reflections are now supported when the base table is Apache Iceberg and is updated by DML operations. Additionally, a new algorithm is supported for determining which method of refresh to use for such reflections. For more information, see Horizontally Partition Reflections that Have Many Rows.

    DX-54576

  • You can now build reflections on versioned tables and views in a Nessie source. For more information, see Using Reflections in Nessie Source Branches.

    DX-55148

  • This release includes support for ARRAY literal syntax. For more information, see LIST.

    DX-62152

  • Added a new Credentials property list to all Hive sources, found under Advanced Options when configuring the source. The Credentials list mimics the behavior of the Connection Properties list, enabling users to insert masked name:value pairs for Hive sources.

    DX-65187

  • Additional events are now captured in audit logs, including engine configuration, workload management queues, and support key changes. For more information, see Events and Actions Tracked.

    DX-64423

  • Hive 2 dependent plugins have been upgraded to Hive 3 for communicating with Hive 2 sources to mitigate vulnerabilities in Hive 2. See 24.2.0 Upgrade Notes for more information.

    DX-65446

  • Row-level access, column masking, and cell-level security are now supported in AWS Lake Formation.

    DX-65106

  • This release includes updates that can reduce planning times for complex queries and reflections.

    DX-68463

  • Dremio automatically optimizes incremental reflection file size to improve reflection performance.

    DX-61779

  • The UNNEST operator is now supported, which takes an array and returns a table, with one row for each element in the array.

    DX-64370

  • In this release, the plan cache is user-specific for increased security, and it will be utilized when the same query is executed by the same user.

    DX-66499

  • Dremio now supports transparent secret rotation for Azure Key Vault Secrets for Azure Storage v2

    DX-65376

  • This release includes changes to reduce planning time for large and complex SQL queries.

    DX-61559

  • Metadata refresh jobs on Parquet tables will gradually remove expired snapshots from the distributed store.

    DX-65274

  • This release adds a cache for partition stats to improve logical planning times.

    DX-60812

  • Time travel is now supported on Delta Lake tables, including timestamp and snapshot based queries. Metadata history is supported via table_snapshot and table_history functions.

    DX-63136

  • This release mitigates a number of flagged vulnerabilities related to Hive 3 and dependent libraries.

    DX-65510

  • This release includes a number of changes to improve the performance of metadata refresh on Delta Lake tables.

    DX-65076

  • After DML operations against unpartitioned Iceberg tables, Dremio now compacts the data files written by the DML operation to improve future read performance.

    DX-58884

  • This release includes changes that reduce metadata retrieval times during certain table validation scenarios.

    DX-67536

  • The IDs of datasets used in a query are captured in queries.json if the number of datasets used is less than 50. If the number of datasets used is 50 or more, IDs are not captured to avoid performance issues.

    DX-64722

  • Created a new ProxyConfig class in the JDBC driver for Tableau Desktop to handle proxy configuration. You can now pass in socksProxyHost, socksProxyPort, socksProxyUsername, and socksProxyPassword as JDBC properties.

    DX-63234

  • A Copy button is now available when hovering over a job's SQL on the Jobs page.

    DX-54837

  • This release adds a new connector for querying data from Apache Druid. For more information, see Apache Druid.

    DX-46607

Issues Fixed​

  • In some cases, default raw reflection matching was not working as expected for users not assigned to the ADMIN role.

    DX-70893

  • At times, users were unable to scroll to the bottom of the Settings > Node Activity page.

    DX-69449

  • Deleted roles and users were being improperly cached during the same session for space and source privilege management, which could result in errors when trying to create new objects.

    DX-68405

  • In some cases, the Delete button was not available in the "Delete Token" confirmation dialog when trying to delete a personal access token.

    DX-68400

  • Trying to run SHOW FUNCTIONS was generating an exception error.

    DX-68041

  • Updated the Snowflake connector to fix an error caused by leaving the database field blank.

    DX-67959

  • At times, the DAY() function was returning either integer or timestamp, depending on how the query was written.

    DX-67793

  • Top-level CASE statements intended to return a boolean were not being rewritten correctly, resulting in an error for some SQL Server queries.

    DX-67527

  • AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions will now return an error if the key length is not 16, 24, or 32 characters.

    DX-67209

  • Fixed an issue that was causing slow execution, due to a single-threaded phase, by adding round robin exchanges to every child of a UnionAll.

    DX-67138

  • Plans for queries containing CONVERT_FROM could not be cached.

    DX-66675

  • Fixed an issue with the LEFT() SQL function on Oracle sources for queries with dates.

    DX-67036

  • If a query used in a reflection contained a user-defined function, reflection refreshes were failing with a plan serialization error.

    DX-66628

  • Fixed an issue that was causing errors in some queries containing WHERE x = ANY().

    DX-66321

  • If a dataset name or the name of a parent folder contained a space or ampersand (&) character, clicking on the dataset would populate the SQL Runner with a truncated SELECT statement.

    DX-66366

  • Fixed an issue that was causing an index out of bounds exception during planning (PLAN ERROR: 6) for certain queries.

    DX-65984

  • Some date subtraction queries were not getting pushed down for Oracle sources.

    DX-65396

  • The Dremio vectorized reader could not read invalid Parquet files where a dictionary page offset was used if no dictionary page was present.

    DX-64608

  • Fixed an issue with slow execution (caused by single threaded phase) by adding round robin exchanges to every children of a UnionAll.

    DX-64339

  • In planning, nested CASE statements are converted from relational node to SQL (for external sources) in a manner where each nested expression was increasing planning time. To address this issue, the nested CASE expressions will be flattened when possible.

    DX-64228

  • The Jobs page indicated that some metadata refresh jobs were still running after a long period of time, even though the coordinator had been restarted. Clicking for details on these jobs resulted in a "profile not found" error.

    DX-63723

  • Calling FLATTEN() on an empty list was causing an exception error.

    DX-63452

  • Some queries that contained large IN conditions were failing with a stack overflow error.

    DX-62755

  • For some queries that included the IS_MEMBER function and utilized Active Directory group lookups, planning time was excessively long or queries were timing out.

    DX-61801

  • Using AES_DECRYPT with an incorrect key was causing Dremio to restart unexpectedly instead of providing an error with a clear description of the issue.

    DX-61688

  • Some reflections on views based on MySQL sources were failing with timeout errors.

    DX-61201

  • In Dremio versions later than v20, casting +Infinity was returning an error.

    DX-61115

  • In some cases, Dremio nodes could reboot unexpectedly due to queries that contained deeply nested functions.

    DX-57773

  • In this release, the NOT IN clause is supported with correlated subqueries.

    DX-57298

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the CONCURRENT_MODIFICATION error during concurrent metadata refresh queries on Parquet tables. Errors from queries submitted by the scheduler will be ignored, and failed queries submitted by users will be retried until the query succeeds.

    DX-56431

  • Dremio was generating unnecessary exchanges with multiple unions, and changes have been made to set the proper parallelization width on JDBC operators and reduce the number of exchanges.

    DX-55300

  • Fixed an issue that caused degraded query performance for deployments configured with LDAP when a query was made on a view owned by a user who had been deleted from the LDAP server.

    DX-56397

  • When skipping the current record from any position, Dremio was not ignoring line delimiters inside quotes, resulting in unexpected query results.

    DX-53211

  • Updated io.netty:netty-handler to 4.1.96 to address a potential security issue [CVE-2023-34462].

    DX-67936

  • Updated org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common to address potential security issues [CVE-2022-25168].

    DX-60428

Known Issues​

  • Due to changes made in the Dremio query optimizer, you may observe an increased number of reflections being marked for refresh after upgrading to this release. You may wish to manually trigger some reflections to refresh in case their specified refresh period is large and a reflection has been marked as "cannot accelerate" (fixed in 24.2.2).
    DX-71973

24.1.4 (August 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • This release supports the relocation of distributed storage and metadata for Parquet tables (internal Iceberg tables). For more information, see Relocating Distributed Storage and Metadata.

    DX-64615

  • Added support for the following regions to the AWS Glue source:

    • ap-south-2: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
    • ap-southeast-3: Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
    • ap-southeast-4: Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
    • eu-south-2: EU (Spain)
    • eu-central-2: EU (Zurich)
    • me-central-1: Middle East (UAE)
      DX-69347

24.1.3 (July 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • The COL_LIKE SQL function has been updated to improve performance.

    DX-66586

  • Dremio will avoid a full data scan for simple aggregations on partition columns, reading the manifest metadata instead, which improves performance for queries on very large tables.

    DX-66029

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that was causing an occasional memory leak during planning for queries that used partition stats.

    DX-68518

  • The use of the WHERE clause in queries against Delta Lake tables in Hive sources is now supported.

    DX-67647

  • Fixed an issue that was causing invalid SQL comparison syntaxes in SQL Server queries if nested CASE statements were encountered.

    DX-67183

24.1.2 (July 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • This release includes some changes to improve logical planning performance and query planning times in certain scenarios.

    DX-66473

  • The /sql REST API endpoint now supports specifying version references on a per-source basis.

    DX-61908

Issues Fixed​

  • GRANT commands on catalog entities were failing with Role/User <ID> not found if existing user or role grantees were no longer present in the system.

    DX-65364

  • Fixed an issue that was causing an exception in the BRIDGE_FILE_READER_RECEIVER SQL operator for some queries.

    DX-64687

  • Some queries that included multiple levels of nested fields were failing.

    DX-64106

  • If a corrupted or malformed checkpoint file was encountered during metadata refresh, queries would fail with a Metadata read Failed error.

    DX-62568

  • Queries that utilized external reflections were not being logged in queries.json.

    DX-61654

  • Updated xalan:serializer to version 2.7.3 to address potential security issues [CVE-2022-34169].

    DX-60647

24.1.1 (June 2023) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • In Dremio 24.1.0, an issue with Tableau Desktop using OAuth and Power BI SSO was leading to authentication failures.

24.1.0 (June 2023)​

What's New​

  • Dremio now supports Nessie as a source to manage your Iceberg tables and views. Nessie also enables a Git-like experience for easier data collaboration, quality assurance, and multi-statement transactions on the data lake. For more information about using Nessie as a source, see Nessie.

    Limitations when using Nessie as a source in this initial release:

    DX-56331

    • Sonar audit logs are not available for tables and views that are created in a Nessie source. Some of this information is available directly in the Nessie commit history.

      DX-64988

    • You cannot use the Catalog API to retrieve or manage a Nessie source.

      DX-64994

  • In this release, Apache Iceberg table optimization supports partition column filters, compliance with Iceberg v2 tables containing positional deletes, and support for rewriting manifests. For more information, see Optimizing Tables.

  • Tag-based policies in Ranger-based authorization for Hive data sources are now supported. For more information, see Ranger-Based Authorization.

    DX-62889

  • This release includes the following new SQL functions:

    • ST_GEOHASH returns the corresponding geohash for given latitude and longitude coordinates (see ST_GEOHASH).

    • ST_FROMGEOHASH returns the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of a given geohash (see ST_FROMGEOHASH).

      DX-63077

    • REGEXP_COL_LIKE returns true when the specified regular expression matches values in a column. Otherwise, returns false. Use this function if your regular expression is a column (see REGEXP_COL_LIKE).

      DX-64209

    • CARDINALITY returns the number of elements in a map or list (see CARDINALITY).

      DX-63782

  • In this release, Dremio supports Zstandard (ZSTD) compression for reading and writing Parquet files. For more information, see Parquet File Compression.

    DX-61800

  • You can use the table_partitions() function to return partition-related statistics for Apache Iceberg tables. See Querying a Table’s Partition Metadata.

    DX-61957

  • You can remove snapshots and their associated files that you no longer need using the VACUUM command with EXPIRE SNAPSHOTS. For more information, see Expiring Snapshots of Apache Iceberg Tables.

    DX-58057

  • You can provide the URI for an Azure Key Vault secret to authenticate when configuring an Azure Storage source. Dremio connects to Azure Key Vault to fetch the secret and use it as the client secret. Dremio does not store the fetched secret. For more information, see Azure Storage.

    DX-53262

  • In this release, Dremio supports tabular user-defined functions. For more information, see User-Defined Functions.

    DX-56570

  • The Settings page now includes an option to manage preferences for the Dremio console. SQL Autocomplete settings are now available on this page, as well as Copy or download results and Query dataset on click. For more information, see Dremio Preferences.

    • Copy or download results lets you enable or disable the options to download or copy query results from the SQL Runner.

      DX-56766

    • Query dataset on click lets you configure the default behavior in the Dremio console when clicking on a dataset to either open the SQL Runner with a default SELECT statement on the dataset or open the Datasets page.

      DX-63898

  • The metadata card for datasets includes a number of additions, including a link to the lineage graph and links to launch a BI tool. For more information about the metadata card, see Viewing the Metadata of a Dataset.

  • Improved permission validation around view-based query execution.

    DX-64688

  • Added more security around DML permission checks to ensure that users can access data only according to their privileges.

    DX-64746

  • In this release, the plan cache is user-specific for increased security, and it will be utilized when the same query is executed by the same user.

    DX-63531

  • Improved handling of multiple COUNT(DISTINCT) functions with grouping set.

    DX-39786

  • Views represented in the lineage graph now contain a direct link to edit the dataset. Additionally, if you have edit permissions on a view, the dataset metadata card will display the edit icon instead of the Go to Dataset icon.

    DX-59776

  • Incrementally refreshed raw reflections containing filters or aggregates can now be used as default raw reflections.

    DX-61854

  • In this release, Delta Lake is a supported table format in AWS Glue sources.

    DX-59481

  • Upgraded the MongoDB driver to support MongoDB 5.

    DX-59363

  • Namespace entities fetched from the KV store are now cached in memory during query planning to improve planning performance.

    DX-60814

  • Added support for full outer joins that resolve to a true join condition.

    DX-59222

  • When a column type cannot be coerced during Parquet file scanning, the name of the file containing the issue is now included in the error message to assist users in resolving the problem.

    DX-57987

  • You can now save scripts that contain up to 250,000 characters.

    DX-59839

  • When parsing CSV, Dremio now allows multi-character strings to be used as field delimiter, quote, quote escape, and comment. Previously, only single characters were supported for these.

    DX-60794

Issues Fixed​

  • Made an update to ensure that custom (whitelabel) logos will be left-aligned on the Dremio login page.

    DX-65948

  • Fixed an issue where Helm charts could terminate the coordinator before start up completed due to large KV stores. To help address this issue and enable more flexible tuning, readinessProbe and startupProbe variables are now configurable in values.yaml.

    DX-65864

  • In some cases, invalid partition stats were causing the row count estimate for a table to come back as 1.

    DX-64986

  • Adding a CAST to an Oracle index column was leading to a missed partition key and resulting in an expensive and slow query.

    DX-64979

  • Resolved an internal hash collision in the columnar cloud cache (C3) eviction path that disabled C3, which could cause performance degradation. This internal range has been expanded to avoid the issue and the C3 service will remain operational even if the issue were to occur.

    DX-64898

  • If a Hive source connection was slow, Dremio would repeatedly ping the source to get databases.

    DX-64495

  • Fixed an issue that avoids single stream processing and improves execution times when using UNION ALL with planner.unionall_distribute_all_children set to "true".

    DX-64339

  • In planning, nested CASE statements are converted from relational node to SQL (for external sources) in a manner where each nested expression was increasing planning time. To address this issue, the nested CASE expressions will be flattened when possible.

    DX-64228

  • For some queries on Oracle sources, an interval of time was being processed incorrectly, resulting in the following error: (full) year must be between -4713 and +9999

    DX-63742

  • Dremio did not support Delta Lake tables with multi-part checkpoints, causing inaccurate row estimates and highly inconsistent query performance when running the same query.

    DX-63599

  • Fixed an issue in planner optimization that was causing errors in certain queries with count aggregates.

    DX-62998

  • In some cases, allocator information was not being included in the profile for queries that failed due to out of memory errors.

    DX-62731

  • At times, using the CONCAT function with non-string operands would yield results that were truncated incorrectly.

    DX-61914

  • In some cases, XML responses from AWS Glue were not being handled properly and causing queries to fail.

    DX-60928

  • Users who have not been assigned to the ADMIN role can no longer get details for another user via the REST API unless they are granted specific privileges.

    DX-60480

  • Fixed query concurrency issues that could lead to "Selected table has no columns" errors.

    DX-59967

  • Following the upgrade to Dremio v20.3, the Admin CLI remove-duplicate-roles command was failing, and output was empty for dry runs.

    DX-59799

  • If a view used in a raw reflection contained the CONVERT_FROM() function, trying to access the view would result in a planning error.

    DX-59542

  • In some cases, removing and adding privileges for a user on a space was failing with a "Failed to create SPACE with: Role not found" error.

    DX-59527

  • In some cases, Dremio nodes could reboot unexpectedly due to queries that contained deeply nested functions.

    DX-57773

  • Fixed an error that occurred when validating very wide text fields in a CSV file, which resulted in Dremio reporting more than 65536 columns found.

    DX-56768

  • A Zookeeper class was missing from the JDBC jar in some earlier releases, resulting in a ClassNotFound exception.

    DX-56584

  • For some queries on views using OR or IN, unnecessary subquery scans were not removed, causing inconsistent results.

    DX-56085

  • Default raw reflections can now be used in REFRESH REFLECTION jobs.

    DX-55898

  • Dremio was not auditing SSO logins using OpenID identity providers.

    DX-53874

  • The Dremio Helm chart admin pod will now use the coordinator service account by default, if configured, to run backup, restore, and other admin tasks that require access.

    DX-51964

  • Dremio was not generating correct partition statistic information for column names that contained spaces.

    DX-49736

  • When using the GROUP BY expression with an aliased column of the same name as the original column, a validation error was indicating that the column was not being grouped.

    DX-48015

  • Dremio was not able to read Delta Lake datasets that used a plus sign '+' in their path or in partition columns.

    DX-46732

  • In some cases, datetime functions that used a filter condition with a string datetime literal added to the query were producing incorrect results.

    DX-25085

  • Reflections having zero rows were not available for substitution.

    DX-20318

  • Dremio now supports ASCII 128-256 and multiple character delimiters in CSV files.

    DX-16749

  • Added argument validation for DATE_TRUNC and made improvements to some error messages.

    DX-9637

  • The EXTRACT function now correctly extracts HOUR, MINUTE, or SECOND from a DATE query that does does not contain a time parameter.

    DX-60188

  • Deleting a space or folder that contained a user-defined function was resulting in an error.

    DX-59151

  • Updated the following libraries to address potential security issues:

    • com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core to version 1.12.400 [CVE-2022-31159].

      DX-58428, DX-62448

    • commons-net:commons-net to version 3.9 [CVE-2021-37533].

      DX-63800

    • com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core to 5.4.0 [CVE-2022-40151].

      DX-60426

    • com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to 2.14.2 [CVE-2022-42003].

      DX-60494

    • protobuf-java core to version 3.21.9 [CVE-2022-3171].

      DX-60170

Known Issues​

  • In Dremio 24.1.0, there is an issue with Tableau Desktop using OAuth and Power BI SSO, which is leading to authentication failures (fixed in Dremio 24.1.1).

24.0.3 (June 2024) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the reflection summary page in the Dremio console to load incorrectly.
    DX-62949

24.0.2 (May 2023) Enterprise​

Issues Fixed​

  • In Dremio 24.0.0 AWS Edition, if core-site.xml was used to specify distributed storage, restoring a backup was resulting in an exception.
    DX-63776

24.0.1 (March 2023) Enterprise​

What's New​

  • This release includes a new SQL function, COL_LIKE, which tests whether an expression column matches a pattern column. For more information, see COL_LIKE.

    DX-60811

  • This release adds support for reading TIME and TIMESTAMP microseconds in Parquet files. Microseconds are truncated and the value is stored as milliseconds.

    DX-34989

  • Added support of complex types (MAP, LIST, STRUCT) for the following Hive input formats: RCFile, Text, SequenceFile

    DX-61981

Issues Fixed​

  • Pushdowns were not working for UUID data types on a PostgresSQL source. This change maps PostgresSQL's UUID type to Dremio's VARCHAR. Comparison operators (=, >, <, <=, >=, !=) between a UUID and a UUID and between a UUID and a VARCHAR will now be pushed down.

    DX-62978

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the planner to attempt to add implicit casting for identical data types, causing an error.

    DX-62799

  • In some cases, allocator information was not being included in the profile for queries that failed due to out of memory errors.

    DX-62731

  • Ordering was not working as expected when comparing COUNT and COUNT DISTINCT in a GROUP BY clause.

    DX-61655

  • Expression operator names were being used as intermediate field names. In some queries, the multiplication operator (*) was later treated as SELECT *, which was causing physical planning to fail to find the field.

    DX-61572

  • When trying to share a SQL script with another user in Dremio's AWS Edition, sharing failed with a generic "Something went wrong" error.

    DX-61254

  • When querying INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables as a non-admin user from JDBC/ODBC applications, the query was taking much longer than when performed by an admin user.

    DX-61168

  • In some cases, XML responses from AWS Glue were not being handled properly and causing queries to fail.

    DX-60928

  • Queries were failing against views and time series collections on MongoDB sharded collections.

    DX-60691

  • Fixed an issue that was causing queries to fail if certain expression splits contained CAST AS UNION.

    DX-60607

  • In some cases, removing and adding privileges for a user on a space was failing with a "Failed to create SPACE with: Role not found" error.

    DX-59527

  • Fixed some issues that were causing poor performance with the REGEXP_LIKE SQL function.

    DX-59182

  • Some queries were performing poorly if the query contained an ORDER BY clause.

    DX-58777

  • If a subquery expression was used after an aggregate and the same expression was duplicated in a WHERE clause, a validation exception was being encountered.

    DX-56541

  • For some queries on views using OR or IN, unnecessary subquery scans were not removed, causing inconsistent results.

    DX-56085

  • Fixed an issue with the Jobs page that could lead to high heap memory usage when the content of the SQL query was unusually large.

    DX-54831

  • The Dremio Helm chart admin pod will now use the coordinator service account by default, if configured, to run backup, restore, and other admin tasks that require access.

    DX-51964

  • Upgraded com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java to version 3.21.9 to mitigate CVE-2022-3171.

    DX-60439

24.0.0 (February 2023)​

What's New​

  • This release adds support for Sign-On (SSO) with Microsoft Power BI. For more information, see Enabling Single Sign-On.

  • You can optimize Iceberg tables to maximize the speed and efficiency of data retrieval. Rewrite data files using a compaction process to combine small files into larger files or split large files to reduce metadata overhead and runtime file open costs. For more information, see Optimizing Tables.

    DX-55479

  • You can roll back to a previous state of an Iceberg table using either a snapshot ID or a timestamp reference. For more information, see Rolling Back Tables.

    DX-54159

  • Dremio’s new COPY INTO SQL command makes it even easier and faster to load data into Apache Iceberg tables, which are a foundational component data lakehouses. With one command, you can now copy data from CSV and JSON stored in Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), HDFS, and other supported data sources into Apache Iceberg tables using the columnar Parquet file format for performance. Dremio efficiently distributes the copy operation across the entire engine to load data more quickly. For more information, see Copying Data Into Apache Iceberg Tables.

    DX-46107

  • In the SQL editor, you can now format your SQL using the Format SQL shortcut (Cmd + Shift + f or Ctrl + Shift + f). As long as the current syntax is valid, the SQL formatter applies a conventional style to your query by aligning commands for readability. For more information, see SQL Editor.

    DX-40727

  • This release supports the use of BROADCAST hints in queries to distribute data across all executor nodes. For more information, see Distributing Data Evenly Across Executor Nodes During Joins.

    DX-56572

  • The LIKE SQL function now supports the ANY, SOME, and ALL keywords. For more information, see LIKE.

    DX-56364

  • If you specify an alias for a column or expression in the SELECT clause, you can now refer to that alias elsewhere in a query. For more information, see Table SQL Statements.

    DX-56363

  • This release implements a new operator for vectorized hash-join that supports spilling to disk if a query runs out of memory. Spill support for hash-join queries can be turned on by enabling the exec.op.join.spill Support Key.

    DX-37267

  • Dremio now includes a new connector for adding IBM Db2 databases as sources. For more information, see IBM DB2.

    DX-45152

  • The MongoDB source configuration contains a new setting under Advanced Options to treat field names as case insensitive. When enabled, Dremio will record all known variations of a field name when learning the schema and use all known variations when pushing an operation down to Mongo.

    DX-34571

  • The Reflections page under Settings > Reflections now provides real-time observability for reflections, including status, refresh, and usage information. You can use this page to monitor reflections in real time and take advantage of usage metrics to identify and trim reflections that are not accelerating queries.

    DX-56576

  • In this release, Delta Lake is a supported table format in Hive sources. Dremio identifies Delta Lake tables if they are created with STORED BY 'io.delta.hive.DeltaStorageHandler'.

    DX-54325

  • Dremio now supports parentheses around JOIN subclauses to handle queries from some 3rd party tools.

    DX-58414

  • This version of Dremio supports sub-queries in user defined functions (UDFs).

    DX-51656

  • Added support for timestamp to bigint coercion in Hive-Parquet tables.

    DX-60456

  • Password/Secrets encryption in Dremio software config files DX-47701

Issues Fixed​

  • In some cases, the JVM's direct memory allocator was triggering garbage collection when there was sustained and high usage of direct memory, which was causing performance issues.

    DX50135

  • Following the upgrade to Dremio 22.1.7, Power BI Desktop and Gateway may not have been able to connect to Dremio via Azure Active Directory.

    DX-60942

  • In some cases, a MERGE query with an INSERT clause was inserting columns in the wrong order.

    DX-60560

  • Fixed an issue with runtime filter evaluation in cases where columns having a physical data type of timestamp were represented as bigint at the table level.

    DX-60740

  • In some cases, with the Arrow Flight SQL ODBC driver, users were getting an error when testing the connection to Microsoft Excel in the ODBC Administrator on Windows.

    DX-60176

  • Fixed an issue with Decimal functions that was leading to bad results when exec.preferred.codegenerator was set to java.

    DX-60099

  • In some cases, incorrect values were being returned for boolean columns during filtering at Parquet scan.

    DX-60059

  • Some queries were failing for MongoDB v4.9+ sharded collections because MongoDB would use UUID instead of namespace.

    DX-59457

  • Fixed some issues that were causing poor performance when using the REGEXP_LIKE SQL function.

    DX-59182

  • Some queries were performing poorly if they contained an ORDER BY clause.

    DX-58777

  • After offloading a column with type DOUBLE and offloading again to change the type to VARCHAR, the column type was still DOUBLE and read operations on the table failed with an exception.

    DX-58410

  • Dremio was generating unnecessary exchanges with multiple unions, and changes have been made to set the proper parallelization width and reduce the number of exchanges.

    DX-58348

  • The ALTER TABLE command, when used with a column-masking or row-filtering policy, returned an error when the table contained field names that would require quoting, such as those containing spaces or corresponding to reserved keywords.

    DX-58186

  • LIKE was returning null results when using ESCAPE if the escaped character was one of the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) special characters.

    DX-57934

  • Fixed an issue that was affecting fragment scheduling efficiency under heavy workloads, resulting in high sleep times for some queries.

    DX-57579

  • In some cases, a MERGE query with an INSERT clause was inserting columns in the wrong order.

    DX-57546

  • Heap usage on some coordinator nodes was growing over time, requiring a periodic restart to avoid out of memory errors.

    DX-57398

  • Moved from strict matching of types to coercion to compatible types such as INT and BIGINT -> BIGINT, to address an issue with forgotten Elasticsearch mappings during refresh

    DX-57304

  • Updated the apiVersion for PodDisruptionBudget to policy/v1 in Helm charts v2 due to the decommissioning of Kubernetes version 1.20.

    DX-57143

  • Fixed an issue that was causing a DATA_READ ERROR: Failed to initialize Hive record reader error when trying to read ORC tables.

    DX-56952

  • If a query contained CONVERT_FROM() on a large json literal string, the query was failing with an OutOfMemoryException error.

    DX-56538

  • Fixed an issue that was resulting in repeated role lookups during privilege checks and causing performance issues.

    DX-56347

  • The manifest list table function was causing performance issues for some queries.

    DX-52997

  • The Dremio Helm chart admin pod will now use the coordinator service account by default, if configured, to run backup, restore, and other admin tasks that require access.

    DX-51964

  • Dremio no longer includes server name and version in the response header.

    DX-50225

  • Updated the following libraries to address potential security issues:

    • protobuf-java core to version 3.21.9 [CVE-2022-3171].

      DX-60170

    • com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core version to 1.12.261 [CVE-2022-31159].

      DX-58432

    • org.yaml:snakeyaml to version 1.30 [CVE-2022-25857].

      DX-56239

    • org.apache.calcite.avatica:avatica-core to version 1.22.0 [CVE-2022-36364].

      DX-55302

    • com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 2.13.0 [CVE-2020-36518].

      DX-54034

    • org.curioswitch.curiostack:protobuf-jackson to version 1.1.8 [CVE-2020-7768].

      DX-49001

Breaking Changes​

Mixing Implicit and Explicit Joins​

If you mix implicit and explicit joins, only the last of the implicitly joined tables can be in the ON clause. Otherwise you will receive a "Table not found" error. For example, the following query results in the error Table 'c' not found.

select *
from
        NAS2."customer.parquet" c,
        NAS2."nation.parquet" n
        left join
        NAS2."orders.parquet" as o
 on c.c_custkey = o.o_custkey

The solution is to replace the comma with an explicit cross join like this:

select *
from
        NAS2."customer.parquet" c
        cross join
        NAS2."nation.parquet" n
        left join
        NAS2."orders.parquet" as o
 on c.c_custkey = o.o_custkey

This is functionally equivalent since implicit joins implement a cross product of the two tables.

Broadcast Table Hints​

Dremio v24 supports BROADCAST hints in queries. Hints must be entered as /*+ <hint> */, which is standard across data warehouses. In previous versions of Dremio, text enclosed in /* */ was treated as a comment. Dremio will continue to treat text enclosed in /* */ as a comment unless the first character is +. The use of unrecognized hints will result in an error. For more information, see Distributing Data Evenly Across Executor Nodes During Joins.

Known Issues​

  • This version of Dremio does not support Iceberg tables written with equality deletes.

    DX-52677

  • DML operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE) are not supported on tables with MAP columns. CTAS is supported on tables with MAP columns.

    DX-57005

  • Currently, Dremio cannot read timestamp microseconds from Parquet files which have been written with dictionary encoding. Queries involving a microsecond column will not return any data (fixed in Dremio 24.0.1).

    DX-19162