Drill 1.7.0 Release Notes (Developer Preview)
The following release notes are for the 1.7.0 developer preview of the MapR distribution of Apache Drill. Release notes for prior releases are posted on the Apache Drill web site.
Version | 1.7.0 (developer preview) |
Release Date | July 5, 2016 |
MapR Version Interoperability | See Interoperability Matrices and Drill Support Matrix. |
Noteworthy New Features
This release introduces the following enhancements:
- Improvements to MaxDir/MinDir functions. See Query Directory Functions.
- Access to Drill logs in the Web UI. See Log and Debug Introduction.
- Addition of JDBC/ODBC client IP in Drill audit logs. See Query Audit Logging.
- Monitoring via JMX. See Monitoring Metrics.
- Hive CHAR data type support. See Hive-to-Drill Data Type Mapping.
- Partition pruning enhancements.
- Improved metadata query performance on Hive tables.
- Ability to return file names as part of queries.
See Apache Drill 1.7.0 Release Notes for a complete list of JIRAs resolved in the 1.7.0 release.