Release proposal: Nightly v0.8

[BohuTANG]

Summary

Release name: v0.8-nightly, get in the train now ✋

Milestone: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/milestone/1

Checklist

Stable checklist

• Query(Copy): make copy into can parallel load directory multi file #4584
• Query(Copy): Feature: Support JSON file format for the COPY command #4527
• Query(Copy): Unloading data into stage #4498
• Query(Copy): Improve the COPY from external location performance  #4308
• Query(Insert): Feature: Async Insert #4577
• Query(View): Feature: Support View Create/Select/Alter #4610
• Query(Insert): Feature: Improve insert into performance #4413
• Query(SQL):Update sqlparser-rs to latest to support Unsigned* #4877
• Query (TimeZone): Feature: Adapt to different countries support user change timezone #4651
• Query(DataType): Support Semi-structured Data Types (like json format) #3916
• Query(information_schema): Support for information_schema database  #4659
• Query(DataType): Datetime type attempt to multiply with overflow from chrono #4874
• Query(ALTER): Support: ALTER DATABASE [ IF EXISTS ] <name> RENAME TO <new_db_name> #4839
• Query(DML): support query: show table status #4757
• Query(DML) ISSUE-4459: Add support for alter table rename statement #4532
• Query(DataType): Support Array<T> Data Type
• Query(Function): feat: Add scalar function humanize #5073
• Query(Function): feat(functions): support aggregate function retention #4970
• Query(Function): feature: support REGEXP_REPLACE function #4944
• Query(Function): feature: support REGEXP_SUBSTR function  #4771
• Query(Function): feat(function): Support Semi-structured function GET/GET_IGNORE_CASE/GET_PATH #4684
• Query(Function) : support PARSE_JSON / TRY_PARSE_JSON function #4534
• Query(Source): feat(source): add ndjson source for streaming load #4561
• Query(Settings): feat(setting): support global setting #6579
• Query(Handler): feat(query): deprecate clickhouse's tcp protocol support #7012
• Query(Planner): Support CTE(Common Table Expression) #6246
• Storage(Delete): Feat: statement delete from...  #5691
• Storage(Azblob): feat: Implement azblob support  #5025
• Storage(TimeTravel): Feat : undrop table & show history #5562
• Storage(clustering_information): feat(fuse): add system$clustering_information function #5426
• Storage(Index): feat: enable bloom filter index #6639
• Cloud(User): Fine-grained user privilege on database & table #2894
• Executor(Processor): Feature: support abort for insert query #4646
• API(REST): Feature: Add ClickHouse REST handler #4568
• API(JDBC): Proposed: support DBeaver connect Databend #4581
• Query(Optimizer): Optimizer rule_push_down_filter_scan is not enabled #7069
• Storage(predict): refactor(query): predicate push down support multi expressions #7078
• Query(SQL): [SQL] Support Common Table Expressions #514

Experimental checklist

• Planner: Migrate to new planner framework #3747
• Query(UDF): SQL UDFs #3994
• Query(GroupBy): two-level hashmap optimization #4602
• Storage(ClusterKey): Feature: Table Cluster Key #4268
• Storage(COPY): Support read compressed files in COPY statemente #5380
• Storage(External): Hive as an External Data Source #4826
• Meta: Feature: [metasrv]: add API watch #4393
• Meta: Add API to remove a node from metasrv cluster #4312
• OpenDAL: Native compress support apache/opendal#70

Testing checklist

• Continuous Benchmarking #3084

Move to the next release(v0.9)

• Query(Cache): Cache: Query result cache #4521
• Executor(Processor): Add processor level profiling #4238
• Storage(Table): Add alter table  #3461
• Query(AZBLOB): Add azblob intergration test using azurite #5314

Archive releases

• Release proposal: Nightly v0.7 #3428
• Release proposal: Nightly v0.6 #2525
• Release proposal: Nightly v0.5 #2257

Reference

What are Databend release channels?
Nightly v0.8 is part of our Roadmap 2022
Community website: https://databend.rs

[BohuTANG]

Add:
Query(information_schema) @issue-4659

[Xuanwo]

Released at: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/releases/tag/v0.8.0-nightly

Thanks for everyone!