v42.6

Features

• DH-22441: allow Dictionary encoding for Barrage and Arrow clients (#8658) - (82ae84e) - Larry Booker
• DH-23394: Add with_keys and with_unique_keys to the Python Tabl… (#8537) - (35f267a) - Jianfeng Mao

Bug Fixes

• (cpp-client,barrage) DH-23401: Server+client support for ticking barrage run-end+dict encoding (#8720) - (891eda1) - Larry Booker
• DH-22797: bump confluent to pick up security fix to wire (#8784) - (abc9a3f) - Devin Smith
• Update web version 1.30.0 (#8651) (#8786) - (9dc2120) - Mike Bender
• no-ticket: Annotate _wrap_with_subclass for mypy 2.4.0 (#8745) (#8747) - (44f6d10) - Jianfeng Mao
• DH-23609: Correct pre-Epoch sub-second conversions (#8685) - (2d1a550) - robbcamera
• DH-23750: Disable wrong-answer pushdown paths in 42.x (#8657) - (ff0d0ee) - Larry Booker
• DH-23389: Null-check the trailers Metadata (#8505) (#8686) - (a5abf7d) - Charles P. Wright
• DH-23735: Close the interrupt race in the TestConstructSnapshot column snapshot tests (#8664) (#8672) - (c33a92d) - Charles P. Wright
• DH-23735: Release the in-flight chunk when a column snapshot fill fails, and name the failing column (#8602) (#8656) - (1f798ba) - Charles P. Wright
• DH-23437: Create the C++ client console lazily (#8398) (#8624) - (5988698) - Jianfeng Mao
• DH-23675: Start tracking SourcePartitionedTable previous values after the initial population (#8554) (#8563) - (935094d) - Charles P. Wright
• DH-23647: Pull the minio image from quay.io instead of Docker Hub (#8540) - (8ea4b22) - Charles P. Wright

Performance Improvements

• DH-23640: Decode PLAIN BINARY strings from page buffer (#8699) - (dd2c11a) - robbcamera

Miscellaneous Chores

• (github-actions) Gate engine/ and coverage/ PRs on the out-of-band suites (#8589) - (b24747a) - Charles P. Wright
• (gradle) DH-23862: Align the shaded method-list Jackson with the Jackson BOM (#8733) (#8738) - (bfe129a) - Charles P. Wright
• (gradle) bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.22.2 to 2.22.3 (#8647) (#8737) - (587baa1) - Charles P. Wright
• (gradle) bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.22.1 to 2.22.2 (#8412) (#8694) - (d1a69ae) - Charles P. Wright
• (gradle) bump org.openrewrite:rewrite-java from 8.85.4 to 8.90.4 (#8437) (#8608) - (16df428) - Charles P. Wright
• (gradle) bump at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 (#8234) (#8609) - (4ba0732) - Charles P. Wright
• DH-23736: bump org.apache.parquet:parquet-hadoop (#8628) - (b17b156) - Devin Smith
• DH-23464: Bump httpclient5 from 5.6.3 to 5.6.4 (#8440) (#8547) - (4b3f27c) - Charles P. Wright
• Bump to 42.6 (#8504) - (b19c553) - Stan Brubaker

Tests

• Disable the MinIO container in the S3, Iceberg, and Parquet tests (#8637) (#8662) - (d04da04) - Charles P. Wright