Releases¶

See Nessie Server upgrade notes for supported upgrade paths.

0.44.0 Release (October 18, 2022)¶

See Release information on GitHub.

• Ninja: fix create-release WF
• Ninja: fix GH env reference
• Update README mentioning Iceberg 1.0 (#5384)
• Add Dan + Vladimir to devs list (#5381)
• GH release WF: default to “minor” version bump (#5380)
• GH release WF: Fix wrong task name (#5379)
• Automatically update release text files (#5377)
• GH release WF - fix log exclusion + log filter for rel-notes (#5378)
• Nessie GC: Docs (#5209)
• Nessie GC: Command line tool (#5227)
• Nessie GC: Iceberg functionality (#5207)
• Avoid direct dependency on iceberg-bundled-guava (#5366)
• quarkus-server tests use dynamic port from env (#5352)
• Fix missing placeholder for Preconditons.checkState (#5360)
• fix GH workflows still mentioning maven (#5353)
• Remove httpClient param from AbstractRest.init (#5354)
• Update pretty-ms to 8.x (#5341)
• DynamoDB related test changes (#5338)
• Split unsquashed merge tests into dedicated test methods (#5328)
• Update testing-library-react to 13.x (#5334)
• Bump actions/checkout from v3 to v3.1.0 (#5335)
• Update material-ui to mui 5.x.x (#5326)
• nessie-client/test: compress responses for all relevant HTTP methods (#5323)
• Fix micrometer path replacement patterns (#5321)
• Renovate: labels for java/javascript/python (#5318)
• Revert protobuf to 3.21.6 (#5317)
• Renovate: limit to 2 PRs per hour (#5319)
• Isolate http-level test from java client-level tests (#5314)
• Skip newer-java workflow on forks (#5294)
• Nessie client tests: Replace JDK’s HTTP server w/ Jetty (#5285)
• Move internal classes of the Nessie HTTP client (#5286)
• GH/WF: Use temurin instead of ‘zulu` (#5289)
• Nessie-client tests: do not compile w/ older Jackson versions (#5287)
• Test Nessie client with Java 8 (#5284)
• Integrate Jackson-version tests into Gradle build (#5279)
• Migrate to Gradle version catalogs (#5167)
• Unify Postgres container version declaration for tests
• Migrate from dependabot to renovate (#5166)
• Testing pre-requisites for Nessie GC: Two S3 testing projects (#5142)
• Fix iceberg verison on web site (#5222)
• Java 19 testing (#5221)
• Automatic patch releases (#5214)
• Unsupport 0.30.x versions (#5212)
• WF: Remove Maven part (#5213)
• Nessie GC: JDBC Live-Set-Repository (#5208)
• Allow Hadoop Spark config in tests (#5206)
• Nessie GC: mark & sweep (gc-base module only) (#5144)
• Slight build scripts change for Java11+ target compat (#5203)
• Fix test failure caused by #5147 (#5204)
• No longer write ref-log entries for commit/merge/transplant (#5147)
• Schedule dependabot for npm + pip less frequently (#5201)

0.43.0 Release (September 15, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Prepare for Nessie GC
• Nessie export/import functionality
• Use Graal 22.2-java17 for native images
• Several test and build improvements

0.42.0 Release (August 26, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Key list creation fixes
• Pluggable content types

0.41.0 Release (August 5, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Do not persist and expose attached content metadata
• Fix issue when looking up key in an open-addressing-key-list

0.40.3 Release (August 1, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Remove Quarkus-BOM dependency from non-Quarkus projects

0.40.2 Release (August 1, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Dependency issues fixed

0.40.1 Release (July 25, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from versions before 0.40.0 are not supported!

• Fix key-lists issue resulting in server-errors (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException)

0.40.0 Release (July 22, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from earlier versions are not supported!

• Support Spark 3.1 (Scala 2.12), Spark 3.2 (Scala 2.12 + 2.13), Spark 3.3 (Scala 2.12 + 2.13)
• Support Iceberg 0.14.0
• Nessie Spark SQL extensions: handle timestamps w/ time-zones
• Nessie Spark SQL extensions: fix handling of USEd references for CREATE/ASSIGN BRANCH/TAG
• Detailed merge/transplant result to allow inspection of conflicts
• Merge/transplant optionally allow “force-keep” & “force-merge” of conflicting content-keys
• Iceberg table metadata stored in Nessie
• Improvements to REST error handling
• Performance improvements when there are many content-keys
• Hard limit on content-key length (max 20 elements, total 500 characters)
• Prevent (accidental) deletion of default branch
• Improved usage of automatic paging via NessieApi
• Improvements to Nessie server health checks
• Add rolling-upgrade test suite in regular CI
• Daily testing against Java 17 + newer
• Switched to Java 17 in native images
• Build switched from Maven to Gradle

0.30.0 Release (May 13, 2022)¶

• Add commit-ID to KeyListEntry when writing new key-lists
• Do not process old key-lists when retrieving values
• Helm: Fix k8s version detection in ingress template
• Database-adapter: commit optimizations
• Remove the configurable default for the configurable values for getDefaultMaxKeyListSize
• Dynamo/Mongo/TX: use bulk/batch requests where possible

0.29.0 Release (May 5, 2022)¶

• Spark SQL: Configure ref.hash for NessieCatalog only when explicitly requested
• Escape all column names in SQL DML+DDL statements
• Use hashOnRef when fetching Namespaces
• Helm: Add ingress support for Kubernetes >=1.22
• Fix CockroachDB transaction-retry behavior

0.28.0 Release (April 26, 2022)¶

• Generate unique content IDs for explicitly created namespaces
• Fix patterns for metrics
• Various test improvements (CI + build)
• Various minor code fixes (fixes for errorprone warnings)

0.27.0 Release (April 14, 2022)¶

• Support for Namespace properties
• Make NessieContentGenerator extensible

0.26.0 Release (April 12, 2022)¶

Rolling upgrades from an older Nessie release to 0.26.0 or newer are not supported.

• Remove global state for Iceberg tables + views
• Internal optimizations in database adapters, version store and API endpoints
• Change ‘marker’ character to indicate . in namespace/table identifiers from ASCII 0 to \u001D
• Opt-in to force-merge or not merge specific content keys (also for transplant)
• Squash merged and transplanted commits by default (with opt-out)

0.25.0 Release (April 6, 2022)¶

• Nessie Quarkus Server can use Postgres as its backend database
• Explicitly define behavior of multiple commit-operations in a commit
• Load correct view metadata for a given ref

0.24.0 Release (March 31, 2022)¶

• Prevent explicit creation of empty namespaces
• Add content-id to BatchAccessChecker.canReadContentKey()

0.23.1 Release (March 23, 2022)¶

• Support Namespaces
• CI “perf tests” improvements
• SQL Extension: Fix Create reference from a hash on non-default reference
• Enhance authorization checks
• Support custom annotations on Nessie Helm service

0.23.0 Release (March 23, 2022)¶

(not properly released)

0.22.0 Release (March 11, 2022)¶

• Improve performance of getValues
• Global-log compaction
• Store-level maintenance CLI
• Reduce number of tags for micrometer
• Grafana Dashboard for Nessie service
• Add new commands to generate-content tool

0.21.2 Release (March 2, 2022)¶

• Fix serialization issue

0.21.1 Release (March 2, 2022)¶

• (no user visible changes)

0.21.0 Release (March 1, 2022)¶

• Add tracing to database-adapter internals
• Introduce compatibility and upgrade tests
• Refactor StreamingUtil class
• Support for Spark 3.1 + 3.2.1 in Nessie SQL extensions
• Proper usage of commit-id in Spark SQL extensions
• Add DELETE_DEFAULT_BRANCH access check

0.20.1 Release (February 17, 2022)¶

• (no user visible changes)

0.20.0 Release (February 16, 2022)¶

• Enable metrics for MongoDB by default
• Make try-loop-state configurable and add metrics
• Reorganize routes in UI
• Improve error reporting in Nessie Java client
• Various test improvements

0.19.0 Release (February 7, 2022)¶

• Reads using “detached” commit-ids w/o specifying a branch or tag name
• Bump Nessie client version in Nessie Spark-Extensions
• Support for Iceberg views (experimental)
• Diff endpoint supports named-references + commit-on-reference as well
• Add filtering for ref-log
• Rework and simplification of the Nessie UI code

0.18.0 Release (January 13, 2022)¶

• Add reflog support
• Uses commit-timestamp “now” for merged/transplanted commits
• Add new reflog command to the CLI
• Add support for Python 3.10
• Drop support for Python 3.6

0.17.0 Release (December 08, 2021)¶

• Rename ‘query_expression’ query param to ‘filter’
• Rename ‘max’ query param to ‘maxRecords’
• Rename ‘fetchAdditionalInfo’ query param to ‘fetch’ for better extensibility

0.16.0 Release (December 03, 2021)¶

• Mark optional fields as @Nullable / add validation for required fields in param classes
• Add CEL-filter to get-all-references
• Fix NPE for unchanged operation for fetching commit log with additional metadata
• Allow CEL-filtering on optional operations in get-commit-log

0.15.1 Release (December 01, 2021)¶

• Fix wrongly placed validation annotation

0.15.0 Release (December 01, 2021)¶

• Enhance commit log to optionally return original commit operations
• Optionally return commits ahead/behind, HEAD commit-meta, commit count, common ancestor for named references
• Add missing REST endpoint to retrieve diff between two references
• Web UI improvements

0.14.0 Release (November 12, 2021)¶

• Updated IcebergTable to track more information
• UI dependencies cleanup
• OpenAPI/REST API cleanup (breaking change)

0.12.1 Release (November 3, 2021)¶

• Test code improvements
• Swagger examples fixes
• Web UI improvements
• Faster local builds w/ ./mvnw -Dquickly

0.12.0 Release (October 25, 2021)¶

• Specialize and document Nessie exceptions
• Adopt Helm chart with new Nessie server settings
• Bump to GraalVM 21.3

0.11.0 Release (October 20, 2021)¶

• Various doc + site improvements
• Fix Nessie’s representation of global and on-reference state (Iceberg tables)
• Fix CLI log -n option
• Spark SQL extension improvements

0.10.1 Release (October 8, 2021)¶

• Spark SQL extension changes
• Various (Open)API and client (Java, Python) implementation changes to prepare for better backwards compatibility.
• JUnit extension based test support against different database/store types and configurations
• Unified version-store implementations into a part w/ the Nessie logic and a tier implementing database access (MongoDB, DynamoDB, RocksDB, PostgreSQL).
• Remove JGit

0.9.2 Release (August 26, 2021)¶

• Cleanup & fixes to OpenAPI examples, for Swagger UI
• Update Deltalake client to use version 1.0.0
• Drop Deltalake support for Spark 2
• Remove Hive-Metastore bridge
• Preparations for backwards-compatible Client-API
• Spark SQL Extensions: Introduce IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE BRANCH/CREATE TAG
• Spark SQL Extensions: Updates to work with Iceberg 0.12.0

0.9.0 Release (August 9, 2021)¶

• Support for the upcoming Iceberg 0.12.0 release for both Spark 3.0 + 3.1
• Add docs for Nessie’s metadata authorization
• Add SPI for Nessie authorization with Reference implementation
• Create Helm chart for Nessie

0.8.3 Release (July 19, 2021)¶

• Fix issue in spark sql extensions
• Python CLI: Fix ser/de of DeltaLakeTable when listing contents

0.8.2 Release (July 15, 2021)¶

• Add JAX-RS server implementation based on Glassfish/Jersey/Weld for integration testing in Iceberg
• REST-API change: only accept named-references
• REST-API change: support time-travel on named-references
• REST-API change: Server-side commit range filtering
• OpenAPI: more explicit constraints on parameters
• OpenAPI: include OpenAPI yaml+json files in nessie-model artifact
• Remove already deprecated methods from ContentsApi
• Commit-log filtering on all fields of CommitMeta
• Use “Common Expression Language” for commit-log and entries filtering
• Spark-extensions for Iceberg
• Prepare for multi-tenancy
• Gatling support + simulations
• Python CLI: Fix ser/de of DeltaLakeTable when listing contents

0.7.0 Release (June 15, 2021)¶

• Server-side filtering improvements for entries-listing and log-listing
• Distinguish between author & committer in the Python CLI
• Allow setting author when committing via Python CLI
• Loosen pins for client install on Python cli
• Fix edge case when merging using in memory + jgit stores
• Gradle plugin improvements
• (Development) change to Google Code Style, add spotless plugin
• (CI) Add OWASP Dependency Check

0.6.1 Release (May 25, 2021)¶

• Gradle plugin improvements

0.6.0 Release (May 12, 2021)¶

• TreeApi.createReference() + commitMultipleOperations() return commit information
• Iceberg GC actions and a process to execute GC algorithm

0.5.1 Release (April 9, 2021)¶

• Fix Gradle plugin (non-deterministic order of dependencies causing failures)
• Fix Web-UI

0.5.0 Release (April 8, 2021)¶

• Iceberg table GC support
• Consistency fixes under high load
• Breaking changes to the backend to support richer commit metadata and data types
• Performance, metrics and tracing improvements
• Gradle plugin improvement for incremental builds

0.4.0 Release (March 8, 2020)¶

• rename base package to org.projectnessie
• NessieClient is now an interface and some easier builders
• initial implementation of GC algorithm
• major refactor of tiered classes for better modularity and extensibility
• observability improvements including better DynamoDB metrics and opentracing support for the client

0.3.0 Release (December 30, 2020)¶

• 118 commits since 0.2.1
• Replace jax-rs client with one based on HttpURLConnection
• Update Quarkus to 1.10.5
• Improvements to Server including better UI routing, validation checks on inputs etc
• Various improvements to python client and cli. Including python3.9 support

0.2.1 Release (October 30, 2020)¶

• Fix missing dateutil requirement for pynessie install
• Address path discovery in Gradle plugin (for testing in external integrations)

0.2.0 Release (October 29, 2020)¶

• Update Nessie CLI commands to better match git syntax
• Update REST Apis to be more consistent and better
• Add support for merge & cherry-pick in DynamoDB storage backend
• Add WebUI
• Introduce new DynamoDB optimizations to support faster log and entry retrieval
• Update to Quarkus 1.9.1
• Expose the new Store interface for low level storage implementations
• Introduce Quarkus Gradle runner plugin for easier third-party testing (e.g. Iceberg)
• Enable swagger-ui by default in Nessie service

0.1.0 Release (October 1, 2020)¶

• Initial release