Release Note 26.0.0

[JNSimba]

Features & Improvements

1. Support Doris DECIMAL256 type #628
2. Support nested type fields in ArrayData #606
3. Support http request with UTF-8 charset encoding #623
4. Add configurable Thrift max message size #593
5. Optimize MongoDB CDC type inference to avoid unnecessary decimal conversion #596
6. Improve error message when FE host is invalid #629
7. Support Flink 2.x #636

Bug Fixes

1. Fix label being set during group commit retries #635
2. Fix batch stream load handling for types that do not have line delimiters #619
3. Fix incorrect DDL generation when a Doris field has an empty string as its default value #600
4. Fix typo in BackendClient that could affect Arrow Flight reads #622

Thanks

@QuakeWang
@JNSimba
@jqcc
@potterhe
@kwonder0926
@gnehil
@keytouch
@AlexRiedler