v1.8.0

For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

• Query syntax:
  • Supports RANGE frames in window function calls. #14416
• SQL commands:
  • Adds support for embedded Rust UDFs. #14903
  • Adds support for embedded Python UDFs. #15168
  • Supports refreshing the schema of a table created using an external connection to get the latest schema. #15025
  • Supports refreshing the schema of a source to get the latest schema. #15541
  • Adds a description column to the system parameters table. #15113
  • Supports authenticating with OAuth token acquired from the Cloud when creating a user. #13151
• SQL functions & operators:
  • Supports ruby-pg. #14859
  • Supports VARIADIC arguments for the functions format, concat_ws, jsonb_build_array, jsonb_build_object, jsonb_extract_path, jsonb_extract_path_text. #14753
  • Supports concat function. #14753
• System catalog:
  • Adds missing columns for  pg_catalog.pg_index, rw_catalog.rw_columns and information_schema.columns, and system view pg_catalog.pg_partitioned_table. #15151
  • Supports pg_catalog.pg_constraint for DBeaver compatibility. #15227
  • Supports pg_catalog.pg_stat_get_numscans for DBeaver. #15642
  • Supports system table rw_depend. #15385
  • Supports pg_settings catalog. #15108

Connectors

• Breaking change: Sinks created from v1.6 and earlier that have decouple enabled may cause compatibility issues. Check if you have any sinks with this configuration by using the internal table rw_sink_decouple before upgrading to v1.8. #15613
• Avro tables and sources now require a schema registry during creation. #15256
• Supports using Karapace when specifying a schema registry. #15486
• Supports Protobuf data format for NATS JetStream source. #15378
• Supports FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE BYTES for NATS source connector. #15806
• Supports Confluent schema registry for Kafka sinks when using FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE PROTOBUF. #15546
• Adds Kafka sink and source parameter enable.ssl.certificate.verification. #15073
• Supports max_batch_rows and  request_timeout parameters for Cassandra and ScyllaDB sources. #15516
• Adds built-in MongoDB CDC source connector. #14966
• Adds ignore_option parameter for sources created using Debezium format. #15304
• Supports batch read from Iceberg source. #15214
• Supports automatically deriving columns from Iceberg source. #15415
• Supports JDBC catalog for Iceberg sources. #15551
• Adds JDBC and Hive catalogs for Iceberg sink. #14885

Installation and deployment

Supports tab-completion for SET and ALTER SYSTEM SET commands in psql client. feat(frontend): support tab-completion for [ALTER SYSTEM] SET

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

v1.7.3

release v1.7.3

v1.7.2

release v1.7.2

v1.7.1

release v1.7.1

v1.7.0

For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

• Query syntax:
  • Supports using * when creating a table or source with schema from an external connector to read all columns. #14644
  • Supports INCLUDE clause to add additional connector columns. #14215
  • Supports INCLUDE HEADER clause to specify desired keys in header and make it a column. #14628
• SQL commands:
  • Supports changing the schema registry by redefining the format_encode_options. #14057
• SQL functions & operators:
  • Adds experimental support for JavaScript UDF. #14513
  • Adds experimental support for Rust UDF. #14271
  • Supports implicit type cast for UDF. #14458
  • Supports named SQL UDF. #14806
  • Supports encrypt and decrypt functions. #14717
  • Supports make_date(), make_time(), and make_timestamp(). #14827
• System catalog:
  • Change rw_streaming_parallelism to allow queries on streaming job parallelism with job name and type. Adds system view rw_fragment_parallelism to allow for queries on parallelism information at fragment level #14789, #14261
  • Adds relpersistence in pg_class catalog. #14400
  • Supports pg_get_viewdef() . #14336

Connectors

• Cassandra and ScyllaDB sinks no longer support timestamp type. #14413
• Updates StarRocks sink connector parameters. #14823
• Introduces snapshot option to allow users to disable CDC backfill and to only consume from the latest changelog. #14718
• Sets the default value of transactional parameter to true for MySQL and Postgres CDC shared sources. #14899

Installation and deployment

[Pre-Release] Supports single_node node to run RisingWave in a single process.

Cluster configuration changes

• Introduce a session variable batch_enable_distributed_dml to enable batch ingesting. #14630
• Changes wording from AUTO to ADAPTIVE parallelism. #14414
• Supports adaptive scaling for streaming jobs by default. #14873

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0

v1.7.0-standalone

release v1.7.0-standalone

v1.7.0-single-node-2

release v1.7.0-single-node-2

v1.7.0-single-node

release v1.7.0-single-node

v1.6.1

release v1.6.1

v1.6.0

For installation and running instructions, see Get started.

Main changes

SQL features

• Query syntax:
  • Allows NOW in upper bound condition for temporal filters. #13985
  • Supports temporal filters with multiple OR expressions. #14382
  • Supports <expr> [ NOT ] SIMILAR TO <pat> [ ESCAPE <esc_text> ] clause. #14000
  • Breaking change: Fixes the correctness of SOME, ALL, and ANY expressions. Drop and recreate any materialized views that use these expressions. #14221
  • Supports array subquery and \du command. #14044
  • Supports SET PARALLELISM clause for ALTER commands. #14240
• SQL commands:
  • Technical preview feature: Supports CREATE SINK INTO TABLE. Multiple sinks can use the same table as the target. #13185, #13659
• SQL functions & operators:
  • Breaking change: 0b10 is now interpreted as binary 10 instead of 0 as b10. Integer literals can be given in hex 0x, oct 0o and bin 0b. #14262
  • Supports interval type as input for to_char(). #14071
• System catalog:
  • Add system view rw_streaming_parallelism. #14261

Connectors

• Adds CDC backfill support for Postgres so users can ingest multiple PostgreSQL tables with a single replication slot. #13958
• Support multi-table transaction from upstream MySQL & Postgres CDC. Specify transactional = true in the WITH options to enabled it. #14375
• Renames scan.startup.timestamp_millis to scan.startup.timestamp.millis for Kafka, Pulsar and NATS source. #13656
• Adds properties.ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm parameter for Kafka source and sink.#13990
• Supports FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE PROTOBUF syntax for Kafka sink. #12858
• Supports GCS file source. #13414
• Breaking change: For ClickHouse sinks, timestamptz can be sinked to DateTime64. timestamp cannot be sinked and has to be converted to timestamptz first before being sinked. #13672
• For Elasticsearch sinks, the default es.type is set as _doc for Elasticsearch 6.x and 7.x. #14273
• connector = 'iceberg_java' is deprecated, and users can only Iceberg sinks with the Rust version of Iceberg. Similarly, the DeltaLake sink will also use the Rust version implementation. #14277
• Supports StarRocks sink. #12681

Installation and deployment

• Allows for storage.prefetch_buffer_capacity_mb to be configured in the TOML file to prevent out of memory issues. #13558
• Supports Huawei Cloud OBS as the storage backend. #13844

Cluster configuration changes

• Supports setting statement_timeout value for queries. #13933
• Exposes SSL functionality through RW_SSL_CERT and RW_SSL_KEY environment variables to configure SSL certificates and key file location. #14062

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0