[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Bi-Weekly Update(2020-12-20 ~ 2021-01-03)

[leesf <le...@gmail.com>]

Dear community,

Happy New Year everyone. Nice to share Hudi community bi-weekly updates for
2020-12-20 ~ 2021-01-03 with updates on features, bug fixes and tests.


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Features

[Core] Adding DefaultHoodieRecordPayload to honor ordering with
combineAndGetUpdateValue [1]
[Client] Add base implementation for hudi java client [2]
[Core] Implement simple clustering strategies to create ClusteringPlan and
to run the plan [3]
[Core] Support bulk insert v2 with Spark 3.0.0 [4]
[Core] Block updates and replace on file groups in clustering [5]
[Core] Support Partition level delete API in HUDI [6]
[Core] Upgrade Flink version to 1.12.0 [7]
[Client] Support delete in hudi-java-client [8]

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-115
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1419
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1075
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1451
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1354
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1350
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1495
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1423


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Bugs

[QuickStart] Make QuickStartUtils generate deletes according to specific ts
[1]
[Core] Fix Deletes issued without any prior commits exception [2]
[Bootstrap] Fix null pointer exception when reading updated written
bootstrap table [3]
[Core] Incremental Query should work even when there are partitions that
have no incremental changes [4]
[Core] Align insert file size for reducing IO [5]
[Hive Integration] Escape the partition value in HiveSyncTool [6]
[Core] Modify GenericRecordFullPayloadGenerator to generate valid
timestamps [7]
[Core] Fixed schema compatibility check for fields [8]
[Core] fix incorrect log file path in HoodieWriteStat [9]


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1471
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1485
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1489
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1490
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1398
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1484
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1147
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1493
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1434


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Tests

[Tests] Fix Test Case Failure in TestHBaseIndex [1]
[Tests] fix unit test testCopyOnWriteStorage random failed [2]
[Tests] Adding support for validating entire dataset and long running tests
in test suite framework [3]
[Tests] add structured streaming and delta streamer clustering unit test [4]
[Tests] Add additional unit tests to TestHBaseIndex [5]
[Tests] Set up flink client unit test infra [6]

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1488
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1487
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1331
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1481
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1474
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1418


Best,
Leesf