[ANNOUNCE] Apache Calcite Avatica Go 5.0.0 released

[Francis Chuang <fr...@apache.org>]

The Apache Calcite team is pleased to announce the release of Apache 
Calcite Avatica Go 5.0.0.

Avatica is a framework for building database drivers. Avatica
defines a wire API and serialization mechanism for clients to
communicate with a server as a proxy to a database. The reference
Avatica client and server are implemented in Java and communicate
over HTTP. Avatica is a sub-project of Apache Calcite.

The Avatica Go client is a Go database/sql driver that enables Go
programs to communicate with the Avatica server.

Apache Calcite Avatica Go 5.0.0 is a major release of the Avatica Go 
client. Due to this, consumers of the package will need to update their 
import paths to "github.com/apache/calcite-avatica-go/v5".

This release also features a breaking change for connection metadata 
(CALCITE-3248): Previously, it is possible to set the HTTP username and 
password using the username and password parameters in the query string 
of the DSN. These parameters were confusing and didn’t signal the intent 
and effect of the parameters in addition to clashing with the 
avaticaUser and avaticaPassword parameters. The username and password 
parameters have now been removed as CALCITE-3248 implements the 
Connector interface via the NewConnector() method, which allows the 
driver to be instantiated with a custom HTTP client. Subsequently, it is 
now possible to set up the driver with a custom HTTP client and decorate 
it with the WithDigestAuth(), WithBasicAuth(), WithKerberosAuth() and 
WithAdditionalHeaders() methods.

For this release, support for the `dep` dependency manager has been 
removed and the recommended way to install this package is to use Go 
modules.

This release includes updated dependencies, testing against more
targets as well as a batching support to improve performance when 
working with large amount of changes using prepared statements. More 
information is available in the release notes:

   https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/docs/go_history.html#v5-0-0

The release is available here:

   https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/downloads/avatica-go.html

We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to
report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at

   https://calcite.apache.org/avatica

or the Apache Calcite project website:

   https://calcite.apache.org/

Francis Chuang, on behalf of the Apache Calcite Team