[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Update(2021-09-26 ~ 2021-10-10)

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

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community bi-weekly updates for 2021-09-26 ~ 2021-10-10
with updates on features, bug fixes and tests.


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Features

[Core] Add dependency change diff script for dependency governace [1]
[Spark SQL] support 'show partitions' sql [2]



[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2440
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2456


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Bugs

[Core] Fix JsonKafkaSource cannot filter empty messages from kafka [1]
[Core] Refreshing timeline for every operation in Hudi when metadata is
enabled [2]
[DeltaStreamer] HoodieDeltaStreamer reading ORC files directly using
ORCDFSSource [3]
[Hive Integration] Making jdbc-url, user and pass as non-required field for
other sync modes [4]
[Core] Refactor clean and restore actions in hudi-client module [5]
[Core] Metadata table synchronous design [6]
[Core] Refactor table upgrade and downgrade actions in hudi-client module
[7]
[Flink Integration] Remove the sort operation when bulk_insert in batch
mode [8]


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2487
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2474
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2277
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2499
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2497
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2285
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2513
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2534



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Tests

[Tests] Adding async compaction support to integ test suite framework [1]



[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-2530



Best,
Leesf