[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Weekly Update(2020-08-23 ~ 2020-08-30)

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

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community weekly update for 2020-08-23 ~ 2020-08-30 with
updates on discussion, features, bugfixs.

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Discussion

[Release] Hudi 0.6.0 has been released, it contains many features and
bugfixes [1]


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Features

[Writer Core] Add option to configure different path selector [2]
[Writer Core] Add back findInstantsAfterOrEquals to the HoodieTimeline
class. [3]
[Writer Core] Make timeline server timeout settings configurable [4]
[Writer Common] Add incremental meta client API to query partitions
modified in a time window [5]
[Writer Core] Tune buffer sizes for the diskbased external spillable map [6]
[Build] Specify version information for each component separately [7]
[Core] Add utility method to query extra metadata [8]


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Bugs

[Writer Core] Fix unable to parse input partition field :1 exception when
using TimestampBasedKeyGenerator [9]
[Writer Core] Fix ComplexKeyGenerator for non-partitioned tables [10]
[Release] Fix release validate script for rc_num and release_type [11]
[Core] Fix: Avro Date logical type not handled correctly when converting to
Spark Row [12]


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Tests

[DOCS] Add java doc for the test classes of hudi test suite [13]


[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb62934ceff46fc15800afa1947b15fa6f62c15d90c48fd56940a874d%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1137
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1136
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1135
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1191
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1131
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-978
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1228
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1150
[10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1226
[11] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1056
[12] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1225
[13] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-532


Best,
Leesf