[ANNOUNCE] Apache Drill 1.19.0 Released

[Laurent <la...@apache.org>]

On behalf of the Apache Drill community, I am happy to announce the
release of Apache Drill 1.19.0.

Drill is an Apache open-source SQL query engine for Big Data exploration.
Drill is designed from the ground up to support high-performance analysis
on the semi-structured and rapidly evolving data coming from modern Big
Data applications, while still providing the familiarity and ecosystem of
ANSI SQL, the industry-standard query language. Drill provides
plug-and-play integration with existing Apache Hive and Apache HBase
deployments.

For information about Apache Drill, and to get involved, visit the
project website [1].

Total of 115 JIRA's are resolved in this release of Drill with following
new features and improvements [2]:

 - Cassandra Storage Plugin (DRILL-92)
 - Elasticsearch Storage Plugin (DRILL-3637)
 - XML Storage Plugin (DRILL-7823)
 - Splunk Storage Plugin (DRILL-7751)
 - Avro with schema registry support for Kafka (DRILL-5940)
 - Secure mechanism for specifying storage plugin credentials (DRILL-7855)
 - Linux ARM64 based system support (DRILL-7921)
 - Rowset based JSON reader (DRILL-6953)
 - Use streaming for REST JSON queries (DRILL-7733)
 - Several plugins have been converted to the Enhanced Vector Framework (EVF)
   - Convert SequenceFiles to EVF (DRILL-7525)
   - Convert SysLog to EVF (DRILL-7532)
   - Convert Pcapng to EVF (DRILL-7533)
   - Convert HTTPD format plugin to EVF (DRILL-7534)
   - Convert Image Format to EVF (DRILL-7533)

For the full list please see release notes [3].

The binary and source artifacts are available here [4].

Thanks to everyone in the community who contributed to this release!

1. https://drill.apache.org/
2. https://drill.apache.org/blog/2021/06/10/drill-1.19-released/
3. https://drill.apache.org/docs/apache-drill-1-19-0-release-notes/
4. https://drill.apache.org/download/