[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Bi-Weekly Update(2020-10-11 ~ 2020-10-25)

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

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community bi-weekly update for 2020-10-11 ~ 2020-10-25
with updates on features, bugfixs and tests.

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Features

[Flink Integration] Introduce HoodieFlinkEngineContext to hudi-flink-client
[1]
[Hive Integration] Add support for timestamp field in HiveSync [2]
[Writer Core] IBM Cloud Object Storage Support [3]
[Metrics] Added an API to force publish metrics and flush them [4]


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Bugs

[DeltaStreamer] Replace null by Option in Delta Streamer [5]
[Index] Fix the support of hbase index partition path change [6]
[Writer Core] Add better error messages when IOException occurs during log
file reading [7]
[Writer Core] Remove relocation of pattern for hbase dependencies and add
shading of guava in hadoop, spark, and presto bundles [8]
[Writer Core] Remove Hbase and htrace relocation from utilities bundle [9]
[Writer Core] handle prefix filtering at directory level [10]
[Writer Core] fixed NPE in CustomKeyGenerator [11]
[DeltaStreamer] Properties File must be optional when running deltastreamer
[12]


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Tests

[Test] Migrate HoodieTestUtils APIs to HoodieTestTable [13]
[Test] Add unit test for testing compaction on replaced file groups [14]
[Test] add test to check timestamp date decimal type write and read
consistent [15]
[Test] add more test for UpdateSchemaEvolution [16]


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1308
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1302
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1344
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1326
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-791
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1184
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1298
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1289
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1345
[10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1330
[11] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1200
[12] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1209
[13] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-995
[14] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1304
[15] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-307
[16] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-284



Best,
Leesf