Release 0.74

    The storage format to use when writing data to Hive can now be configured via the hive.storage-format option in your Hive catalog properties file. Valid options are RCBINARY, RCTEXT, and TEXTFILE. The default format if the property is not set is RCBINARY.

    • Add try_cast() which works like but returns null if the cast fails

    • Fix an issue with timezone_hour() returning results in milliseconds instead of hours

    • Improve “too many failures” error message when coordinator can’t talk to workers

    • Improve feature normalization algorithm for machine learning functions

    • Improve CPU efficiency of semi-joins