Add Trino 469 release notes

[mosabua]

Description

Assemble the release notes for the upcoming Trino 469 release.

Additional context and related issues

See https://github.com/trinodb/trino/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A469

Release notes

(x) This is not user-visible or is docs only, and no release notes are required.

Verification for each pull request

Format: PR/issue number, ✅ / ❌ rn ✅ / ❌ docs
✅ rn - release note added and verified, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ rn before completion
✅ docs - need for docs assessed and merged, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ docs before completion

18 Dec 2024

• Do not require Java presence for RPM installation #24507 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow left side as update target in join pushdown #24447 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Bind filesystem cache metrics per catalog #24514 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Cleanup InformationSchemaPageSource projection #24520 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add hive4 query runner and tests #24418 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Introduce SystemEnvironmentUtils #24501 ✅ rn ✅ docs

19 Dec 2024

• Fix misspelling in Iceberg #24529 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Test Iceberg concurrent update without partition #24527 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Extract KuduColumnProperties from KuduTableProperties #24508 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix S3InputStream's handling of large skips #24521 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Updates dec 19 #24532 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use QUERY_EXCEEDED_COMPILER_LIMIT error code #24536 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Include deletion vector when filtering active add entries in Delta #24524 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add nonnull check for directExchangeClientSupplier #24504 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add $entries metadata table to Iceberg #24172 ✅ rn ✅ docs

20 Dec 2024

• Run Iceberg concurrent tests multiple times #24548 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update client driver and application sections #24550 ✅ rn ✅ docs

21 Dec 2024

• Document sort direction and null order in Iceberg #24554 ✅ rn ✅ docs

22 Dec 2024

• Improve performance when listing columns in Iceberg #23909 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove support for Databricks 9.1 LTS #24553 ✅ rn ✅ docs

23 Dec 2024

• Pin openpolicyagent/opa version as 0.70.0 #24560 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add iceberg_tables table function #24469 ❌ rn ❌ docs
• Support MERGE for Ignite connector #24443 ✅ rn ✅ docs, Improve connector SQL support sections #24523
• Remove unused delta-lake-databricks-104 test group #24564 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add $all_entries metadata table to Iceberg #24543 ✅ rn ❌ docs, Document $entries table in Iceberg #24542
• Delete the oldest tracked version metadata files after commit in Iceberg #24306 ✅ rn ✅ docs

24 Dec 2024

• Using airlift log in SimulationController #24557 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Stream large transaction log jsons instead of storing in-memory #24491 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use by default ZSTD Parquet compression codec for Delta Lake #17426 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add query execution metrics to JDBC QueryStats #24571 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow configuring parquet_bloom_filter_columns with SET PROPERTIES in Iceberg #24573 ✅ rn ✅ docs

25 Dec 2024

• Verify invalid bloom filter properties in Iceberg #24574 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support managing views in the Faker connector #24242 ✅ rn ✅ docs

26 Dec 2024

• Add views support to the Faker connector docs #24581 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Replace predicate pushdown in the Faker connector with column properties  #24323 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Rename to Trino in product tests #24583 ✅ rn ✅ docs

27 Dec 2024

• Extract dep.gib.version property #24589 ✅ rn ✅ docs

28 Dec 2024

• Convert testRollbackToSnapshotWithNullArgument to integration test #24578 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add newTrinoTable method to AbstractTestQueryFramework #24337 ✅ rn ✅ docs

29 Dec 2024

No PRs merged.

30 Dec 2024

• Allow running product tests on IPv6 stack #24533 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Dependency updates dec 30 #24594 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove unreachable code in OrderedPeriodParser #24405 ✅ rn ✅ docs

31 Dec 2024

• Support generating sequences in the Faker connector #24590 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Configure SSL for unauthenticated client #24595 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Class-level resource access type #24531 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix parsing of negative 0x, 0b, 0o long literals #24602 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update lucene-analysis-common to 10.1.0 #24603 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add support for fetching Redshift query results using Redshift unload command #24117 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Copy all TPCH tables during initialization in TestRedshiftUnload #24605 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add physicalInputTimeMillis to io.trino.jdbc.QueryStats #24604 ✅ rn ✅ docs

1 Jan 2025

• Fix listing of files in AlluxioFileSystem #23815 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add info about views in memory only #24607 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Minor improvements to Python UDF docs #24608 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve connector SQL support sections #24523 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• More metastore cleanup #22899 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add SSE-C option on native-filesystem security mapping #24566 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove support for connector event listeners #24609 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Minor cleanups #24610 ✅ rn ✅ docs

2 Jan 2025

• Sql types SPI cleanup #24228 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Derive aws sdk retry count from request count #24606 ✅ rn ✅ docs

[mosabua]

I think we need to reword this @martint .. it fixes issue #17003 so we might even change to link to that instead.

[mosabua]

Is this a bug fix? How can we better describe the user impact @ebyhr ?

From quick glance it seems a clean up work that has performance benefits..