What StarRocks/starrocks shipped

Releases this week: 4.1.7, 4.1.6, 4.0.17, 4.0.16. Credential values masked in config endpoints and logs. Primary key inserts skip L1/L2 duplicate checks by default in local mode. Fixes for Iceberg DATETIME partitions, CHAR point lookups, and NULL-row decimal overflow.

This week StarRocks shipped 4.1.7, 4.1.6, 4.0.17 and 4.0.16. The 4.0.17 release masks credential values in BE and FE config endpoints and logs. In 4.1.7, local primary key inserts no longer check immutable L1 and L2 persistent-index files for duplicate keys by default, controlled by the skip_pindex_l1_l2_check_in_insert setting. Fixes landed for Iceberg identity partitions on DATETIME columns giving a one-second instead of one-day range, external materialized view partitions that stripped to the same name replacing each other, CHAR values returned padded from primary-key point lookups, and decimal overflow errors raised from NULL rows under ERROR_IF_OVERFLOW. Lake compaction also gains an opt-in table allowlist mode.

This week: primary key column-subset INSERT can skip the partial update path on unwritten partitions, HAVING is normalized after constant key folding, string IN predicates avoid dictionary misreads, and unsupported geo operations are rejected in analysis.

This week's changes include a planner improvement so column-subset INSERT into primary key tables uses a plain insert when target partitions were never written, avoiding the partial update path. HAVING clauses are normalized after a constant group-by key is folded in, string IN predicates longer than the pushdown limit are no longer read as dictionary codes during runtime filter normalization, and materialized view pruning now preserves columns needed by late predicates. Unsupported scalar GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY operations are rejected during analysis, and geo descriptor handling in aggregate states is more consistent.

StarRocks 4.0.17 is out. Security integration users can now authenticate over HTTP, Arrow Flight SQL and load RPCs. Also fixed: repeated-key JSON flattening, global dictionary renewal across FEs, SHOW DATABASES FROM privilege check, and aggregate spill issues.

StarRocks 4.0.17 is released. Security integration users can now authenticate over HTTP, Arrow Flight SQL and the load RPCs, not only through the MySQL protocol. This week also brings fixes for stored JSON that repeats a key, where flattening now emits one value per row; global dictionary renewal across FEs that caused Dict Decode failures on followers; an unsafe pointer in the JSON column compactor; and missing slice locks when reading min/max runtime filter bounds. SHOW DATABASES FROM an external catalog now checks catalog-level privilege first. Additional fixes cover bool_or merging an intermediate column with NULLs and a leak when an agg-state combinator batch-destroys.

Weekly StarRocks: CAST(x AS CHAR(N)) truncates like MySQL, INSERT OVERWRITE gives a clear error when a source partition disappears, EXPORT jobs stop being cancelled seconds after start, MIN/MAX on LIST partition columns no longer returns values no row holds, and local paths in th

This week in StarRocks: CAST(x AS CHAR(N)) now truncates to N characters like MySQL, INSERT OVERWRITE reports a clear error when a source partition is dropped or renamed before commit, and EXPORT jobs are no longer cancelled a few seconds after they start. MIN and MAX on single-column LIST partition columns no longer return values the data may not hold, mixed dictionary and non-dictionary aggregates are no longer rejected, an oversized array_generate range returns an error instead of taking down the BE, and credentials in SUBMIT TASK SQL are masked in task_run_history. Shared-data fixes cover primary key recover on V2-encoded single-column fixed-length keys, vector index files during rowset migration, and bundle metadata re-reads, and the diagnostics tools can now scope segment and tablet

This week: aborted shared-data loads now reclaim their PK index sstables, FULL OUTER JOIN USING keeps the join key type, CSV unload via INSERT INTO FILES accepts duplicate column names, and Paimon branch state is isolated per table.

This week's changes focus on shared-data loads and external tables. Aborted loads now reclaim their primary key index sstables instead of leaving them on object storage for full vacuum to miss. Paimon branch state is isolated per table so multi-table queries cannot apply one table's branch to another. CSV unload through INSERT INTO FILES now accepts duplicate output column names, a FULL OUTER JOIN USING column keeps its own type on the join key, and failed multi-table transaction commits report the failure rather than an OK status. External table statistics that failed to load are no longer cached as no statistics, and cache eviction no longer disconnects a filesystem still in use by a writer. Connector I/O stays off FE metadata locks on the 4.0 and 4.1 branches.

StarRocks 4.1.6 and 4.0.16 released. New native H3 spatial indexing, SRID support, ST_Buffer and ST_Intersection operations. Fixes for Ranger authorization, GROUP BY correctness, and credential masking.

StarRocks 4.1.6 and 4.0.16 are now available. This week's releases include native H3 spatial indexing functions, SRID metadata and coordinate transforms for GEOMETRY, new polygon operations (ST_Buffer, ST_Intersection, ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology), and important fixes for Ranger authorization queries, GROUP BY ROLLUP/CUBE correctness, and object storage credential security.

StarRocks: GEO containment for spatial queries, ARM64 CPU detection, memory usage reporting fixed, LDAP case-insensitive auth, and metrics counting corrected.

StarRocks improvements this week: Native GEO containment predicates for POINT/POLYGON queries, ARM64 CPU feature detection (NEON, CRC32, SVE), fixed sys.fe_memory_usage reporting, case-insensitive LDAP/AD authentication, corrected QueryCumulativeCpuTime and QuerySpillBytes metrics, and materialized view rewrite fixes.

StarRocks 4.1.3 ships with VARCHAR(N) length preservation in CTAS, native Iceberg GEOGRAPHY reads, and fixes for FULL OUTER JOIN value shifting, metadata lock contention, and security vulnerabilities.

StarRocks 4.1.3 is out with important correctness and performance fixes. FULL OUTER JOIN with multiple USING columns now returns accurate values, prepared statement caching respects parameter positions correctly, and metadata locks no longer block on external connector I/O. We've also added native Iceberg GEOGRAPHY support, made configuration more flexible with configurable publish timeouts, and patched security vulnerabilities in Apache Ranger and BouncyCastle.