Add Trino 438 release notes

[colebow]

Description

Assemble the release notes for the upcoming Trino 438 release.

Release notes

(x) This is not user-visible or 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

25 Jan 2024

• Update arrow, netty and other dependencies  #20442 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix some minor issues with test methods #20460 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use native S3 for connector tests #20288 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Make Hadoop a test dependency for Parquet #20456 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Do not depend on uuid tool to generate node id #20463 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Cleanup ErrorProne warnings #20129 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add test for BenchmarkSTArea #20465 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Align documentation with implementation #20461 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Convert more tests to StandaloneQueryRunner #20459 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support orc/parquet/rcfile GMT+/- type timezone in Hive #20221 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add human readable days routine example #20172 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update testcontainers to 1.19.4 #20468 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add Slice support to reduce_agg function #20452 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove redundant code from TestIcebergMigrateProcedure #20472 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix divide by zero #20376 ✅ rn ✅ docs

26 Jan 2024

• Replace BlockBuilder beginEntry/closeEntry with buildEntry connectors.md #20464 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Change catalog not found error messages to match error code name #20470 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• TestIcebergGlueTableOperationsInsertFailure: Adjust expectations for the thrown exception #20475 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Clarify REST API access control #20462 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add support for ALTER COLUMN ... DROP NOT NULL statement in Iceberg and PostgreSQL connectors #20366 ✅ rn ✅ docs

27 Jan 2024

• Implement adaptive concurrency in thread-per-driver scheduler #20451 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Introduce .mvn/maven.config #20479 ✅ rn ✅ docs

28 Jan 2024

• Enforce ErrorProne UnusedVariable #20488 ✅ rn ✅ docs

29 Jan 2024

• Remove unused product test config class #20494 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow configuring maximum value count of pages written in parquet #20171 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove unused property #20101 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve spilling docs for workers #20383 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve wording for worker only config #20499 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add support for DATE type and run BaseConnectorTest in Pinot Connector #17582 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Minor cleanup in Pinot connector #20502 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix never run some product tests groups #20493 ✅ rn ✅ docs

30 Jan 2024

• Assert that block/page size is non-negative #20505 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Throw TrinoException when user selects to LZ4 for Parquet Hive table  #20496 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Only set partition count for HASH partitioned exchanges in FTE #20380 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix race condition in testCancelWhileYielding #20512 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update trino-maven-plugin to 13 #20514 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix assertTrinoExceptionThrownBy #20506 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add dots example routine #20173 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support complex type in migrate procedure #17779 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Function reverse supports char type #20388 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix broken testNoDataSystemTable in BigQuery #20519 ✅ rn ✅ docs

31 Jan 2024

• Add support for dropping corrupted tables to Iceberg Nessie Catalog #20360 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• [Extracted Commits] Adaptive planning FTE #20513 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix IcebergSplitSource.scannedFiles set semantics #20490 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Revamp failure testing with query assertions #20509 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fixed constant expression being passed to Connector through applyProjection #20226 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix test flakiness #20523 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add support for Open Policy Agent #19532 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add docs for OPA access control #20246 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• QueryRunner cleanup #20483 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix TypedKeyValueHeap compaction #20527 ✅ rn ✅ docs

1 Feb 2024

• More assertion related cleanups  #20522 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update dependencies [jan 29] #20498 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Skip hive tests if module was not impacted #20535 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Restore getLoadedBlock methods (for dictionary and RLE) #20536 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Merge redundant test base class #20540 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Handle timeouts on initial query request #20538 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Propagate RowPositionsAppender reset to fields #20529 ✅ rn ✅ docs

[mosabua]

Need to add #19532

[mosabua]

Looks good once the OPA stuff is in.

[martint]

This is incorrect. It covers more than string types (as I mentioned in an earlier round of review).

[martint]

What's a "variable-width value"?

[ebyhr]

The entry for ALTER COLUMN ... DROP NOT NULL is missing. #20491