Summary
This release includes a lot of enhancements, improvements, bug fixes, and vulnerability fixes.
Community edition
Enhancements
- Added the encrypted column concept to ScalarDB. (#1907 #1975)
- Added support for MariaDB 11.4 and Oracle 19. (#2061)
Improvements
- Added options for changing the key column size for MySQL and Oracle and used 128 bytes as the default. (#2245)
- Changed the default value of the metadata cache expiration time (
scalar.db.metadata.cache_expiration_time_secs
) to 60 seconds. (#2274)
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where
NullPointerException
when a table specified in a Get/Scan object is not found in Consensus Commit. (#2083) - Fixed a corner case issue that causes inconsistent Coordinator states when lazy recovery happens before group commit (#2135)
- Upgraded the mysql driver to fix security issues. CVE-2023-22102 (#2238)
Enterprise edition
Enhancements
ScalarDB Cluster
- Added support for encrypted columns introduced in #1907 to ScalarDB Cluster.
- Added support for the group commit feature for the Coordinator table.
- Added support for encryption.
- Added support for
getCurrentUser()
inDistributedTransactionAdmin
andMetadata
to retrieve the current logged-in user.
ScalarDB SQL
- Added support for encrypted columns introduced in #1907 for the Metadata API.
- Added support for encrypted columns for
CREATE TABLE
andALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
statements. - Added
SHOW USERS
andSHOW GRANTS
commands, which list users and privileges for a specified user, respectively.
Improvements
ScalarDB GraphQL
- With this update, if
scalar.db.graphql.namespaces
is not specified, GraphQL server generates a GraphQL schema for all tables in all ScalarDB-managed namespaces.
Bug fixes
ScalarDB Cluster
- Fixed a bug where
NullPointerException
occurs when catching an exception without message. - Upgraded
grpc_health_probe
to fix a security issue. CVE-2024-34156 - Upgraded
scalar-admin
to fix a security issue. CVE-2024-25638 - Upgraded the Protobuf Java library to fix a security issue. CVE-2024-7254