Version 7.1.30 Release Notes

Release date: 2024-10-29

This list provides an overview of all changes in version 7.1.30.

Download version 7.1.30 from the Exasol Download Portal.

Changed behavior

Changelog entry Changed behavior
21896 The PostgreSQL JDBC driver which is included in Exasol installations has been updated from version 42.2.9 to 42.7.4. Please check PostgreSQL JDBC driver documentation for possible changed behavior.
21605 Language Versions provided for UDF's have changed: - R3.4 -> R4.4 - Python 3.8 -> Python 3.10 Base Ubuntu version used inside Script Language Container: - Ubuntu 20.04 -> Ubuntu 22.04 Detailed package changes can be found by the following links (prior version 7.1.30 container version 6.0.0 was used): - https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/changes_6.1.0.md - https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/changes_7.0.0.md - https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/changes_7.1.0.md - https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/changes_8.0.0.md - https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/changes_8.1.0.md Especially the following packages were removed: ### Python - pygments - pykickstart ### R - latticeExtra - car - dichromat - rredis R had to be updated to version 4 to mitigate possible security issues. Unfortunately, the performance of some operations, most noticeably speed of string concatenations, has deteriorated.

Improvements

Changelog entry Summary
21896 Updated PostgreSQL JDBC driver to version 42.7.4
21605 Script Language Container is updated to version 8.1.0
21280 An unnecessary jQuery dependency was removed

Bug fixes

Changelog entry Summary
22252 Remote backups using FTP/FTPS or SMB do not work on systems with large numbers of nodes and large amounts of data.
21907 OS security update breaks EXAClusterOS startup
21877 Database doesn't accept connections or process SQL statements
21578 Fix wrong results from UNION elimination with filter on TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE column
20712 Truncate metadata strings from virtual schemas if they are too long for system table columns