Script Language Container is updated to version 8.0.0

Detail name	Value
Changelog Number	20704
Type	Improvement
Status	Resolved
Fix Versions	Exasol 8.28.0
Resolution Date	2024-05-29

Background

Exasol database allows users to create and run scripts (User Defined Functions) in several languages.

Database component implementing support for those languages is called Script Language Container.

There are containers built into database installations and also custom ones that could be prepared by users on-demand and uploaded to BucketFS for further use. See Adding New Packages to Existing Script Languages for more details.

Improvement

The built-in Script Language Container is updated to script-languages-release version 8.0.0.

Changed behavior

Language Versions provided for UDF's have changed: - R3.6 -> 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 8.28.0 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