Version 2025.1.3 Release Notes

Release date: 2025-09-17

This list provides an overview of all changes in version 2025.1.3.

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Changed behavior

Changelog entry Changed behavior
26823 Release 9.7.0 of the Script-Languages-Container was integrated, which provides security related updates of several Ubuntu and PyPi packages. Lists of changed packages in SLC since SLC version 9.6.0 can be found at: https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/changes/package_diffs/9.7.0/README.md
24159 Only users with role DBA can see the contents of the PASSWORD column in the system table EXA_DBA_USERS
8270 Some minor variations in behavior involving geometry data types are possible due to changes in the libraries.

New features

Changelog entry Summary
26664 Activate new block compressors
25492 Case-insensitive comparison of identifiers

Improvements

Changelog entry Summary
27013 Date-to-Timestamp Conversion in Parquet Reader: Newly Supported with Default Time Set to 00:00:00
26994 Enhanced Parquet Reader: Support Added for Boolean-to-Decimal Conversion
26843 Enhanced AWS Logging for Improved ETL (Parquet Reader) Observability and Debugging
26841 Configurable Retry Mechanism for Parquet Reader with MaxRetry and etlParquetMaxRetry Parameters
26823 Script Language Container is updated to version 9.7.0
26748 Validate Parquet Reader Connection String and DB Parameters for Inappropriate Values
26629 Updated Runtime with updated dependencies
26410 Enhanced Parquet Reader Batch Size Configuration
26225 Improve compression of columns with 32K to 64K distinct values.
25548 Unicode is supported in BucketFS file names.
25311 HTTPS connections to BucketFS include Strict-Transport-Security header
24159 Password in EXA_DBA_USERS
23792 Subquery Cache Within Single Query
19101 Existing indicies are now used in Snapshot Mode execution
8270 Update for the geometry data type libraries

Bug fixes

Changelog entry Summary
27065 Parquet Reader Supports AWS S3 Region-Specific Bucket URLs
27025 Fix for Precision Loss in Int64 to Double Conversion in Parquet Reader
26826 ETL: Parquet Import with Nested Structure Column - skipcols Not Working
26715 Wrong number of rows after Join is pushed in UNION ALL
26698 BucketFS hangs or deletes files inadvertedly
26651 Host deployments will try to connect to S3 when validating packages.
26637 BucketFS may hang indefinitely during shutdown
26571 Out of memory errors when using AWS S3 SDFS backend
26518 bucketfsd high memory usage
26499 Allow upload of TLS certificates with wildcard DNS name
26411 Resolved OOM Issue in Parquet Loader with Configurable Batch Size and Optimized Defaults
26294 Add additional restart of admin-ui service at the end of update
26130 BucketFS deletes extracted archives on node restart.
24567 Backups which originally had an expiry time cannot be used for virtual restore
22975 Object owner may not be able to view all table and column privileges via drivers' metadata functions
22104 Out-of-memory errors when using new S3 SDFS backend
13956 Generic internal server error reported instead of a session out of memory error