Version 8.29.11 Release Notes

Release date: 2025-07-16

This list provides an overview of all changes in version 8.29.11.

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Changed behavior

Changelog entry Changed behavior
24938 The database port check will now be done when starting a database (db_start) and not when creating (db_create) or configuring (db_configure) a database.
21564 EXA_STATISTICS.EXA_DB_SIZE_DAILY and EXA_STATISTICS.EXA_DB_SIZE_HOURLY tables have for columns OBJECT_COUNT_AVG and OBJECT_COUNT_MAX changed data type from DECIMAL(6,0) to DECIMAL(9,0). EXA_STATISTICS.OBJECT_COUNT table has for column OBJECT_COUNT changed data type from DECIMAL(6,0) to DECIMAL(9,0). EXA_STATISTICS.EXA_DB_SIZE_DAILY and EXA_STATISTICS.EXA_DB_SIZE_HOURLY tables have for columns OBJECT_COUNT_AVG and OBJECT_COUNT_MAX changed data type from DECIMAL(6,0) to DECIMAL(9,0). EXA_STATISTICS.EXA_DB_SIZE_MONTHLY has for columns OBJECT_COUNT_AVG and OBJECT_COUNT_MAX changed data type from DECIMAL(6,0) to DECIMAL(9,0).

New features

Changelog entry Summary
24203 New option to force S3 SDFS backend

Improvements

Changelog entry Summary
25398 Disable CBC cipher suites on port 4444
25229 Raise an error about the uid/gid mapping range earlier

Bug fixes

Changelog entry Summary
25606 Running UDF scripts are affected by log rotation
25202 Fixes a rare race condition in the monitoring system
25137 Sessions may crash when writing 16-byte HASHTYPE data to clients
24952 Can't change a database's data volume using db_configure ConfD job.
24938 Allow multiple databases share the same port
24860 Repaired confd_client jobs: st_node_set_bg_recovery_limit, st_node_set_space_warn_threshold, st_device_modify
24855 Fixed new node additions in rootless
24799 Filter on System Tables in Snapshot Mode may cause Data Exception
24284 Auto scaling: A shutdown worker cluster may cause the database to become unreachable
23120 EXA_*_PROFILE_RUNNING fails due to invalid TEMP_DB_RAM_PEAK
21688 Fix c4 not finding the Exasol archive when adding a new node
21564 Change in data type of object count columns in statistics schema
21052 Unnecessary index rebuilds in UNION ALL
20721 Virtual restore cannot be performed for large amounts of data
17434 Rare error in garbage collection
16195 Database restarts unexpectedly
15266 EXA_DBA_PROFILE_RUNNING returns exception for long-running queries