starrocks

4.0.12

Release Date: June 25, 2026

Behavior Changes

• When reading INT64 timestamps from Parquet files written with isAdjustedToUTC=false (timezone-naive), SELECT FROM FILES() and broker/stream LOAD no longer shift the values by the session timezone offset. Such timestamps are now read as wall-clock values, consistent with Trino, Spark, and Impala. Previously the values drifted whenever the session timezone was not UTC. #73674
• CTAS (CREATE TABLE AS SELECT) now preserves the declared VARCHAR(N) length when the source carries an explicit user length (a catalog column reference, CAST AS VARCHAR(N), or a string literal), instead of widening it to VARCHAR(1048576). This keeps the length constraint enforceable and aligns DDL with dbt schema contracts. Materialized view materialization still widens columns as before. #73498
• The Paimon connector now respects the session variable connector_max_split_size when calculating scan splits, instead of always using the default value, so tuning it now affects Paimon scan parallelism. #71756

Improvements

• Optimized base64_to_bitmap by folding the conversion at constant-evaluation time for constant inputs. #74684
• ngram_search now supports a non-constant needle (the search term can be a column expression rather than only a constant). #74675
• The Arrow-to-JSON converter now supports LARGE_LIST and FIXED_SIZE_LIST types. #73714
• Added an opt-in option to isolate wide-string columns during statistics collection to reduce memory pressure. #73258
• information_schema.COLUMNS now populates the DATETIME_PRECISION field. #74623
• Relaxed database read locks to table-scoped intensive locks in InformationSchemaDataSource and FrontendServiceImpl to improve concurrency. #73936 #73913
• Narrowed database write locks to table-scoped intensive write locks for shared-nothing clusters, and scoped replica row-count updates to the table lock. #74523 #74521
• Moved the routine-load broker RPC out of the per-job write lock to reduce contention. #73591
• Deferred JDBC REMARKS fetching out of the getTable() hot path to speed up metadata access for JDBC catalogs. #73488
• Pushed down the table_name predicate for information_schema.tables_config queries. #73210
• Skipped per-replica scans on single-medium BEs in BackendLoadStatistic. #73555
• Added a write timeout to the MySQL channel result send path to prevent stuck connections. #73646
• Added catalog recycle bin size gauge metrics. #74440
• Added vacuum batch-size and retry-count metrics, and added decorrelated jitter to the lake vacuum retry backoff to reduce retry storms. #74112 #74108
• Upgraded third-party dependencies to address security vulnerabilities (CVE): Netty to 4.1.135.Final, Tomcat to 9.0.118, and Thrift to 0.23.0. #74668 #73797 #73625

Bug Fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

• Successfully committed multi-statement transaction stream loads were shown as PREPARING forever in information_schema.loads and SHOW STREAM LOAD. #74386
• Rows were silently dropped from information_schema.loads on clusters whose session timezone differs from Asia/Shanghai, because load times were exchanged as naive wall-clock strings across the BE/FE thrift boundary. #73365
• The COMMIT of an explicit transaction waited only query_timeout milliseconds (instead of seconds) for the database write lock due to a unit mismatch. #73549
• current_timestamp / now() column defaults were displayed as a frozen literal after ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN and could be lost across FE restarts or edit-log replay. #73455
• Querying sys.fe_memory_usage / sys.fe_locks without the OPERATE ON SYSTEM privilege returned a misleading RPC-failure message instead of a clear access-denied error. #73567
• Automatic per-key Hive partition stats refresh could overload the Hive Metastore for tables with many partitions. #73563
• A null-pointer issue when reading the GTID during a schema change. #74855
• An empty analytic operator was not pruned after pushing down a distinct aggregation. #74810
• Zero row counts could corrupt partition statistics. #74801
• Vector index rewrite could pollute the shared table schema. #74785
• An IllegalStateException during parallel profile collection, fixed by making Tracers fork-aware. #74746
• BE vacuum tasks were not aborted once the FE caller's timeout elapsed. #74694
• Partition consumer errors in ChunksPartitioner were lost instead of being propagated. #74693
• A lock mismatch in blockingAddTabletCtxToScheduler. #74596
• A typo in the azure_adls2_oauth2_client_endpoint configuration field name. #74581
• Pipeline observers were not notified on missed operator state transitions. #74557
• The reported vacuum watermark was incorrect when retain-boundary metadata was gone. #74429
• A data race on MaterializedIndexMeta during updateSchemaBackendId. #74412
• A non-primary-key replica could get stuck with a permanent version hole; it now self-heals. #74408
• A use-after-free of LLVMContext when JIT compilation fails. #74396
• A column mismatch in the missing-replica row of ADMIN SHOW REPLICA STATUS. #74393
• Invalid JIT IR generated for CASE WHEN with mixed float/int WHEN and result types. #74382
• The CatalogRecycleBin was frozen when a cluster snapshot kept failing. #74379
• A partial update targeting a table modified earlier in the same explicit transaction is now rejected with a clear error. #74344
• Immutable-partition updates did not use the transaction's compute resource. #74316
• A potential out-of-bounds error caused by partitioned join. #74315
• Database-level UDFs were not restored to the renamed target database for FE followers. #74313
• Non-root compound predicates yielded EOF instead of NotPushDown. #74218
• Table names were not backquoted when persisting the routine load origStmt. #74188
• An assertion name lookup error in assert-num-rows. #74178
• Aggregation used type-mismatched aggregate functions. #74159
• Force-killed task runs were not archived, and session-prefixed task-run timeouts were not honored. #74146
• RENAME and SWAP (for tables and materialized views) now take the database write lock to avoid concurrent-modification issues. #74100
• Composite-rowset stats were not summed when batching op_writes in primary-key multi-statement transactions. #74059
• The sink was not notified when a distinct aggregate source finished. #74055
• pipe_file_list was not recreated when _statistics_ was dropped. #73970
• A crash in TabletInvertedIndex.deleteTablets, fixed by fast-path skipping empty input. #73955
• The task manager could write an illegal edit log for a task run. #73882
• A set_thread_name race on data directory load threads. #73862
• A race condition in TabletSinkSender::_send_chunk_by_node. #73820
• Incorrect memory accounting in OlapTableSink. #73807
• Incorrect connector bytes-read statistics. #73799
• BACKUP ON (ALL FUNCTION) / (ALL EXTERNAL CATALOGS) failures. #73790
• NullableColumnUnaryFunction lost the decimal scale when all values were null. #73789
• A FlatJSON crash when subwriters had no appends. #73730
• LargeList / FixedSizeList could not be converted to a JSON column during broker load. #73718
• Partial-append of nested types failed during JSON load. #73715
• An NPE in StatisticsCalcUtils when a partition is dropped concurrently. #73711
• Decimal-valued unit counters were not parsed in RuntimeProfileParser. #73683
• An NPE during nested materialized view refresh. #73644
• Multi-statement transactions were not handled correctly in lake publish_log_version. #73423
• An empty ALTER TABLE clause is now rejected, and OPTIMIZE replay was improved. #73352
• Disk cache overflow when Iceberg metadata entries are pinned. #71651