Gravitino 0.6.1-incubating

We are pleased to announce the stable release of Gravitino 0.6.1-incubating, based on branch-0.6. This release brings a suite of new features and enhancements, particularly focusing on the unified access control system. Additionally, it includes various bug fixes and optimizations across other components.

Security

• Supports list users #3348
• Supports list roles #3346
• Supports list roles by object #4886
• Supports list group #4873
• Supports grant or revoke privileges for a role #4903
• Improved security with additional checks for privilege APIs #5054 #5070
• Fix Hive metastore authentication failed when creating a role #4960
• Remove role local cache #4246
• Addressed a response error in Ranger when calling the Ranger CREATE_GROUP API #4975

Gravitino Core

• Fixed an issue with updating comments in metalake or catalog operations #4845
• Introduced a basic framework to support multiple JDBC backends #4832 #4868
• Fixed a cleanup bug occurring after failed catalog creation attempts #5082

Tag

• Transitioned Tag REST APIs to Object path for improved management #5000

Catalogs

Iceberg

• Use unified logic to transform catalog backend name to handle the renaming of catalog #4718

Doris

• Fix the missing distribution information when loading Doris tables #4988

Trino Connector

• Corrected the default precision settings for Time and Timestamp column types in the Iceberg catalog #4743

UI

• Supports creating Paimon catalog #4742
• Improved user experience by showing an expand arrow when reloading tree nodes #5042

Build and Others

• Fix the env of openAPI lint plugin #4876
• Addressed an Out Of Memory (OOM) issue during Trino connector tests #4871
• Resolved a test failure in testCheckLinkDocs for the web module #4914
• Increase the Python timeout minutes to 45 minutes #5038
• Ensured that TestHiveTableOperations can be run independently #4851
• Added LICENSE and NOTICE files for the Iceberg REST binary to comply with licensing requirements #5010

Limitations and Known Issues

• Please be aware that the Ranger authorization plugin within the unified access control system may exhibit some limitations and known issues. For detailed information, refer to issue #5115.

Credits

We would like to thank the following contributors for their valuable contributions to this release:

@diqiu50 @FANNG1 @jerqi @jerryshao @justinmclean @LauraXia123 @LindaSummer @LiuQhahah @lsyulong @lw-yang @mchades @tyoushinya @yangyuxia @yuqi1129