Nessie 0.26.0

Highlights

• 62 commits since 0.25.0
• Remove global state for Iceberg tables + views
• Internal optimizations in database adapters, version store and API endpoints
• Change 'marker' character to indicate . in namespace/table identifiers from ASCII 0 to \u001D
• Opt-in to force-merge or not merge specific content keys (also for transplant)
• Squash merged and transplanted commits by default (with opt-out)
• Maven Central: https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.projectnessie
• Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/projectnessie/nessie
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pynessie/
• Helm Chart repo: https://charts.projectnessie.org/

Upgrade notes

Rolling upgrades from an older Nessie release to 0.26.0 or newer are not supported.

Try it

The attached executable file nessie-quarkus-0.26.0-runner is a x86-64 native binary image and only works on compatible Linux environments.

The attached nessie-quarkus-0.26.0-runner.jar is a standalone uber-jar file that runs on Java 11 or newer and it is also available via Maven Central. Download and run it (requires Java 11):

wget https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie/releases/download/nessie-0.26.0/nessie-quarkus-0.26.0-runner.jar
java -jar nessie-quarkus-0.26.0-runner.jar

The attached nessie-helm-0.26.0.tgz is a packaged Helm chart, which can be downloaded and installed via Helm.
There is also the Nessie Helm chart repo, which can be added and used to install the Nessie Helm chart.

Full Changelog (minus dependabot commits):

• Prepare Nessie 0.26.0 (#3925)
• Remove global state for Iceberg tables + views (#3866)
• Simplification: Use Namespace instead of NamespaceParams in NamespaceApi methods (#3910)
• Let StoreWorker pull global-state (#3908)
• Do not write empty global-log-entries (#3909)
• Compare Namespaces based on their canonical elements (#3894)
• Rename internal packages, avoid package name shared across artifacts (#3906)
• Adopt release-workflow to new dependabot-automerge commit status (#3905)
• Fix potential ui/ build issue with diasbled terser-plugin (#3895)
• Use group separator (u001D) character instead of zero byte for Namespace/ContentKey (#3850)
• CI: Add information to dependabot-automerge WF (#3892)
• Properly remove ContentVariantSupplier (#3893)
• Run unit tests in selected modules concurrently (#3847)
• CI: Capture test reports only on failure (#3877)
• Remove ContentVariantSupplier + replace with StoreWorker (#3882)
• Test: use correct content value type (#3883)
• CI: Automatically approve + merge dependabot PRs (#3880)
• Speed up ui/ build (locally) (#3879)
• Bump Quarkus from 2.7.5 to 2.8.0 (#3881)
• GC/Test: use correct store worker (#3878)
• CI: Only add more swap space for WFs that need it (#3875)
• Add parameters for content-keys to "drop" and "force" during merge (#3834)
• Remove unused code (#3865)
• Squash merge (#3813)
• Do not build GC with -Dquickly (#3864)