Presto Community Newsletter January 2024
January 2024
Happy new year Presto community! 🎉 We’re so excited for what’s in store for 2024. Read more to learn about our newest Presto 0.285 release, a Presto Helm Chart release, and upcoming community events. As always, join us in the Presto community slack channel to connect with the community 👍
Upcoming Presto and community events 📅
Want to speak at an upcoming Presto meetup or industry conference?
Submit a community CFP 💙
January 31st: Presto Virtual Meetup — Presto 0.285 | Introducing the new Presto JS client
Learn more about our newest release, and take a dive into the new Presto JS client built by Bhuma.dev. RSVP now
February 7th: Hands-on Virtual Workshop — Getting Started with Presto
We’re kicking off our free virtual workshop series to help you get started with Presto! Join us for our first one where you’ll learn the basics of Presto. Get Presto running locally, connect data sources, and run some queries. Register to save your seat.
New releases ⭐
Presto 0.285 release
We’re happy to share our latest Presto 0.285 release which includes updates to the Iceberg/Presto connector and others.
Notable Iceberg updates:
- Support for reading and writing Iceberg distinct values
- Support for deleting from Iceberg tables where the filter matches partitions (full delete support is almost done)
- Support for AWS glue in Iceberg
- Support for views
Other highlights:
- Added a SAP HANA connector
- improvements for history-based optimizer, including HBO-informed partial aggregation, and overall improvements to its performance
- Support for writing Parquet V1 and V2
See the full release notes.
Presto Helm Chart 0.2.0 release
The new version of the official Helm chart for Presto has been released. Notable updates include:
- Support for existing ServiceAccount
- Update to Presto Foundation docker image
- Add metrics endpoint configuration
- Upgrade default Presto version to 0.285.1
Join a Presto working group 💼
Want to contribute to a specific area of Presto? Join one of our working groups and start collaborating with other Presto users and maintainers:
The Presto Foundation public calendar is the best place to see all of the working group and community meetings!
