Apache Drill 1.19's highlights are:
- DRILL-92 - Cassandra Storage Plugin
- DRILL-3637 - Elasticsearch Storage Plugin
- DRILL-7823 - XML Storage Plugin
- DRILL-7751 - Splunk Storage Plugin
- DRILL-5940 - Avro with schema registry support for Kafka
- DRILL-7855 - Secure mechanism for specifying storage plugin credentials
- DRILL-7921 - Linux ARM64 based system support
- DRILL-6953 - Rowset based JSON reader
- DRILL-7733 - Use streaming for REST JSON queries
- Several plugins have been converted to the Enhanced Vector Framework (EVF)
- DRILL-7525 - Convert SequenceFiles to EVF
- DRILL-7532 - Convert SysLog to EVF
- DRILL-7533 - Convert Pcapng to EVF
- DRILL-7534 - Convert HTTPD format plugin to EVF
- DRILL-7533 - Convert Image Format to EVF