This release contains backwards incompatible changes:

• Scheduled Events Executor – An event executor thread is started up by default to execute Scheduled Events.

Per Dolt’s versioning policy, this is a minor version bump because applications using previous versions of Dolt were able to create events, but they would not be executed. This release changes that behavior – when a dolt sql-server is running, created events are now executed on their defined schedule. This behavior can be disabled by starting the dolt sql-server with the --event-scheduler=OFF parameter.

Merged PRs

dolt

• 6733: Moved all environment variables relevant to a customer into a common file so we can collect and document them more easily
  This is in a new package with no other dependencies so it can be referenced anywhere without causing dependency cycles.
  Also deleted altertests, which have been disabled for over a year.
• 6702: reduce release sizes and speed up release time
  • Uses pigz instead of gzip for faster gzipping
  • Uses 7zip to create zip and 7z archives for windows (7z archive is ~49% smaller than zip archive)
  • add ldflags='-s' to go build to reduce binary size by strip (reduces
    to 89MB)
  • Upload 7z to releases
  • tested action on fork, works
    https://github.com/phanirithvij/dolt/releases/tag/v1.16.2
    If pigz seems unnecessary feel free to remove it, it works well though.

Closed Issues

• 6659: HEX(*) fails with panic
• 6691: Renaming a table breaks views using that table
• 6730: Read-Only databases should still allow calling dolt_checkout()
• 6712: unix_timestamp(date) doesn't respect a session time zone