Highlights

• 236 commits since 0.3.0
• rename base package to org.projectnessie
• NessieClient is now an interface and some easier builders
• initial implementation of GC algorithm
• major refactor of tiered classes for better modularity and extensibility
• observability improvements including better DynamoDB metrics and opentracing support for the client
• 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/

Full Changelog (minus dependabot commits):

• [release] prepare release nessie-0.4.0 (#924)
• Configurable log-level for tests (#910)
• Change DynamoDB default billing mode (#916)
• Update expression visitor (#894)
• Allow a little bit of SubstrateVM inspection (#914)
• Tweak logging and don't log HTTP accesses to the console (#913)
• Close Streams to allow proper tracing+metrics (#909)
• Bit more verbose error messages (#911)
• Start version-store when Quarkus app starts (#912)
• Refactor Quarkus version store configuration (#893)
• JAX-RS server cleanup (#888)
• New module for TableCommitMetaStoreWorker (#895)
• Better modularity in GC (#843)
• Create SECURITY.md (#876)
• Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (#875)
• Create CONTRIBUTING.md (#870)
• Delete SECURITY.md
• Create SECURITY.md
• Add tracing to our http-client, make NessieClient an interface (#835)
• Use Quarkus BOM version of MongoDB (#850)
• remove unused transient dependency (#848)
• Remove unused "backends-type" stuff from ApplicationConfig (#833)
• Fix config application.properties to match name in ApplicationConfig.java (#832)
• Report proper exception message, telling the user what actually happened (#826)
• Handle errors during (Version)Store initialization in Quarkus (#825)
• Fix concurrent commits against same branch fail (#820)
• changes to gc algo in prep for iceberg (#811)
• Respect DynamoDB limit of max 25 requests per batch-write (#798)
• add system props config to app runner (#802)
• Rename com.dremio.nessie package to org.projectnessie (#810)
• Add additional base store tests to AbstractTestStore. (#796)
• Add ConditionExpression and UpdateExpression visitors (#741)
• Only log stacktrace for "final" updatedBranch.getUpdateState(store).ensureAvailable with DEBUG logging (#797)
• Fix property name for table-prefix in application.properties (#795)
• Use initialState in InternalBranch.collapseIntentionLog (#794)
• Update to Checkstyle 8.40 (#787)
• Add metrics and tracing to dynamo store (#755)
• for / with typo (#773)
• Fix passing file.encoding system property + update maven-failsafe-plugin as well (#767)
• API call-order constraints for Ref-tag/branch + BranchCommit-(un)saved (#700)
• re-enable tests (#758)
• Fix perftest (#754)
• Make build+test use en/US (#751)
• Add test ensuring that assets of dangling values within slop time are considered referenced (#740)
• Update nessie-iceberg-demo.ipynb (#735)
• Add "About Nessie" for humans (#599)
• clarify language for Nessie/Iceberg jar (#730)
• fix references to iceberg (#719)
• remove iceberg client and update docs to reflect release 0.11.0 from iceberg project (#713)
• Implement Garbage Collection Algorithm (#684)
• Introduce DT Field and refactor Asset Key Interface (#701)
• Upper-case + ImmutableMap (#699)
• Move tiered modules to a tiered subdirectory. (#690)
• Remove Consumer suffix from external ValueType value classes (and ren… (#689)
• Consumer-pattern for stores (#615)
• Fix site/README.md to mention venv, add venv to top-level .gitignore (#659)
• Exclude pentaho-aggdesigner-algorithm (#671)
• Mongo load support (#545)
• [release] prepare for next development iteration