Nessie 0.62.0 release

• 73 commits since 0.61.0
• Maven Central: https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.projectnessie+v:0.62.0
• Docker images: https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie/pkgs/container/nessie and https://quay.io/repository/projectnessie/nessie?tab=tags
  It is a multiplatform Java image (amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x): docker pull ghcr.io/projectnessie/nessie:0.62.0-java
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pynessie/0.62.0/
• Helm Chart repo: https://charts.projectnessie.org/

Try it

The attached nessie-quarkus-0.62.0-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-0.62.0/nessie-quarkus-0.62.0-runner.jar
java -jar nessie-quarkus-0.62.0-runner.jar

Nessie GC tool is attached as nessie-gc-0.62.0, which is an executable.
(chmod 744 nessie-gc-0.62.0 after download.)
Can also be run using java -jar nessie-gc-0.62.0, because it is actually a Java archive.
Shell completion can be generated from the nessie-gc tool.

The attached nessie-helm-0.62.0.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 renovate commits):

• Identify merge-base instead of common-ancestor (#7035)
• Remove code for and mentions of Delta Lake (#7108)
• Fix reference-recovery-logic (#7100)
• Fix Windows CI (#7107)
• CI: Fix newer-java CI (#7106)
• Enhance references with created-timestamp + extended-info-obj-pointer (#7088)
• BigTable follow-up (#7102)
• Refactor KeycloakTestResourceLifecycleManager (#7101)
• Tests: Only pass the surrounding test class to AbstractReferenceLogicTests (#7099)
• Ref-indexes: supply int/refs HEAD commit ID to check in reference-r… (#7095)
• Rocks: simplify checkReference (#7096)
• Inmemory: slightly change the update-ref function (#7094)
• Mongo: unify condition handling (#7093)
• Dynamo: simplify condition handling (#7092)
• Tests: Add logging to a bunch of modules (#7086)
• Add some convenience functionality to Reference (#7089)
• Nit: ImportPersistV1/2 just a static import (#7091)
• Just test refactorings, no functional change (#7090)
• Site: Add database status section (#7085)
• Store indexes: some new tests, some test/bench optimizations (#7066)
• Testing: Remove unnecessary ITCockroachDBCachingPersist (#7087)
• Fix Newer-Java + Mac/Win CI (#7058)
• Micro-optimization of LazyIndexImpl.get() (#7059)
• Bump Scala 2.12/2.13 patch versions (#7060)
• CommitLogic: add fetchCommits for 2 IDs (#7055)
• Enable token exchange flow in authn docker-compose example (#7057)
• Make number of access checks configurable (#7056)
• Fix nit in TypeMapping (#7054)
• UI: Properly "wire" compileAll + checkstyle helper tasks (#7042)
• Add BigTable as a version-store type (#6846)
• nessie-rest-services back to 8 (#7049)
• Fetch names references: replace fetchReference-per-ref w/ bulk-fetch (#7046)
• Extract CommitMetaUpdater class, fix "set authors on merge" (#7039)
• New storage/references logic: prevent one database read (#7045)
• More enhancements to docker-compose files (#7047)
• CI: Do not trigger on push to feature/** branches (#7044)
• CI: Split "Code Checks" job's main step (#7041)
• Minor fixes to Keycloak docs and docker-compose file (#7036)
• BatchAccessChecker: distinguish UPDATE and CREATE for commited values (#7028)
• Build/nit: simplify version catalog usage (#7032)
• CI: Give "Newer Java" runs more memory (#7031)
• CI: Support feature/** branches (#7030)