Weekly update in TiDB

Last week, we landed 48 PRs in the TiDB repository.

Added

• Add the CFB mode for the AES encryption
• Implement the basic CreateView feature
• Add the HTTP API to query hot tables/indexes

Improved

• Make Admin Check Table only check the public index
• Handle non-BMP characters in the UTF-8 charset
• Specify the sort order for the columns in the physical property
• Refactor error handling of transactions
• Close all connections directly when terminating TiDB
• Ignore the unknown hint and return a warning
• Support specifying the ending of a range to be scanned
• Add the extra information message to be sent to the MySQL client

Fixed

• Fix the wrong output of Show Master Status
• Fix the incorrect result related to the Duration columns
• Fix the compatibility problem of renaming tables
• Correct the column name with the unary plus sign
• Handle corner cases for auto_increment columns

Weekly update in TiKV and PD

Last week, we landed 29 PRs in the TiKV and PD repositories.

Added

• Add lpad and lpad_binary built-in functions
• Add add_datetime_and_duration, add_datetime_and_string and add_time_datetime_null built-in functions
• Add an HTTP port for Prometheus
• Introduce the Raftstore router

Improved

• Check overlapped Regions for the new Region
• Remove the disturbing log when the store is tombstone

Fixed

• Fix the possible panic issue caused by Approximate Size Split
• Fix a bug about Region merge in the case of multiple snapshots

New contributors (Thanks!)

tidb-operator:

• queenliuxx

tidb:

• cuining
• kjzz

parser:

• TennyZhuang
• caohe
• exialin
• hanchuanchuan
• honestold3
• kangkaisen
• knarfeh
• tony612