We are excited to announce the release of Delta Sharing 0.2.0, which introduces the following improvements and fixes multiple issues:

Improvements:

• Added official Docker images for Delta Sharing Server
• Added an examples project to show how to try the open Delta Sharing Server (#26)
• Added the conf directory to the Delta Sharing Server classpath to allow users to add their Hadoop configuration files in the directory (#45)
• Added retry with exponential backoff for REST requests in the Python connector (#49)

Bug fixes:

• Added the minimum fsspec requirement in the Python connector (#23)
• Fixed an issue when files in a table have no stats in the Python connector (#30)
• Improve error handling in Delta Sharing Server to report 400 Bad Request properly (#32)
• Fixed the table schema when a table is empty in the Python connector (#37)
• Fixed KeyError when there are no shared tables in the Python connector (#50)

Credits: Denny Lee, Matei Zaharia, Shixiong Zhu, Yaohua, Yuhong Chen, dobachi