2.4.1

New Feature

• Supports non-equi joins - LEFT SEMI JOIN and ANTI JOIN. Optimized the JOIN function. #13019

Improvements

• Supports property aliveStatus in HeartbeatResponse. aliveStatus indicates if a node is alive in the cluster. Mechanisms that judge the aliveStatus are further optimized. #12713

• Optimized the error message of Routine Load. #12155

Bug Fixes

• BE crashes after being upgraded from v2.4.0RC to v2.4.0. #13128

• Late materialization causes incorrect results to queries on data lakes. #13133

• The get_json_int function throws exceptions. #12997

• Data may be inconsistent after deletion from a PRIMARY KEY table with a persistent index.#12719

• BE may crash during compaction on a PRIMARY KEY table. #12914

• The json_object function returns incorrect results when its input contains an empty string. #13030

• BE crashes due to RuntimeFilter. #12807

• FE hangs due to excessive recursive computations in CBO. #12788

• BE may crash or report an error when exiting gracefully. #12852

• Compaction crashes after data is deleted from a table with new columns added to it. #12907

• Data may be inconsistent due to incorrect mechanisms in OLAP external table metadata synchronization. #12368

• When one BE crashes, the other BEs may execute relevant queries till timeout. #12954

Behavior Change

• When parsing Hive external table fails, StarRocks throws error messages instead of converting relevant columns into NULL columns. #12382