New Features & Improvements

Index & Search

• Support MATCH projection as virtual column for inverted index (#61092)
• Add PrefixQuery, PhrasePrefixQuery, and UnionPostings support (#60701)
• Support BM25 scoring in inverted index queries (#59847)
• Implement phrase-level BM25 scoring with phrase frequency (#60331)
• Change default search mode from standard to lucene (#61055)

Security & Authentication

• Add LDAPS support via configuration (#60275)
• Enhance Azure object storage client certificate troubleshooting (#61102)

Bugfix

Query & Execution

• Fix query cache inconsistency with variant subcolumns (#61709)
• Fix MATCH crash on alias slots (#61584)
• Fix set operation crash when data size exceeds 4GB (#61471)
• Fix TopN filter issues with nullable slots across outer joins (#59074)
• Fix incorrect MV functional dependency calculation (#59933)
• Fix type coercion issues in SUM and AVG (#59602)

Functions & Types

• Add support for NDV on decimalv2 (#61546)
• Fix incorrect ABS result for decimalv2 (#61397)
• Fix LARGEINT handling in array_apply (#61081)

Storage & Compaction

• Fix stale rowset commit issues (#61427)
• Fix compaction timeout calculation errors (#61188)
• Fix segment corruption not triggering cache retry (#61386)
• Fix move-memtable related stream write errors (#60688)

Index & Search

• Fix deterministic reader selection for multi-index columns (#61596)
• Fix search query parsing issues with special characters (#61599)
• Fix MUST_NOT handling with NULL rows (#61200)
• Fix inverted index overflow issue (#61120)

Load & Streaming

• Fix load memory regression (#61327)
• Fix streaming job stuck due to ignored S3 auth errors (#61284)
• Fix streaming job scheduling issues (#61249)
• Fix streaming insert replay NPE (#61253)
• Fix routine load job incorrectly cancelled after FE restart (#61046)
• Fix streaming job config not refreshed after ALTER (#61451)

Cloud & External Systems

• Fix empty rowset handling in batch delete (#60919)
• Reject invalid admin operations in cloud mode (#60875)
• Fix RPC metric naming issues (#60745)
• Fix Iceberg table read and rewrite failures (#59984, #61112)
• Fix ES query issues with array keyword fields (#61236)

File Cache & IO

• Fix file cache concurrency crash (#60271)
• Fix empty block file handling (#59646)

Metadata & Job System

• Fix job scheduling and execution issues (#61467, #61284)
• Fix backup snapshot upload on invalid storage paths (#61251)

Security & Auth

• Fix LDAP injection vulnerability by proper escaping (#61662)
• Fix password lock failure after invalid login (#61592)
• Restrict catalog privilege checks to valid operations (#61147)

Stability & Misc

• Fix FlushToken counter inconsistency (#61684)
• Fix profile metrics inaccuracies (#61064, #61601)
• Fix timezone-related issues (#61151)
• Fix ORC heap-use-after-free crash (#61138)
• Fix frontend TVF metadata inconsistency (#61087)
• Fix insert overwrite behavior (#61082)
• Fix local shuffle strategy (#61057)
• Fix scan node missing column size metrics (#61086)