What's New in v20.2.12

June 28, 2021

This page lists additions and changes in v20.2.12 since version v20.2.11.

For a comprehensive summary of features in v20.2, see the v20.2 GA release notes.
To upgrade to v20.2, see Upgrade to CockroachDB v20.2.

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$ docker pull cockroachdb/cockroach:v20.2.12

Added new CHANGEFEED options that give you more control over topic naming: The full_table_name option lets you use a fully-qualified table name in topics, subjects, schemas, and record output instead of the default table name, and can prevent unintended behavior when the same table name is present in multiple databases. The avro_schema_prefix option lets you use a fully-qualified schema name for a table instead of the default table name, and makes it possible for multiple databases or clusters to share the same schema registry when the same table name is present in multiple databases. #66091
Changefeeds with custom Kafka client configurations (using the kafka_sink_config object) that could lead to long delays in flushing messages will now produce an error. #66316
The kafka_sink_config object now supports a version configuration item to specify Kafka server versions. This is likely only necessary for old (Kafka 0.11/Confluent 3.3 or earlier) Kafka servers. Additionally, settings not specified in kafka_sink_config now retain their default values. #66316

Creating STORED computed columns with expressions that reference foreign key columns is now allowed. #66169

BACKUP now puts backup data files in a data sub-directory of the BACKUP path instead of directly in the backup path. #66164

CockroachDB now prevents intra-query leaks during disk spilling that could cause the database to run out of memory, especially during disk spilling operations on tables with wide rows. #66170
Queries now use up to 1MB less actual system memory per scan, lookup join, index join, zigzag join, or inverted join in their query plans. This will result in improved memory performance for workloads with concurrent OLAP-style queries. #66170
BACKUPs no longer risk the possibility of blocking conflicting writes while being rate limited by the kv.bulk_io_write.concurrent_export_requests concurrency limit. #66409
BACKUP and other operations can now reuse a previously created S3 client session when operating on the same bucket, which can avoid NoCredentialProviders errors on EC2 when iterating with large incremental backups. #66260
Fixed a crash when performing a cluster BACKUP with revision history of a cluster upgraded from 20.1 to 20.2 to 21.1 which contains tables that were truncated by 20.1. #66638
Fixed the style of the DB Console password field on Safari. #66135

The COCKROACHDB_REGISTRY file is no longer rewritten whenever a new unencrypted file is created. #66424

This release includes 19 merged PRs by 17 authors.

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