Improvements

• Added a cleaner for BrpcStubCache to clean up unused connections. #61417
• Supports batch processing for statistics delete (for dropped tables) and Edit Log write requests. #67896
• Preserves SQL comments in Audit Logs when encryption is required. #63298
• Added the warehouse_name label to the materialized view metrics. #67715
• Improved identifier wrapping for JDBC table and column names. #67853
• Added the CLIENT_FACTORY property to the Iceberg JDBC catalog. #67613

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

• Variadic functions return wrong dates when mixing DATE and DATETIME types. #67947
• NormalizePredicateRule oscillation on non-deterministic expressions. #67923
• Low cardinality bugs with the Lambda function. #67843
• Subfield expression does not collect children subfields. #67850
• NPE in RBO Join reorder when child statistics are missing. #67693
• BE crash due to MemTable finalize failed. #67787
• Temporary partitions are not cleaned up after FE restart for dynamic overwrite. #67629
• Inaccurate I/O statistics of Compaction. #67524