Add Trino 470 release notes

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Description

Assemble the release notes for the upcoming Trino 470 release.

Additional context and related issues

See https://github.com/trinodb/trino/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A470

Release notes

(x) This is not user-visible or is docs only, and no release notes are required.

Verification for each pull request

Format: PR/issue number, ✅ / ❌ rn ✅ / ❌ docs
✅ rn - release note added and verified, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ rn before completion
✅ docs - need for docs assessed and merged, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ docs before completion

27 Jan 2025

• Remove deprecated method addColumn from JdbcClient #24802 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support MERGE for MySQL connector #24428 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove the Kinesis connector #23923 ✅ rn ✅ docs

28 Jan 2025

• Fix failure when adding columns with dots in Iceberg #24816 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update dependencies #24809 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update client libraries to JDK 11  #23639 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use newTrinoTable in more places #24806 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix null check in the array_histogram #24767 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update dependencies #24820 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Set validation to WHEN_REQUIRED for FTE exchange #24822 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Modernize client libraries a bit #24818 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove S3 legacy migration guide considerations #24825 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Cast table properties based on its type in Faker connector #24597 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add test for renameTable in Faker connector #24599 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Introduce Loki connector. #23053 ✅ rn ✅ docs, docs PR Add docs for Loki connector #24844
• Test table comment in Faker #24598 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow setting catalog type in Iceberg query runner #24832 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix Timestamp assertion test for metrics query #24833 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Minor cleanup in Loki connector #24830 ✅ rn ✅ docs

29 Jan 2025

• Inform user what are extractable date/time fields #24192 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support non-lower case variables in functions #24829 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update docs with updated Postgres version #24836 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Close StatementClient when hitting client-side timeout #24446 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add JMX metrics for S3 http client usage in native FS. #24843 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix a wrong issue link in 469 release notes #24841 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add DuckDB connector #23419 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Cleanup test schema in connector tests #24823 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use statistics in Faker CTAS #24585 ✅ rn ✅ docs, docs in Document using statistics in the Faker connector #24874
• Remove unreachable code from Exasol #24845 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix failure when equality delete updated nested fields in Iceberg #24512 ✅ rn ✅ docs

30 Jan 2025

• Remove 'LOCAL TEMPORARY' from DuckDbClient #24847 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Dependency updates #24846 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix connection leakage in native Azure filesystem #24773 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Propagate function lifecycle events to SystemSecurityMetadata #24696 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve JSON Decoders #24854 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve case insensitive matching fragment #24850 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Reenable Snowflake tests #24853 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add docs for authentication with Preview Web UI #24685 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Make number of commit retries configurable in Iceberg #24855 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Correctly categorize external errors in Iceberg REST catalog #24828 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add more tests for Loki connector #24848 ✅ rn ✅ docs

31 Jan 2025

• Add more connectors to labeler-config #24857 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support multiple state filters on getAllQueryInfo API #24462 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add workers pages to the Preview Web UI #24741 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow Hive metastore caching for Iceberg #24797 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix typo in Python docs #24865 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove deprecated precomputed hash optimizer #24792 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update dependencies (backend+frontend) #24868 ✅ rn ✅ docs

1 Feb 2025

• Deprecate support for IBM COS via Hive #24870 ✅ rn ✅ docs

2 Feb 2025

• Bump actions/stale from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 in the dependency-updates group #24800 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix Vacuum deleting files with whitespace in paths #24881 ✅ rn ✅ docs

3 Feb 2025

• Update to Airlift 301 #24883 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Return statistics for faker tables #24863 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Clarify requirements for Azure Storage file system support #24864 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow to pass step length in Loki connector #24862 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add docs for Loki connector #24844 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix error when building entries table after position or equality deletion #24780 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix code typo #24893 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix listing Glue tables with null type #24859 ❌ rn ✅ docs

4 Feb 2025

• Add support for WITH SESSION clause  #24889 ✅ rn ❌ docs
• Update cloud SDKs #24897 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Correct exchange.compression-codec documentation #24899 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Deprecate legacy GCS support via Hive #24879 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Deprecate legacy Azure storage support #24871 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Deprecate the legacy S3 storage support #24880 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve logging and add OpenMetrics docs #21089 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add optimize_manifests table procedure to Iceberg #24678 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use delegating catalog in TestIcebergRestCatalogCaseInsensitiveMapping #24895 ✅ rn ✅ docs

5 Feb 2025

• Update airlift to 302 #24906 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add support Hadoop-Compatible File System when use HDFS as exchange type #24627 ✅ rn ❌ docs, asked for a follow up PR from contributor
• Export number of fully blocked queries to JMX #24909 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Skip varchar columns when detecting dictionaries in Faker connector #24903 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Skip non-existent MBeans in JmxRecordSetProvider #24908 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Make WITH SESSION appear before FUNCTION #24902 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Rename JsonCodec used by trino client #24913 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Document using statistics in the Faker connector #24874 ✅ rn ✅ docs