StarRocks Files

Release Date: July 10, 2025

Improvements

• Enhanced observability of loading job execution: Unified the runtime information of loading tasks into the information_schema.loads view. Users can view the execution details of all INSERT, Broker Load, Stream Load, and Routine Load subtasks in this view. Additional fields have been added to help users better understand the status of loading tasks and the association with parent jobs (PIPES, Routine Load Jobs).
• Support modifying kafka_broker_list via the ALTER ROUTINE LOAD statement.

Bug Fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

• Under high-frequency loading scenarios, Compaction could be delayed. #59998
• Querying Iceberg external tables via Unified Catalog would throw an error: not support getting unified metadata table factory. #59412
• When using DESC FILES() to view CSV files in remote storage, incorrect results were returned because the system mistakenly inferred xinf as the FLOAT type. #59574
• INSERT INTO could cause BE to crash when encountering empty partitions. #59553
• When StarRocks reads Equality Delete files in Iceberg, it could still access deleted data if the data had already been removed from the Iceberg table. #59709
• Query failures caused by renaming columns. #59178

Behavior Changes

• The default value of the BE configuration item skip_pk_preload has been changed from false to true. As a result, the system will skip preloading Primary Key Indexes for Primary Key tables to reduce the likelihood of Reached Timeout errors. This change may increase query latency for operations that require loading Primary Key Indexes.