v4.0.1·Delta Lake 4.0.1
Summary
Delta Lake 4.0.1 introduces a breaking change renaming catalogOwned-preview to catalogManaged, adds Unity Catalog OAuth with automatic token refresh, and enables UC-managed Delta table creation. It also fixes a Spark 4.0.1 compatibility issue causing NoSuchMethodError in REORG TABLE APPLY (PURGE).
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