v0.5.0·UnityCatalog 0.5.0
Summary
UC 0.5.0 introduces a dedicated UC Delta API for catalog-managed Delta table operations across Spark, Flink, Trino, DuckDB, and other engines, with standardized REST endpoints and server-side commit validation. The Spark connector now ships separate artifacts for Spark 4.0 and 4.1 and enables credential-scoped file systems by default, fixing out-of-memory issues in long-running sessions.
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