YDB CLI changelog

Version 2.3.0

Released on May 5, 2023. To update to version 2.3.0, select the Downloads section.

What's new:

  • Added interactive query execution mode. It can be launched using ydb yql command without arguments. This mode is experimental and is a subject to change.
  • Added ydb table index rename command for atomic secondary index replacement or renaming.
  • Added ydb workload topic command section that allows to run a workload of writes and reads to topics.
  • Added --recursive option for ydb scheme rmdir command that allows to remove a directory recursively with all its content.
  • Added topic and coordination node support for ydb scheme describe command.
  • Added --commit option for ydb topic consumer command to commit offset for consumer.
  • Added --columns option for ydb import file csv|tsv command to list column names in, instead of placing it into file header.
  • Added --newline-delimited option for ydb import file csv|tsv command that confirms that there is no newline characters inside records which allows to read from several sections of a file simultaneously.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused executing the ydb import file command to consume too much memory and CPU.

Version 2.2.0

Released on March 3, 2023. To update to version 2.2.0, select the Downloads section.

What's new:

  • Fixed the error that didn't allow specifying supported compression algorithms when adding a topic consumer.
  • Added support for streaming YQL scripts and queries based on parameters transferred via stdin.
  • YQL query parameter values can now be transferred from a file.
  • Password input requests are now output to stderr instead of stdout.
  • You can now save the root CA certificate path in a profile.
  • Added a global parameter named --profile-file to use the specified file as storage for profile settings.
  • Added a new type of load testing: ydb workload clickbench.

Version 2.1.1

Released on December 30, 2022. To update to version 2.1.1, select the Downloads section.

Improvements:

  • Added support for the --stats parameter of the ydb scheme describe command for column-oriented tables.
  • Added support for Parquet files to enable their import with the ydb import command.
  • Added support for additional logging and retries for the ydb import command.

Version 2.1.0

Released on November 18, 2022. To update to version 2.1.0, select the Downloads section.

What's new:

  • You can now create a profile non-interactively.
  • Added the ydb config profile update and ydb config profile replace commands to update and replace profiles, respectively.
  • Added the -1 parameter for the ydb scheme ls command to enable output of a single object per row.
  • You can now save the IAM service URL in a profile.
  • Added support for username and password-based authentication without specifying the password.
  • Added support for AWS profiles in the ydb export s3 command.
  • You can now create profiles using stdin. For example, you can pass the YC CLI yc ydb database get information command output to the ydb config profile create command input.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed the error when request results were output in JSON-array format incorrectly if they included multiple server responses.
  • Fixed the error that disabled profile updates so that an incorrect profile was used.

Version 2.0.0

Released on September 20, 2022. To update to version 2.0.0, select the Downloads section.

What's new:

  • Added the ability to work with topics:

    • ydb topic create: Create a topic.
    • ydb topic alter: Update a topic.
    • ydb topic write: Write data to a topic.
    • ydb topic read: Read data from a topic.
    • ydb topic drop: Delete a topic.

  • Added a new type of load testing:

    • ydb workload kv init: Create a table for kv load testing.
    • ydb workload kv run: Apply one of three types of load: run multiple UPSERT sessions, run multiple INSERT sessions, or run multiple sessions of GET requests by primary key.
    • ydb workload kv clean: Delete a test table.

  • Added the ability to disable current active profile (see the ydb config profile deactivate command).

  • Added the ability to delete a profile non-interactively with no commit (see the --force parameter under the ydb config profile remove command).

  • Added CDC support for the ydb scheme describe command.

  • Added the ability to view the current DB status (see the ydb monitoring healthcheck command).

  • Added the ability to view authentication information (token) to be sent with DB queries under the current authentication settings (see the ydb auth get-token command).

  • Added the ability for the ydb import command to read data from stdin.

  • Added the ability to import data in JSON format from a file or stdin (see the ydb import file json command).

Improvements:

  • Improved command processing. Improved the accuracy of user input parsing and validation.

Version 1.9.1

Released on June 25, 2022. To update to version 1.9.1, select the Downloads section.

What's new:

  • Added the ability to compress data when exporting it to S3-compatible storage (see the --compression parameter of the ydb export s3 command).
  • Added the ability to manage new YDB CLI version availability auto checks (see the --disable-checks and --enable-checks parameters of the ydb version command).
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