Materialize/doc/user/content/releases/v0.71.md

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title: "Materialize v0.71" date: 2023-10-04

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v0.71.0

[//]: # "NOTE(morsapaes) v0.71 shipped setting configuration parameters for roles behind a feature flag."

Sources and sinks

• Support using the new NULL DEFAULTS option in Avro-formatted Kafka sinks. When specified, this option will generate an Avro schema where every nullable field has a default of NULL.

SQL

• Add the EXPLAIN CREATE { MATERIALIZED VIEW | INDEX } syntax options, which allow exploring what plan Materialize would create if one were to re-create the object with the current catalog state.