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### ClickHouse release v22.1, 2022-01-18. [Presentation](https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2022-release-22.1/), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP7I2SUBXig)[​](#a-id221a-clickhouse-release-v221-2022-01-18 "Direct link to a-id221a-clickhouse-release-v221-2022-01-18")

#### Upgrade Notes[​](#upgrade-notes-4 "Direct link to Upgrade Notes")

- The functions `left` and `right` were previously implemented in parser and now full-featured. Distributed queries with `left` or `right` functions without aliases may throw exception if cluster contains different versions of clickhouse-server. If you are upgrading your cluster and encounter this error, you should finish upgrading your cluster to ensure all nodes have the same version. Also you can add aliases (`AS something`) to the columns in your queries to avoid this issue. [#33407](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33407) ([alexey-milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Resource usage by scalar subqueries is fully accounted since this version. With this change, rows read in scalar subqueries are now reported in the query\_log. If the scalar subquery is cached (repeated or called for several rows) the rows read are only counted once. This change allows KILLing queries and reporting progress while they are executing scalar subqueries. [#32271](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/32271) ([Raúl Marín](https://github.com/Algunenano)).

#### New Feature[​](#new-feature-11 "Direct link to New Feature")

- Implement data schema inference for input formats. Allow to skip structure (or write just `auto`) in table functions `file`, `url`, `s3`, `hdfs` and in parameters of `clickhouse-local` . Allow to skip structure in create query for table engines `File`, `HDFS`, `S3`, `URL`, `Merge`, `Buffer`, `Distributed` and `ReplicatedMergeTree` (if we add new replicas). [#32455](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/32455) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)).
- Detect format by file extension in `file`/`hdfs`/`s3`/`url` table functions and `HDFS`/`S3`/`URL` table engines and also for `SELECT INTO OUTFILE` and `INSERT FROM INFILE` [#33565](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33565) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)). Close [#30918](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/30918). [#33443](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33443) ([OnePiece](https://github.com/zhongyuankai)).
- A tool for collecting diagnostics data if you need support. [#33175](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33175) ([Alexander Burmak](https://github.com/Alex-Burmak)).
- Automatic cluster discovery via Zoo/Keeper. It allows to add replicas to the cluster without changing configuration on every server. [#31442](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/31442) ([vdimir](https://github.com/vdimir)).
- Implement hive table engine to access apache hive from clickhouse. This implements: [#29245](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29245). [#31104](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/31104) ([taiyang-li](https://github.com/taiyang-li)).
- Add aggregate functions `cramersV`, `cramersVBiasCorrected`, `theilsU` and `contingency`. These functions calculate dependency (measure of association) between categorical values. All these functions are using cross-tab (histogram on pairs) for implementation. You can imagine it like a correlation coefficient but for any discrete values (not necessary numbers). [#33366](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33366) ([alexey-milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)). Initial implementation by [Vanyok-All-is-OK](https://github.com/Vanyok-All-is-OK) and [antikvist](https://github.com/antikvist).
- Added table function `hdfsCluster` which allows processing files from HDFS in parallel from many nodes in a specified cluster, similarly to `s3Cluster`. [#32400](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/32400) ([Zhichang Yu](https://github.com/yuzhichang)).
- Adding support for disks backed by Azure Blob Storage, in a similar way it has been done for disks backed by AWS S3. [#31505](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/31505) ([Jakub Kuklis](https://github.com/jkuklis)).
- Allow `COMMENT` in `CREATE VIEW` (for all VIEW kinds). [#31062](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/31062) ([Vasily Nemkov](https://github.com/Enmk)).
- Dynamically reinitialize listening ports and protocols when configuration changes. [#30549](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/30549) ([Kevin Michel](https://github.com/kmichel-aiven)).
- Added `left`, `right`, `leftUTF8`, `rightUTF8` functions. Fix error in implementation of `substringUTF8` function with negative offset (offset from the end of string). [#33407](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33407) ([alexey-milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Add new functions for `H3` coordinate system: `h3HexAreaKm2`, `h3CellAreaM2`, `h3CellAreaRads2`. [#33479](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33479) ([Bharat Nallan](https://github.com/bharatnc)).
- Add `MONTHNAME` function. [#33436](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33436) ([usurai](https://github.com/usurai)).
- Added function `arrayLast`. Closes [#33390](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/33390). [#33415](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33415) Added function `arrayLastIndex`. [#33465](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33465) ([Maksim Kita](https://github.com/kitaisreal)).
- Add function `decodeURLFormComponent` slightly different to `decodeURLComponent`. Close [#10298](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/10298). [#33451](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33451) ([SuperDJY](https://github.com/cmsxbc)).
- Allow to split `GraphiteMergeTree` rollup rules for plain/tagged metrics (optional rule\_type field). [#33494](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33494) ([Michail Safronov](https://github.com/msaf1980)).

#### Performance Improvement[​](#performance-improvement-11 "Direct link to Performance Improvement")