Add Trino 472 release notes

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Description

Assemble the release notes for the upcoming Trino 472 release.

Additional context and related issues

See https://github.com/trinodb/trino/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A472

Release notes

(x) This is not user-visible or is docs only, and no release notes are required.

Verification for each pull request

Format: PR/issue number, ✅ / ❌ rn ✅ / ❌ docs
✅ rn - release note added and verified, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ rn before completion
✅ docs - need for docs assessed and merged, or assessed to be not necessary, set to ❌ docs before completion

19 Feb 2025

• Add $partition hidden column to Iceberg #25037 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Set hive.partition-projection-enabled to true by default #25079 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Note the need for Rosetta on Apple Silicon #25089 ✅ rn ✅ docs

20 Feb 2025

• Update airlift to 307 and other upgrades #25090 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Limit BigQuery off heap memory to split context #24984 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix link in release note 471 #25092 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update airbase to 220 and airlift to 309 #25095 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve AI function docs #25087 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Rename http-clients for consistency #25099 ✅ rn ✅ docs

21 Feb 2025

• Update airbase and other dependencies #25104 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Check ORC sorting using file data #25084 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Limit WITH SESSION scope to SELECT statements #25112 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Document wildcard tables query support #25108 ✅ rn ✅ docs

22 Feb 2025

no PRs merged

23 Feb 2025

• Fix property name in S3 file-system migration guide #25118 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update JUnit to 5.12.0, google & aws cloud SDKs #25115 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Exchange statistics improvements #25111 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update apache ignite to 2.17.0 #25119 ✅ rn ✅ docs

24 Feb 2025

• Replace custom annotation with Jetbrain @NotNullByDefault #25121 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add concurrent OPTIMIZE tests for Iceberg #25103 ✅ rn ✅ docs

25 Feb 2025

• Improve consistency of invalid session properties #25131 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support large number of projections in CursorProcessor #25040 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Suggest valid session property names #25133 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Refactor TPCH connector to produce pages by default #25134 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Spooling cleanup #25137 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add libstdc++ to the docker image #25143 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Showcase support for reading wildcard tables in Elasticsearch & OpenSearch #25098 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Temporarily disable TestIcebergS3TablesConnectorSmokeTest #25147 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve license section in the POM #25150 ✅ rn ✅ docs

26 Feb 2025

• Batch update dependencies #25155 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Refactor output spooling controller #25153 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Bump loki-client-java to 0.0.4 #25159 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Post JDK-11 client cleanup #25164 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Implement DataSource in JDBC Driver #24985 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Increase DeltaLake transaction conflict retries from 5 to 200 #25141 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Allow querying Faker tables with some unsupported data types #25120 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix VariableWidthData#getRetainedSize() estimate #25167 ✅ rn ✅ docs

27 Feb 2025

• Update BigQuery connector documentation #25109 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Update dependencies #25180 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve materializing input stream in the client #25171 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix resource files for TPCH stats #25182 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Close QueryDataEncoder and Producer when processing is complete #25168 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove COMMIT entry type from checkpoint reader #25177 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove deprecated ConnectorMetadata.addColumn #25163 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• A bunch of docs improvements #25173 ✅ rn ✅ docs

28 Feb 2025

• Update Iceberg version to 1.8.1 #25094 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Updates dep #25189 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix FTE local FS usage note #25190 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fix test method visibility #25139 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Correct parquet row group pruning logic #25186 ✅ rn ✅ docs

1 Mar 2025

• Support read inCommitTimestamp in Delta Lake history table #25056 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Fixed a bug that wrong sidecar size passed into reader #25194 ✅ rn ✅ docs

2 Mar 2025

• Fix null handling in cosine_distance and cosine_similarity #25195 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 in the dependency-updates group #25198 ✅ rn ✅ docs

3 Mar 2025

• Update airbase to 227 & AWS SDK v2 #25197 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Set setRoles after roles are reset in trino-jdbc #25191 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add system.bucket function to Iceberg #25175 ✅ rn ❌ docs
• Fix BlockBuilder resetTo() method for complex types #25196 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Document HTTP client config for AI functions #25144 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve AI function error messages #25172 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove unused Groovy plugin declaration #25210 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add validation cpu time calculation in AbstractDeltaLakePageSink #25212 ✅ rn ✅ docs

4 Mar 2025

• Update cloud SDKs #25213 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add docs for plugins #25017 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Remove redundant default Hadoop FS config #25209 ✅ rn ✅ docs

5 Mar 2025

• Update docker-images to 110 #25203 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Refactor tests to align with Trino guidelines #25216 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Support integral cast projection pushdown in PostgreSql #24982 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Serafin/march 5 updates #25218 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Push TopN through non-identity projection unconditionally #25193 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Upgrade wire to 5.2.1 #25221 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve maven setup #25224 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Improve DuckDB connector docs #25146 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add minimal tarball #25026 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Use a proper variable in assertion #25220 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Optimize BigQuery listing tables #25222 ✅ rn ✅ docs
• Add Trino 472 release notes #25101 ✅ rn ✅ docs