Add October 2023 monthly update (facebookincubator#7366)

Summary: Pull Request resolved: facebookincubator#7366

Reviewed By: pedroerp

Differential Revision: D50884806

Pulled By: mbasmanova

fbshipit-source-id: 0abadcd835fcf4935e520f71142d8e863786a56a

velox/docs/functions/presto/datetime.rst

@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ arbitrary large timestamps.
 
     This is an alias for :func:`year_of_week`.
 
+.. _presto-time-zones:
 
 Time Zones
 ----------

velox/docs/monthly-updates.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Monthly Updates
 .. toctree::
     :maxdepth: 1
 
+    monthly-updates/october-2023
     monthly-updates/september-2023
     monthly-updates/august-2023
     monthly-updates/july-2023

velox/docs/monthly-updates/october-2023.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+*******************
+October 2023 Update
+*******************
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+* Add documentation for simple UDAF interface.
+* Add blog post about `reduce_agg <https://velox-lib.io/blog/reduce-agg>`_ lambda aggregate function.
+* Extend documentation for datetime Presto functions to explain handling of :ref:`time zones <presto-time-zones>`.
+* Extend documentation for :func:`reduce_agg` Presto lambda aggregate function.
+* Fix Unnest operator to honor `preferred_output_batch_rows` configuration property and avoid producing huge vectors. :pr:`7051`
+
+Core Library
+============
+
+* Add spill support to Window, RowNumber and TopNRowNumber operators.
+* Add spill support after receiving all input to HashAggregation operator. :pr:`6903`
+* Add spill stats to the output of printPlanWithStats.
+* Add logic to adaptively abandon partial TopNRowNumber if cardinality reduction is not sufficient. :pr:`7195`
+* Add optimized version of Window operator for the case when inputs are already partitioned and sorted. :pr:`5437`
+* Add support for order-able and comparable arguments to function signatures.
+* Add support for order-able and comparable arguments to the Simple Function interface. :pr:`7293`
+
+Presto Functions
+================
+
+* Add :func:`find_first` and :func:`find_first_index` scalar lambda functions.
+* Add :func:`any_match`, :func:`all_match`, :func:`none_match` scalar lambda functions.
+* Add :func:`all_keys_match`, :func:`any_keys_match`, :func:`any_values_match`,
+  :func:`no_keys_match`, :func:`no_values_match` scalar lambda functions.
+* Add :func:`remove_nulls` scalar function.
+* Add :func:`ends_with` and :func:`starts_with` scalar functions.
+* Add :func:`to_ieee754_32` scalar function.
+* Add support for non-constant patterns and escape characters to :func:`like` function. :pr:`6917`
+* Add support for BOOLEAN inputs to :func:`least` and :func:`greatest` scalar functions.
+* Add support for INTEGER inputs to :func:`poisson_cdf` and :func:`binomial_cdf` scalar functions.
+* Add support for maps with keys of UNKNOWN type in :func:`map_filter` scalar lambda function.
+* Add support for REAL inputs to :func:`geometric_mean` aggregate function.
+* Add support for floating point keys to :func:`map_union_sum` aggregate function.
+* Add support for CAST to and from complex types with nested JSON values. :pr:`7256`
+* Fix 1ms-off issue in :func:`from_unixtime` scalar function. :pr:`7047`
+* Fix :func:`array_min` and :func:`array_max` for floating point numbers to match Presto. :pr:`7128`
+* Fix :func:`checksum` aggregate function. :pr:`6910`
+* Fix :func:`array_sort` and :func:`contains` scalar functions to reject inputs with nested nulls.
+* Fix :func:`map_agg`, :func:`set_agg`, :func:`min_by` and :func:`max_by` aggregate functions to
+  reject inputs with nested nulls.
+* Fix :func:`array_sort` and :func:`array_sort_desc` to restrict inputs to order-able types. :pr:`:func:`6928`
+* Fix :func:`min`, :func:`min_by`, :func:`max`, :func:`max_by` aggregate functions to restrict inputs to order-able types. :pr:`:func:`7232`
+* Fix CAST(VARCHAR as JSON) for Unicode characters. :pr:`7119`
+* Fix CAST(JSON as ROW) to use case-insensitive match for keys. :pr:`7016`
+
+Spark Functions
+===============
+
+* Add :spark:func:`array_min`, :spark:func:`array_max`, :spark:func:`add_months`,
+  :spark:func:`conv`, :spark:func:`substring_index`, :spark:func:`datediff` scalar functions.
+* Add support for DECIMAL inputs to :spark:func:`multiply` and :spark:func:`divide`.
+* Fix :spark:func:`sum` aggregate function for BIGINT inputs to allow overflow.
+
+Hive Connector
+==============
+
+* Add support for reading from Azure Storage. :pr:`6675`
+
+Performance and Correctness
+===========================
+
+* Optimize spilling by switching to `gfx::timsort <https://github.com/timsort/cpp-TimSort>`_ (from std::sort). :pr:`6745`.
+* Add support for disabling caching in expression evaluation to reduce memory usage via `enable_expression_evaluation_cache` configuration property. :pr:`6898`
+* Add support for validating output of every operator via `debug.validate_output_from_operators` configuration property. :pr:`6687`
+* Add support for order-able function arguments to the Fuzzer. :pr:`6950`
+* Fix edge cases in datetime processing during daylight saving transition. :pr:`7011`
+* Fix comparisons of complex types values using floating point numbers in the RowContainer. :pr:`5833`
+* Fix window aggregations for empty frames. :pr:`6872`
+* Fix GroupID operator with duplicate grouping keys in the output. :pr:`6738`
+* Fix global grouping set aggregations for empty inputs. :pr:`7112`
+* Fix aggregation function framework to require raw input types for all aggregates to avoid confusion and incorrect results. :pr:`7037`
+
+Build Systems
+=============
+
+* Add support for Conda Environments. :pr:`6282`
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Alex, Alex Hornby, Amit Dutta, Ann Rose Benny, Bikramjeet Vig, Chengcheng Jin,
+Christian Zentgraf, Cody Ohlsen, Daniel Munoz, David Tolnay, Deepak Majeti,
+Genevieve (Genna) Helsel, Huameng (Michael) Jiang, Jacob Wujciak-Jens, Jaihari
+Loganathan, Jason Sylka, Jia Ke, Jialiang Tan, Jimmy Lu, John Elliott, Jubin
+Chheda, Karteekmurthys, Ke, Kevin Wilfong, Krishna Pai, Krishna-Prasad-P-V,
+Laith Sakka, Ma-Jian1, Mahadevuni Naveen Kumar, Mark Shroyer, Masha Basmanova,
+Orri Erling, PHILO-HE, Patrick Sullivan, Pedro Eugenio Rocha Pedreira, Pramod,
+Prasoon Telang, Pratik Joseph Dabre, Pratyush Verma, Rong Ma, Sergey Pershin,
+Wei He, Zac, aditi-pandit, dependabot[bot], duanmeng, joey.ljy, lingbin,
+rrando901, rui-mo, usurai, wypb, xiaoxmeng, xumingming, yan ma, yangchuan,
+yingsu00, zhejiangxiaomai, 高阳阳