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* **Improvements**
- Add support for retaining cookies among http requests for LDAP and GSSAPI/PLAIN
SASL (465)
Notes: Authentication cookie is enabled by default. The connect() API parameter
auth_cookie_names is deprecated. If a user uses GSSAPI authentication with
existing client code to call connect() API with auth_cookie_names set as None
explicitly, the auth cookie will be enabled after upgrading Impyla to 0.18.
- Add support for authentication via JWT token (463)
- Add support for retaining cookies among http requests for NOSASL and JWT
authentication (477)
- Upgrade Thrift to 0.16.0 (490)
Notes: this fixes compatibility with Python 3.10
- Enable supports_multivalues_insert in SQLAlchemy (499)
- Enable setting user_agent in http protocol (498)
* **Bug Fixes**
- Fix an issue where datetime or date is not correctly quoted as string when
performing sql substitutions (487)
- Fix parameter substitution in executemany() (494)
- Convert the values of VARCHAR/CHAR columns to unicode strings (457)
- Add missing expect_more_rows argument (453)