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layout: news_item date: “2018-07-20 08:45:00 +0000” author: volodymyr version: 1.17.0 categories: [release] tag: v1-17-0 sha: c2b3a99

The [Apache Calcite PMC]({{ site.baseurl }}) is pleased to announce [Apache Calcite release 1.17.0]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/history.html#v1-17-0).

This release comes four months after 1.16.0. It includes more than 90 resolved issues, comprising a large number of new features as well as general improvements and bug-fixes. Among others:

• Implemented Babel SQL parser that accepts all SQL dialects.
• Allowed JDK 8 language level for core module.
• Calcite has been upgraded to use Avatica 1.12.0