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+## Version 3.8.0 Release Notes
+
+Compatible with OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 3.8.0
+
+### Features
+
+* Add explain to AnalyticsExecutionEngine ([#5442](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5442))
+* DATE/TIME label and rendering for date-only / time-only fields ([#5521](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5521))
+* Support PPL timewrap command ([#5241](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5241))
+* Support PPL foreach command ([#5613](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5613))
+* Add PPL `makeresults` command ([#5622](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5622))
+* Xyseries command implementation ([#5343](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5343))
+
+### Enhancements
+
+* Support SQL query profiling with the analytics engine ([#5475](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5475))
+* fix(core): make appendcol row ordering deterministic on parallel engines ([#5474](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5474))
+* Wires `EngineContextProvider` (analytics-engine API) into the SQL plugin for schema resolution ([#5486](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5486))
+* Make addcoltotals/addtotals summary row backend-deterministic ([#5477](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5477))
+* Add `UNION ALL` to the unified query SQL path ([#5506](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5506))
+* Branch percentile and sum-null IT expectations for the analytics-engine route ([#5522](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5522))
+* Fix CalcitePPLAggregationIT on the analytics-engine route (parquet testSimpleCount0 + APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT name) ([#5525](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5525))
+* Parquet-back raw-PUT test indices on the analytics-engine route ([#5529](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5529))
+* Stabilize order-dependent PPL ITs with explicit sort for multi-shard analytics runs ([#5537](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5537))
+* Support bare-field join criteria `join on <field>` shorthand ([#5517](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5517))
+* fix(integ): align DateTimeComparisonIT today's date to UTC ([#5543](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5543))
+* Bring CalcitePPLBasicIT to parity on the analytics-engine route ([#5542](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5542))
+* Bring CalciteWhereCommandIT to parity on the analytics-engine route ([#5546](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5546))
+* Classify unsupported-feature errors as client errors (4xx) on the SQL path ([#5569](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5569))
+* Reject unsupported output formats on the analytics-engine route with a 4xx ([#5570](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5570))
+* Fix NPE when rex sits inside appendcol subsearch for Analytic Engine ([#5574](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5574))
+* Fix NPE on case() with incompatible branch types ([#5575](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5575))
+* Add configurable expression depth limit during AST building ([#5602](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5602))
+* feat: add json_tree explain format ([#5576](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5576))
+* Widen narrow integer operands in PPL +/-/* to prevent overflow ([#5603](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5603))
+* Onboard new backport-pr re-usable github workflow (sql) ([#5586](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5586))
+* Support constant_keyword field type in PPL ([#5639](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5639))
+* Decouple Calcite PPL planning from ExprType ([#5633](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5633))
+* Anonymize xyseries command and mark it experimental in docs ([#5643](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5643))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Publish failure metrics for SQL analytics engine execution path ([#5487](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5487))
+* Exclude AnalyticsEngineCompatIT from the main integTest task ([#5501](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5501))
+* Preserve aggregate aliases for unified query SQL ([#5509](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5509))
+* Skip AnalyticsEngineCompatIT when analytics-engine plugin is absent ([#5510](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5510))
+* Coerce temporal operands in IN and BETWEEN when leastRestrictive finds no common type ([#5513](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5513))
+* Restore dedup pushdown when combined with WHERE clause (#5482) ([#5488](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5488))
+* Key date_time pushdown on field type, not literal UDT (#5481) ([#5515](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5515))
+* Fix SQL aggregate window with ORDER BY defaulting to whole partition ([#5526](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5526))
+* Fix `FILTER(WHERE)` dropped on aggregates in unified SQL path ([#5523](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5523))
+* Fix `SHOW`/`DESCRIBE` statement routing under `cluster.pluggable.dataformat` setting ([#5528](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5528))
+* Fix invalid field or index error misclassified as internal failures ([#5532](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5532))
+* Handle opaque NullPointerException for unresolvable alias-type field path ([#5536](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5536))
+* fix(integ): repair two pre-existing IT failures on main (QueryValidationIT error type, NoMv explain flake) ([#5545](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5545))
+* Strip AE-unsupported fields from test data and exclude the ITs doomed by it ([#5541](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5541))
+* Fix `GROUP BY` expression resolution in `SELECT`/`HAVING`/`ORDER BY` ([#5548](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5548))
+* Propagate request-task cancellation into the analytics PPL route ([#5563](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5563))
+* Return all columns (struct and nested fields) listed when using head ([#5518](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5518))
+* Preserve SQL-layer profiling alongside the analytics-engine profile ([#5571](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5571))
+* allow partial pushdown for semi-scripted predicates ([#5565](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5565))
+* Fix ClassCastException in PPL multisearch on indexes with @timestamp alias field ([#5577](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5577))
+* Return 4xx instead of 500 for unsupported window functions ([#5587](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5587))
+* Fix SQL window functions with `ORDER BY`/`LIMIT` on unified query path ([#5592](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5592))
+* Fix AE `isPluggableDataformatIndex` for multi index PPL queries ([#5581](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5581))
+* fix: Gracefully handle malformed documents in result scanning ([#5618](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5618))
+* fix(dedup): use Map<String,List<String>> for fieldNameMapping to handle alias collision ([#5593](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5593))
+* Detect long (BIGINT) arithmetic overflow instead of silently wrapping (#5164) ([#5604](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5604))
+* Fix PPL foreach JSON array type coercion ([#5637](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5637))
+
+### Infrastructure
+
+* Exclude full-text search-filter operator tests on the analytics-engine route ([#5527](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5527))
+* feat(test): add WHERE-prefix view infrastructure for cross-command testing (#5505) ([#5508](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5508))
+* update datetime tests to stay within ae bounds ([#5534](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5534))
+* case test patches ([#5531](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5531))
+* Fix doctest job-scheduler dependency resolution for 3.8.0 ([#5540](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5540))
+* Bring CalciteBinCommandIT and CalciteMultisearchCommandIT to parity on the analytics-engine route ([#5551](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5551))
+* Bring CalcitePPLJoinIT to parity on the analytics-engine route ([#5554](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5554))
+* Bring CalcitePPLEnhancedCoalesceIT to parity on the analytics-engine route ([#5552](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5552))
+* fix(integ): use engine-zone today in DateTimeFunctionIT now()-based assertions ([#5553](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5553))
+* Stabilize subquery PPL ITs on the analytics-engine route ([#5555](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5555))
+* Stabilize CalcitePPLConditionBuiltinFunctionIT on the analytics-engine route ([#5556](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5556))
+* Recover ANY-typed column schema on the analytics route (fixes eval max/min) ([#5557](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5557))
+* Decouple IT from execution backend with capability-based gating ([#5560](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5560))
+* Stabilize PPL ITs on the analytics-engine route (case/string/full-text/like/appendpipe/datatype) ([#5561](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5561))
+* Stabilize PPL ITs on the analytics-engine route (array/map-path/datatype/basic) ([#5562](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5562))
+* Stabilize PPL ITs on the analytics-engine route (percentile/float/datetime/json/dedup/union/rename/chart) ([#5564](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5564))
+* fix: Honor PPL fetch_size on the analytics-engine route ([#5567](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5567))
+* Stabilize more PPL ITs on the analytics-engine route (sort/streamstats/IP-UDT/metadata/strip-verifier) ([#5566](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5566))
+* Stabilize CalciteStreamstatsCommandIT on the analytics-engine route ([#5582](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5582))
+* Bump get-ci-image-tag.yml ref to SHA-pinned opensearch-build commit to unblock CI ([#5583](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5583))
+* Fix SQL IT test queries, assertions, and data for engine-agnostic compatibility ([#5584](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5584))
+* Gate analytics engine incompatible IT tests with capability matrix ([#5585](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5585))
+* Bump Apache Calcite 1.41.0 -> 1.42.0 (CVE-2026-46718) ([#5619](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5619))
+* Make HTTP status assertion protocol-independent ([#5623](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5623))
+
+### Maintenance
+
+* Fix transpose VARCHAR length drift in unpivot/pivot lowering ([#5479](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5479))
+* Increment version to 3.8.0-SNAPSHOT ([#5498](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5498))
+* fix lychee ([#5451](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5451))
+* Fix flaky TPC-H Q15 floating-point assertion ([#5629](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/5629))