KNIME 4.5.1

What's new in this version:

Enhancements:
- Add support to Column Expressions for creating standard file system paths

Fixed:
- Bundled Chromium Browser cannot show interactive view of Composite Views in AP
- Incorrect handling of spaces in UNC paths (windows)
- Deprecated Table Reader and File Reader nodes should not have dots for dynamic input ports
- Creation of DeepLearning Environment (on preferences page) fails in 4.5.0
- Generic Web Services Client fails on certain WSDLs with the 4.4 update
BD-1154: (Big Data Extensions): Metadata browsing fails with Local Big Data Environment database
- LZ4 initialization deadlock
- Excel Writer fails to append to existing file using SMB Connector
- NPE in NodeContainerEditPart on Component Update
- Maximum batch size in Python is way too large
- XML Reader leaks input streams when using XPath with invalid reader settings
- Update log4j version used by xmlbeans to 2.17.1; prevents CVE-2021-44228 and others (though not exploitable in KNIME)
- Excel Cell Updater in Wrong Repository Group
- Columnar Table Backend not part of default Mac installation
- SinkManager and BatchProcessors are not synchronized during Python kernel close
- Workflow Service Output doesn't include the data of 'static inputs' when writing Workflow Port Objects
- Custom/KNIME URL file system does not properly handle HTTP responses with compressed Content-Encoding
- Index Reader node does not use connected file system
- Array flow variables are exposed as Py4J objects
- DB Connectors apply default value of new parameter instead of backward compatible value when restoring existing connection
- Sorting tables containing DictEncoded DataCells fails in view
- Python Script (Labs) node converts conda environment variable to string
- Python Table with Void Column (all values are None) throws error
- Python: knio.write_table throws error, if cell type is not supported by PyArrow
- Displaying errors in the map view of the Open Street Map extension
- Excel Writer fails when writing to XLSX with Evaluate Formulas option enabled
- Wait... node should not block a worker thread from the thread pool when waiting for file
- Salesforce Simple Query node does not properly URLencode the where clause
- (Big Data Extensions): PySpark: Invalid Python code inserted when clicking on input column