The MonetDB team at MonetDB Solutions BV is pleased to announce the Jan2022-SP3 bugfix release of the MonetDB suite of programs.

More information about MonetDB can be found on our website at https://www.monetdb.org/.

For details on this release, please see the release notes at https://www.monetdb.org/documentation/admin-guide/release-notes/jan2022/.

As usual, the download location is https://www.monetdb.org/downloads/.

### MonetDB Common

- All accesses to the BACKUP directory need to be protected by the same lock. The lock already existed (GDKtmLock), but wasn't used consistently. This is now fixed. Hopefully this makes the hot snapshot code more reliable.

- When exiting, long running instructions are aborted using the same mechanism that is used for query timeouts.

### SQL Frontend

- GLOBAL TEMPORARY tables are now treated like LOCAL TEMPORARY tables as far as the table content is concerned. The schema information stays global. This fixes an issue with concurrent access and cleanup of stale data.

- The NO CONSTRAINT option of the COPY INTO query has been removed. It didn't work and it was never a good idea anyway.

### Bug Fixes

- [7036](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7036): Generate column names instead of labels