The MonetDB Foundation is pleased to announce the Aug2024-SP2 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/release-notes/aug2024/>. As usual, the download location is <https://www.monetdb.org/downloads/>. ### Bug Fixes - [7112](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7112): Need keyboard shortcut to interrupt query execution rather than session - [7205](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7205): Unpredictable performance when performing joins over nested queries - [7574](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7574): Assertion failure at `rel2bin_select` when using `STARTSWITH` - [7588](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7588): incorrect output with single row inputs for var_samp(c) over() - [7589](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7589): "SELECT * FROM sessions" crashes monetdb/e - [7593](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7593): A value is being returned with unnecessary scientific notation - [7595](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7595): SQLTestCase leaks pymonetdb connections - [7597](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7597): Upgrade + quick restart causes database inconsistency - [7599](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7599): str_to_date fails when combined with SQL CASE clause - [7602](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7602): COPY INTO from multiple files causes an assertion error. - [7603](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7603): COPY INTO from three or more files crashes the server. - [7604](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7604): file_loader() causes server crash when csv file contains too few field separators or contains empty lines - [7607](https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB/issues/7607): Adding a column of serial type fails with "Access denied for <user> to schema 'sys'"