v0.4.21 Allow users to provide IVF centroids during indexing

What's Changed

• [Rust] Use lance local object store by @eddyxu in #959
• [Rust] Allow to provide pre-existing IVF_PQ centroids during index creation by @eddyxu in #963
• remove deletion_vector method and handle Result from reading deletion file properly by @chebbyChefNEQ in #965
• [Python] Pass IVF centroids via create_index API by @eddyxu in #970
• implement deletion vector handling in index scan by @chebbyChefNEQ in #958

Full Changelog: v0.4.20...v0.4.21

v0.4.20 Cast and timestamp literals in filters

What's Changed

• Add support for cast in expressions by @wjones127 in #957

Full Changelog: v0.4.19...v0.4.20

v0.4.19: new merge() function

What's Changed

• Merge a pre-computed column / array. by @eddyxu in #824
• Use backtick to escape column names by @wjones127 in #935
• seed l2 benchmark data generation and unroll ARM Neon simd by @chebbyChefNEQ in #937
• add a benchmark for cosine distance and unroll ARM Neon simd by @chebbyChefNEQ in #942

Full Changelog: v0.4.18...v0.4.19

v0.4.18 Release

What's Changed

• [Python] relax minimum pandas version to 1.4 by @changhiskhan in #921
• [Doc] Update README.md by @jaichopra in #924
• [Rust] argmin benchmark by @chebbyChefNEQ in #927
• [Docs]: add branding to docs by @wjones127 in #928
• [Rust] Add deletion files to Lance format by @wjones127 in #920
• [Rust] Allow recreate index with the same name on the same column by @eddyxu in #929
• [Doc] make sure we can publish on docs.rs by @wjones127 in #925

Full Changelog: v0.4.17...v0.4.18

v0.4.17 Release

What's Changed

• feat: typecheck arrow objects before sending to Rust by @wjones127 in #914
• Implementing more granular Errors using snafu. by @gsilvestrin in #913
• Check an object store is on local file system by @eddyxu in #918

Full Changelog: v0.4.16...v0.4.17

v0.4.16 Regex support in filter expression

What's Changed

• [CI] fix typo in make-release-commit workflow by @changhiskhan in #903
• [Rust] allow filter with regex expression on columns by @chebbyChefNEQ in #899
• [CI] bump windows-build storage to 1gb by @chebbyChefNEQ in #905
• [Doc] cloud storage support by @eddyxu in #907
• [CI] fix action yaml, storage config needs to be on the first step by @chebbyChefNEQ in #906
• [Rust] ObjectStore::read_dir method by @eddyxu in #911

New Contributors

• @chebbyChefNEQ made their first contribution in #899

Full Changelog: v0.4.15...v0.4.16

v0.4.15 Smaller footprint and docs improvements

DuckDB was unnecessarily included as a required dependency, which increases the overall footprint by ~42mb. Removing it makes Lance easier to install in small containers with limited space or more stringent startup time needs.

What's Changed

• ci: fix path in cargo release ci by @wjones127 in #893
• Update docs page link by @gsilvestrin in #900
• update lancedb org references by @jaichopra in #897
• Remove duckdb as python package dependency by @eddyxu in #902

Full Changelog: v0.4.14...v0.4.15

v0.4.14

What's Changed

New features:

• feat: allow setting offset without limit by @wjones127 in #892
• Customize index type in index creation benchmark by @eddyxu in #886
• [Rust] Experimental: DiskANN search by @eddyxu in #798

Bug fixes:

• [DuckDB] Fix linux build by @eddyxu in #887

Internal changes:

• fix: update minimal futures version by @wjones127 in #883
• ci: pass both mac os targets to macos release job by @wjones127 in #882
• ci: use rust cache by @wjones127 in #881
• Update GHA workflow to make a new commit by @changhiskhan in #889
• Github workflow to run cargo publish on release by @changhiskhan in #888
• resolve name conflict for workflows by @changhiskhan in #890

Full Changelog: v0.4.13...v0.4.14

v0.4.13 More concurrent scans

What's Changed

• fix: fetch remainder of metadata if it is large by @wjones127 in #873
• wip: allow scanning data in out of order by @wjones127 in #874
• feat: add fragments option to the scanner itself by @wjones127 in #877

Full Changelog: v0.4.12...v0.4.13

v0.4.12 Expose Scanner from_fragments

What's Changed

• Add format string for the assertion by @haoxins in #866
• GH-860: Create a scanner from fragments by @wjones127 in #869

New Contributors

• @wjones127 made their first contribution in #869

Full Changelog: v0.4.11...v0.4.12