v3.0.0-rc.3

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• feat!: support index progress reporting via callbacks by @wkalt in #5910
• perf!: remove shuffle buffer by @wkalt in #5912
• feat!: upgrade DataFusion dependency to 52.1.0 by @wjones127 in #6015
• refactor!: refactor java access to file format version by @jackye1995 in #6053
• refactor!: remove create_empty_table usage by @jackye1995 in #6087
• fix!: bump IVF_RQ version for compatibility check by @BubbleCal in #6097

Critical Fixes ‼️

• fix: deduplicate row addresses in take to prevent panic by @wjones127 in #5881
• fix: fts flat search drops rows when avg_doc_length < 1.0 by @wjones127 in #5897
• fix: invalidate index fragment bitmaps after data replacement and stale merge by @wjones127 in #5929

New Features 🎉

• feat: add RLE support for block by @yingjianwu98 in #4937
• feat: compress complex all null by @yingjianwu98 in #4990
• feat: support cleanup across branches by @majin1102 in #5009
• feat: dictionary index always32 bits by @yingjianwu98 in #5011
• feat: abort dictionary encode if not useful by @yingjianwu98 in #5055
• feat(cdf): cdf support upsert for views by @zhangyue19921010 in #5369
• feat(compaction): binary copy capability for compaction by @zhangyue19921010 in #5434
• feat: expose use_scalar_index param in Java scanner by @xloya in #5487
• feat(python): expose search_filter in scanner by @wojiaodoubao in #5506
• feat: add alter column nullable to non-nullable support by @Xuanwo in #5589
• feat: evolute all_null_layout to constant layout by @Xuanwo in #5641
• feat(java): support creating IVF_RQ index by @majin1102 in #5648
• feat(java): support building vector index distributively by @majin1102 in #5664
• feat(rust): add datafusion catalog_provider through namespace by @majin1102 in #5686
• feat: support List and Struct type for KeyValue in inserted_rows.rs by @wojiaodoubao in #5713
• feat: support tencent cos by @ztorchan in #5740
• feat: add Lance-HF docs to lance.org/integrations/huggingface/ by @prrao87 in #5748
• feat(python): support namespace for tensorflow by @yuqi1129 in #5750
• feat: add range to External blob by @wojiaodoubao in #5765
• feat(java): support json extraction by scanning by @majin1102 in #5770
• feat: introduce RowIdSet and RowIdMask by @yanghua in #5771
• feat: expose blob handling APIs to python by @Xuanwo in #5790
• feat: add blob handling support for fragment by @Xuanwo in #5801
• feat: add plan/execute separation to FilteredReadExec by @LuQQiu in #5843
• feat: add LSM scanner with point lookup and vector search support by @touch-of-grey in #5850
• feat: add rename table implementations to REST namespaces by @bryanck in #5874
• feat(python): expose enable_stable_row_ids in commit() by @fecet in #5908
• feat: support aggregate in scanner by @jackye1995 in #5911
• feat: spill page metadata to disk during IVF shuffle by @wkalt in #5921
• feat: add third party licenses lists by @jackye1995 in #5922
• feat(java): support session by @jackye1995 in #5931
• feat: make geodatafusion/geoarrow optional via geo feature flag by @apoc in #5934
• perf: create local writer for efficient local writes by @wkalt in #5939
• feat: add python and java binding for aggregate by @jackye1995 in #5951
• feat: add proto serialization for FilteredReadExec by @LuQQiu in #5954
• feat: create an arrow-scalar crate utilizing arrow-row and arrow-data by @westonpace in #5955
• feat: add progress monitoring via callbacks for inverted indexes by @vivek-bharathan in #5958
• feat: add size to object store tracing by @wjones127 in #5962
• feat: update minimum supported rust version from 1.88 to 1.91 by @westonpace in #5964
• feat: add Dataset::with_object_store for request-scoped store overrides by @wkalt in #5966
• feat: support namespace as external manifest store by @jackye1995 in #5968
• feat: serialize storage options in table identifier proto by @LuQQiu in #5973
• feat(core): add Levenshtein-based suggestions to not-found errors in schema by @HemantSudarshan in #5976
• feat: add URI-based commit support to Java SDK by @hamersaw in #5978
• fix: concurrent read and write to directory namespace by @jackye1995 in #5983
• feat: add ability to pass custom headers to objectstore requests by @hamersaw in #5989
• feat: add DeleteResult with num_deleted_rows by @wkalt in #6001
• feat: introduce IncompatibleTransaction error by @wjones127 in #6003
• feat: surface ambiguous merge insert error as InvalidInput by @wjones127 in #6048
• feat(blob): distribute blob sidecar keys with reversed binary ids by @Xuanwo in #6060
• feat: handle JSONB literals in Lance SQL planner by @wkalt in #6061
• feat(java): expose Dataset.dropIndex method to drop specific index by @fangbo in #6065
• feat(blob): map external blob URIs to multi-base base ids by @Xuanwo in #6066
• feat: add env toggle for repetition index cache on read by @Xuanwo in #6069
• feat(compaction): single reserve_fragment_ids after rewriting files by @hamersaw in #6072
• feat: expose compaction binary copy configuration through python and java SDKs by @hamersaw in #6074
• feat: mark 2.2 as stable and add 2.3 as the next file format version by @Xuanwo in #6088
• feat: support prewarm for IVF-based ANN indices by @wjones127 in #6090

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: ensure blob encoding work when using file reader directly by @rahil-c in #5193
• fix: support system columns in dataset.take* operations by @hamersaw in #5722
• fix: skip missing indices in compaction rewrite by @AndreaBozzo in #5739
• fix(lance-linalg): check fp16kernels feature before arch-specific code by @durch in #5747
• refactor: align blob behavior that write via file format version, read via layout by @Xuanwo in #5752
• fix: fix deletion when using file-object-store:// by @cmccabe in #5760
• fix: remove unreasonable nullable check for data types in hash_joiner during merge operation by @zhangyue19921010 in #5784
• fix: allow unused_unsafe for __cpuid to support both stable and nightly by @jackye1995 in #5793
• fix: set JUnit dependency as test scope by @bryanck in #5815
• fix(java): transaction fatal bug in java transaction api by @wojiaodoubao in #5824
• fix: fix remap so that it handles deletions correctly by @westonpace in #5828
• fix: inconsistent transposed pq code and metadata when build ivf_pq index distributedly by @yanghua in #5834
• fix: improve error messages in FixedSizeListArrayExt::convert_to_floating_point by @LuciferYang in #5836
• fix(java): panic when reading CreateIndex transaction by @majin1102 in #5853
• fix: fix mini-block dictionary bitpacking panic by @Xuanwo in #5860
• fix: fix boolean inline constant decoding by @Xuanwo in #5862
• fix: handle NULL elements in LABEL_LIST index results and explain_plan by @fenfeng9 in #5867
• fix: open additional storage options provider related apis in lance dataset by @jackye1995 in #5869
• fix: flaky test test_ann_prefilter for HNSW by @BubbleCal in #5870
• fix(java): init allocator for new dataset when checkout branch/tag by @fangbo in #5876
• fix: avoid panic when repdef serializes empty offsets by @fenfeng9 in #5890
• fix(java): align version type from i32 to u64 by @majin1102 in #5892
• fix: avoid bitmap range panic on inverted bounds by @fenfeng9 in #5893
• fix: split index_statistics to reduce rustc query depth by @Xuanwo in #5894
• fix: avoid panic on empty list LABEL_LIST filters by @fenfeng9 in #5914
• fix: correct OR null semantics for nullable masks by @fenfeng9 in #5919
• fix: respect fragment restrictions in vector and FTS searches when requested fragments by @yingjianwu98 in #5924
• fix: don't drop field metadata on merge insert path by @westonpace in #5927
• fix: apply SchemaAdapter in Updater by @westonpace in #5928
• fix: correct OR null handling for BlockList|BlockList by @fenfeng9 in #5944
• fix: remove unnecessary column projection for count aggregate by @jackye1995 in #5950
• fix: respect requested indexed fragment in vector and FTS searches by @yingjianwu98 in #5953
• fix: spawn part load in fts training by @westonpace in #5977
• fix: rest namespace integration with table version apis by @jackye1995 in #5980
• fix(encoding): handle empty rows in variable packed struct decode by @Xuanwo in #5995
• fix: various bugs to namespace access by @jackye1995 in #5996
• fix: set namespace commit handler for LanceDataset.commit by @jackye1995 in #6002
• fix: fast_search limits full text search to indexed fragments by @BubbleCal in #6006
• fix: fast_search should ignore any unindexed data for vector search by @BubbleCal in #6007
• fix: correctly calculate max visible level when a list has no def by @westonpace in #6008
• perf: avoid oversized variable buffers in full-zip scan batches by @Xuanwo in #6013
• fix: make overwrites retryable instead of compatible by @jackye1995 in #6014
• fix(python): avoid interpreter shutdown panic in BackgroundExecutor by @Xuanwo in #6023
• fix(btree): include null pages in non-IsNull queries for correct thre… by @wkalt in #6043
• fix: allowing headers for static configuration to be consistent by @hamersaw in #6045
• fix(build): add Android aarch64 support to lance-linalg by @dardourimohamed in #6057
• fix: make blob v2 reads base-aware in multi-base datasets by @Xuanwo in #6064
• fix(lance-linalg): fix missing return value in u8x16::bit_and for non-x86_64/aarch64 targets by @cheungxi in #6068
• fix: resolve Python lint failure on main by @Xuanwo in #6073
• fix: restore main CI by formatting take_blob imports by @Xuanwo in #6082
• fix: incorrect deletion masking in DatasetPreFilter by @cijiugechu in #6083
• fix: avoid thread pool contention between compression and write operations during FTS indexing by @BubbleCal in #6085
• fix: compile error for err_express by @zhangyue19921010 in #6094

Documentation 📚

• docs: add docs for branch by @majin1102 in #5104
• docs: fix issues in HF integration docs by @prrao87 in #5778
• docs: fix MkDocs protobuf reference for ConstantLayout by @Xuanwo in #5833
• docs(governance): introduce incubating subproject concept and update subproject list by @jackye1995 in #5847
• docs: add lance skills as user guide by @Xuanwo in #5877
• docs: add array type support by @XuQianJin-Stars in #5884
• docs: add FTS docs by @prrao87 in #5888
• docs: add schema data types and field IDs documentation by @dik654 in #5925
• docs: add lance-trino doc by @jackye1995 in #5943
• docs: add new maintainers by @prrao87 in #5959
• docs: expand the FTS index doc explaining the training process and multiple partitions by @westonpace in #5988
• docs: clarify v2.2 nested drop rollback risk by @Xuanwo in #5999
• docs: require data_storage_version=2.2 in map type example by @Xuanwo in #6032
• docs: update file versioning matrix for 2.2 rollout by @Xuanwo in #6033
• docs: reorganize blob docs around blob v2 and clarify legacy compatibility by @Xuanwo in #6034
• docs: align 2.2 encoding docs and nested add-column notes by @Xuanwo in #6038
• docs: clarify how to generate TPCH benchmark dataset locally by @Xuanwo in #6063

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf: add vector throughput benchmark by @westonpace in #5644
• perf: add a full text search benchmark by @westonpace in #5665
• perf: don't concat the batches for writing posting lists by @BubbleCal in #5769
• perf: add a lightweight scheduler implementation by @westonpace in #5773
• perf: use cpu pool to process all posting lists by @BubbleCal in #5780
• perf: calculate cardinality lazily by @Xuanwo in #5783
• perf: replace flatmap in build_distance_table by @wkalt in #5898
• perf: change Dataset::sample to sort its random indices by @wkalt in #5915
• perf: build fp16kernels with NEON support on iOS by @chyyran in #5917
• perf: reduce peak memory in nullable training data sampling by @wkalt in #5935
• perf: upgrade roaring to 0.11 and improve bitmap/range conversions by @LuQQiu in #5961
• perf: speed up format v2.2 scans by adding shortcut for full page by @Xuanwo in #5981
• perf: speed up format 2.2 300% by spawning structural decode batch tasks by @Xuanwo in #5982
• perf: improve parallelism of data_stats by @wkalt in #5990
• perf: reduce peak memory during cosine IVF-PQ index training by @wkalt in #6016
• perf: fast rotation for RQ quantization by @BubbleCal in #6024
• perf: avoid re-open shard indices and small reads by @BubbleCal in #6026
• perf: disable auto FSST for binary fields by @Xuanwo in #6047
• perf: speedup flat fts by @westonpace in #6054
• perf: add dict-values compression controls with lz4 default by @Xuanwo in #6059
• perf: avoid frequent allocating when computing residual vectors by @BubbleCal in #6062
• perf: add take_blob benchmark with cache_repetition_index matrix by @Xuanwo in #6067

Other Changes

• refactor: change reader's get_range result to be a static future by @westonpace in #5755
• refactor(python): migrate torch.jit.script to torch.compile by @wjones127 in #5759
• test: fix tests broken by pandas 3 release by @westonpace in #5786
• refactor: use dict entries and encoded size instead of cardinality for dict decision by @Xuanwo in #5891
• refactor: correct panic message typos in OrderableScalarValue::cmp by @fenfeng9 in #5913
• refactor: deprecate list_indices and migrate tests to describe_indices by @fenfeng9 in #5945
• refactor: upgrade to SNAFU 0.9 by @shepmaster in #6071

Full Changelog: release-root/3.0.0-beta.N...v3.0.0-rc.3