v0.18.0

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• feat!: change the default data storage version to "stable" (e.g. v2.0) by @westonpace in #2829
• feat!: update_table returns stats by @QianZhu in #2867
• Revert "chore!: remove manylinux 2014 build (#2891)" by @eddyxu in #2892
• feat!: add batch_size option to merge_columns by @westonpace in #2896

New Features 🎉

• feat: propagate storage_options to LanceFileWriter and LanceFileReader by @ankitvij-db in #2840
• feat(java): support Lance Spark Batch Write by @LuQQiu in #2500
• feat: add a separate retry loop on object contents download by @westonpace in #2874
• feat: support decimal 128 and 256 json types by @LuQQiu in #2880
• feat: add CreateIndex commit type to python API by @jiachengdb in #2883

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: ensure the v2 file writer does not mix up the order of a column by @westonpace in #2836
• fix: calculate decode priority correctly by @westonpace in #2841
• fix: vector column mismatch should not be a IO Error by @LuQQiu in #2845
• fix: phrase query may return incorrect results if there's unknown word by @BubbleCal in #2850
• fix: check label list list column type earlier by @LuQQiu in #2846
• fix: can't filter on string column which has FTS index by @BubbleCal in #2875
• fix: limit/offset pushdown was not working correctly in the presence of deletions by @westonpace in #2895
• fix: fix release versions by @LuQQiu in #2897
• fix: revert Bump version f3eef61 by @LuQQiu in #2900

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf: parallelize remapping to improve FTS compaction by @BubbleCal in #2834
• perf: concurrent loading FTS index files by @BubbleCal in #2787

Other Changes

• refactor: convert encoders to use data blocks by @westonpace in #2817

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0