v0.2.6

Changes

✨ New Features

• [FEAT] Add smart planning of ScanTasks starting with merging by filesizes @jaychia (#1692)
• [FEAT] Enable Comparison between timestamp / dates @samster25 (#1689)
• [FEAT] Enable MicroPartitions by default @jaychia (#1684)
• [FEAT] Temporal Literals for Date and Timestamp @samster25 (#1683)
• [FEAT] Partitioning exprs for Iceberg @samster25 (#1680)

👾 Bug Fixes

• [BUG] Use schema_hints as hints instead of definitive schema @colin-ho (#1636)
• [BUG] Allow for use of Ray jobs for benchmarking @jaychia (#1690)
• [BUG] fix off by 1 for retries for cred provider @samster25 (#1681)

🧰 Maintenance

• [CHORE] bump gcs and s3fs @samster25 (#1699)
• [CHORE] Add warmup step for remote tpch benchmarking @jaychia (#1691)
• [CHORE] drop s3 compat mode for gcs for anonymous mode @samster25 (#1682)
• [CHORE] Remove usage of credentials in workflows @jaychia (#1686)
• [CHORE] Iceberg Image Caching @samster25 (#1687)
• [CHORE] Bump Iceberg Version and V1 of caching @samster25 (#1685)

⬆️ Dependencies

• Bump globset from 0.4.13 to 0.4.14 @dependabot (#1694)
• Bump libc from 0.2.149 to 0.2.150 @dependabot (#1693)
• Bump google-github-actions/auth from 1 to 2 @dependabot (#1698)