Release 0.34.0

0.34.0 (2026-08-20)

Features

• Add native BCF APIs with VCF parity (#435) (4b73db1)
• packaging: conda recipes for polars-bio and polars-config-meta (#426) (6fe05c5), closes conda-forge/staged-recipes#34325 conda-forge/staged-recipes#34325 conda-forge/staged-recipes#34325 conda-forge/staged-recipes#34325 bioconda-recipes#67602
• Add BGEN and PGEN read, scan, register, and describe APIs (#436) (4dd8c5c), closes #216 #231 datafusion-bio-formats#232 datafusion-bio-formats#234 #235 datafusion-bio-formats#236 datafusion-bio-formats#236 datafusion-bio-formats#236 datafusion-bio-formats#234-236 #234 datafusion-bio-formats#236 datafusion-bio-formats#234 #235 #236 #237 datafusion-bio-formats#237

Bug Fixes

• test: surface pyBigWig loader failures (#439) (7ee6fcf)

Documentation

• packaging: document conda install, drop the redundant bump workflow (#438) (2b04086)