python-v1.6.3

What's Changed

• docs: misc fixes and one added example by @plaindocs in #4570
• fix: handle delete with string columns by @rtyler in #4589
• feat: support dropping NOT NULL constraint on a column (DROP NOT NULL) by @adityavaish in #4552
• feat(catalog-unity): add custom token credential support to UnityCatalogBuilder by @11alieberman in #4592
• chore: upgrade to the buoyant_kernel 0.25 by @rtyler in #4582
• fix: optimize on Spark written table fails (#4586) by @andrei-ionescu in #4588
• feat: establish lazy snapshot materialization invariants by @ethan-tyler in #4602
• fix: fix typos in DeltaTable by @matt-lebl in #4604
• feat: cdf feed respects in commit timestamps now by @hntd187 in #4601
• feat: added TableFeature::V2Checkpoint to the reader and writer features by @newfront in #4598
• feat: support lazy snapshot replay capabilities by @ethan-tyler in #4618
• fix: percent encode spaces in action paths by @SreeramaYeshwanthGowd in #4624
• chore: tie to a released buoyant_kernel for a crates.io release by @rtyler in #4636
• chore: upgrade our build to 1.94.1 which is now required by @rtyler in #4650
• chore: add a Python release which publishes sdist explicitly by @rtyler in #4651
• fix: dont compare nested fields to partition_cols in map_fields since they are not partition candidates by @liamphmurphy in #4654
• feat: deletion vector support in cdf by @hntd187 in #4639
• chore: datafusion 55 upgrade and some related fixes by @rtyler in #4655
• chore: crates/aws: Cleanup S3 storage options by @akhramov in #4600
• chore: bump cargo.toml to 1.6.3 by @liamphmurphy in #4656

New Contributors

• @adityavaish made their first contribution in #4552
• @11alieberman made their first contribution in #4592
• @matt-lebl made their first contribution in #4604
• @newfront made their first contribution in #4598
• @SreeramaYeshwanthGowd made their first contribution in #4624
• @akhramov made their first contribution in #4600

Full Changelog: python-v1.6.2...python-v1.6.3