v0.7.7

What's Changed 🚀

✨ Features

• feat(subscriber): add Event enum and on_event dispatch for subscriber @cckellogg (#6508)
• feat: support various image hash functions (aHash, dHash, pHash, wHash, crop-resistant hash) for deduplication @linguoxuan (#6338)
• feat: add support for writing _SUCCESS files in parquet operations @Lucas61000 (#6090)
• feat: add dual-send telemetry to osstelemetry.io @ykdojo (#6540)
• feat(tracing): add DAFT_TRACE console tracing with configurable format @cckellogg (#6458)
• feat: convert and replace timezone @aaron-ang (#6106)
• feat: added concat_ws function @euanlimzx (#6543)
• feat: Add a random shuffle operation @srilman (#6481)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(dataframe): explain plan does not make sense when using a write_ op @Abyss-lord (#6564)
• fix(native): preserve df metrics after stats manager shutdown @cckellogg (#6555)
• fix: hide dashboard result preview for unsupported queries (Flotilla) @samstokes (#6557)
• fix: short-circuit evaluation for coalesce @Lucas61000 (#6525)
• fix(ci): use content-hash mtimes to prevent stale cargo cache artifacts @desmondcheongzx (#6546)

🚀 Performance

• perf(parquet): yield individual batches in streaming path to fix morsel cache locality @desmondcheongzx (#6558)
• perf: reduce binary size by de-monomorphizing sort and dispatch paths @NikkeTryHard (#6541)
• perf: Rewrite decode(..., "utf-8") as a cast @srilman (#6537)

📖 Documentation

• docs: add UDF patterns tutorial notebook and example page @everettVT (#6539)

🔧 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump the all group with 9 updates @dependabot[bot] (#6569)
• chore: harden supply chain — exclude-newer, pin actions and uv @everettVT (#6565)
• chore(io): replace python source shim on the rust side @rchowell (#6556)

⬆️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump the all group with 9 updates @dependabot[bot] (#6569)

Full Changelog: v0.7.6...v0.7.7