v0.14.0-beta.2

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: add dictionary encoding to lance by @raunaks13 in #2409
• feat: provide a fast ANN search plan by @eddyxu in #2554
• feat: create standalone IVF training API in python by @westonpace in #2553
• feat: support u8 for existing distance types by @BubbleCal in #2501
• feat: reserve cores for IO by @chebbyChefNEQ in #2496
• feat: allow users to create a file writer without a schema by @westonpace in #2558

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: propagate shuffle_partition_concurrency from Python SDK by @jiachengdb in #2564
• fix: avoid multiple threads loading same index partition by @albertlockett in #2559

Other Changes

• refactor: remove generic PQ impl and trait by @BubbleCal in #2529

New Contributors

• @walterddr made their first contribution in #2382

Full Changelog: v0.14.0-beta.1...v0.14.0-beta.2