v0.17.0-beta.5

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: add fixed size binary encoding to lance by @raunaks13 in #2707

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: raise exception if user passes unsorted indices to take_rows() of lance file api by @raunaks13 in #2729
• fix: flaky test caused by PQ distortion by @BubbleCal in #2732
• fix: don't panic when v2 scans end early (reader is dropped) by @westonpace in #2690
• fix: fix a crash that could sometimes happen reading largish string/binary data in a list by @westonpace in #2731

Documentation 📚

• docs: clean up quickstart notebook and add tags example usage by @dsgibbons in #2735

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf: cache default session contexts by @dsgibbons in #2709

New Contributors

• @dentiny made their first contribution in #2740

Full Changelog: v0.17.0-beta.4...v0.17.0-beta.5