v0.18.0-beta.1

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• feat!: change the default data storage version to "stable" (e.g. v2.0) by @westonpace in #2829

New Features 🎉

• feat: propagate storage_options to LanceFileWriter and LanceFileReader by @ankitvij-db in #2840
• feat(java): support Lance Spark Batch Write by @LuQQiu in #2500
• feat: add a separate retry loop on object contents download by @westonpace in #2874

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: vector column mismatch should not be a IO Error by @LuQQiu in #2845
• fix: phrase query may return incorrect results if there's unknown word by @BubbleCal in #2850
• fix: check label list list column type earlier by @LuQQiu in #2846
• fix: can't filter on string column which has FTS index by @BubbleCal in #2875

Other Changes

• refactor: convert encoders to use data blocks by @westonpace in #2817

Full Changelog: v0.17.1-beta.2...v0.18.0-beta.1