v0.4.5 Preview private API for merging columns

Welcome @Mause as our newest contributor! Also, a big thank you for your work on the duckdb extension framework.

In this release we added a preview of the feature to do distributed column additions. This makes it possible to distribute Lance Fragments across nodes, add a new column to each Fragment, and then write a new Lance dataset version manifest with the updated schema and files.

What's Changed

• add support for aws profile by @Renkai in #807
• Upgrade Arrow to 37 by @changhiskhan in #810
• Schema intersection by @eddyxu in #814
• Add a check to make sure field names don't contain periods by @changhiskhan in #816
• fix(docs): correct link to docs.rs by @Mause in #819
• update arrow version in duckdb extension by @changhiskhan in #817
• Do not use lifetime on FileWriter by @eddyxu in #820
• Setting field ID after merging the fields. by @eddyxu in #821
• [Rust] Project schema by schema by @eddyxu in #822
• Merge batches from multiple datafiles in the same Fragment by @eddyxu in #815
• Update README.md by @jaichopra in #809
• [Python] Provide a private / distributed add column api in Python by @eddyxu in #823

New Contributors

• @Mause made their first contribution in #819

Full Changelog: v0.4.4...v0.4.5