Release v0.9.7 · lance-format/lance

What's Changed

feat: use lazy import for pylance dependencies by @yliang412 in #1741
chore: merge multiple ivf_pq indices by @eddyxu in #1815
feat: improve error message when schema mismatch occurs by @westonpace in #1817
refactor: do not leak precomputed partition map into IVF by @eddyxu in #1819
chore(rust): increase minimum rust version to 1.75 to prevent build issues by @changhiskhan in #1821
chore: bump object store version to 0.9 by @eddyxu in #1826
chore: bump half deps for HW acceleration in python by @eddyxu in #1827
refactor!: index stats to handle error and bunch of bugs by @eddyxu in #1828
chore: remove empty trait by @eddyxu in #1830
fix: spurious bug during compaction by @westonpace in #1829
chore: add E2E tests for torch training with nans by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1825
feat: roundtrip bfloat16 vectors to Lance format by @wjones127 in #1810
perf: cache loaded index metadata by @eddyxu in #1831
feat: expose custom PQ codebook in python APIs by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1838
chore: expose externally computed shuffle buffer to python by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1805
fix: function name by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1840
chore: unindexed fragment can handle mulitple deltas by @eddyxu in #1839
docs: code blocks in lance/read_and_write.html not showing by @martindurant in #1843
feat: optimize indices by @eddyxu in #1841
feat: support reading from delta indices by @eddyxu in #1845

Full Changelog: v0.9.6...v0.9.7