v11.0.0-beta.14

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: per value support for fixed-length packed structs by @morales-t-netflix in #7714
• feat(python): expose frozen memtable metrics in memtable_stats by @hamersaw in #8526
• feat(compaction): support excluding fragments from planning by @everySympathy in #8532

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: validate merge schema field bindings by @wkalt in #7703
• fix(index): align scalar index field type support by @ddupg in #7966
• fix: handle reordered sources in indexed merge insert by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8509
• fix(index): make IVF buffer setter safe by @Xuanwo in #8602
• fix(java): narrow JNI byte slice casts by @Xuanwo in #8603
• fix(dataset): isolate wrapped additional base stores by @BubbleCal in #8609

Documentation 📚

• docs: avoid mint wording in stable row id docs by @Xuanwo in #8425

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf(index): use dot distance for cosine in FlatFloatStorage by @clearlove10-c in #7777
• perf(filtered-read): prune non-candidate fragment metadata by @BubbleCal in #8587

Other Changes

• refactor: extract the shared manifest walk behind tracked_files by @LuciferYang in #8449

Full Changelog: v11.0.0-beta.13...v11.0.0-beta.14