v13.0.0-beta.3

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• perf(encoding)!: initialize only the page metadata a read will touch by @Ali2Arslan in #7465

New Features 🎉

• feat(format): specify carried-column storage and allow carrying a keyed column by @vivek-bharathan in #8856
• feat(core): define mapping readers with ordered compaction support by @LuQQiu in #9106
• feat(mem_wal): cross-column FTS on the fresh tier by @hamersaw in #9172

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: collect unreferenced data newer than retained manifests by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8944
• fix(core): parse fixed-offset timezones in timestamp logical types by @jackylee-ch in #8950
• fix(python): complete some straightforward API annotations by @jonasdedden in #8954
• fix(encoding): preserve special slots when recording validity by @Xuanwo in #9268

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf(linalg): restore u8 scalar L2 performance by @LeoReeYang in #9259

Other Changes

• refactor(fts): make HybridCompoundQueryExec public by @hamersaw in #9166

Full Changelog: v13.0.0-beta.2...v13.0.0-beta.3