Release v4.0.0-beta.1 · lance-format/lance

What's Changed

feat: compress complex all null by @yingjianwu98 in #4990
feat(core): add Levenshtein-based suggestions to not-found errors in schema by @HemantSudarshan in #5976
feat: add URI-based commit support to Java SDK by @hamersaw in #5978
fix: concurrent read and write to directory namespace by @jackye1995 in #5983
feat: add ability to pass custom headers to objectstore requests by @hamersaw in #5989
feat: add DeleteResult with num_deleted_rows by @wkalt in #6001
feat: introduce IncompatibleTransaction error by @wjones127 in #6003

fix(encoding): handle empty rows in variable packed struct decode by @Xuanwo in #5995
fix: various bugs to namespace access by @jackye1995 in #5996
fix: set namespace commit handler for LanceDataset.commit by @jackye1995 in #6002
fix: fast_search limits full text search to indexed fragments by @BubbleCal in #6006
fix: fast_search should ignore any unindexed data for vector search by @BubbleCal in #6007
fix: correctly calculate max visible level when a list has no def by @westonpace in #6008
fix: make overwrites retryable instead of compatible by @jackye1995 in #6014

docs: expand the FTS index doc explaining the training process and multiple partitions by @westonpace in #5988
docs: clarify v2.2 nested drop rollback risk by @Xuanwo in #5999

perf: speed up format 2.2 300% by spawning structural decode batch tasks by @Xuanwo in #5982

refactor: use dict entries and encoded size instead of cardinality for dict decision by @Xuanwo in #5891

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