v9.0.0-beta.20

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: compress RLE child buffers by @Xuanwo in #7663
• feat(java): expose MemWAL shard delete by @hamersaw in #7688
• feat(java): forward table properties to declareTable on namespace create by @puchengy in #7711

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix(transaction): reduce redundant code for new_version calculations by @yangshangqing95 in #6589
• fix: late-materialize blob columns read as binary by @wkalt in #7593
• fix(lance-io): drop reservation when future is cancelled by @valkum in #7638
• fix: return error instead of panicking on values too wide for miniblock by @zhangyue19921010 in #7650
• fix(index): batch IVF streaming partition search off the CPU pool by @a-agmon in #7680
• fix(encoding): tolerate legacy RLE chunks that overflow the declared value count by @jackye1995 in #7708

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf(dataset): reuse session-cached manifest on checkout by @zhangyue19921010 in #7661

Other Changes

• refactor(java): rename WriteDatasetBuilder.tableProperties to properties by @puchengy in #7715

Full Changelog: v9.0.0-beta.19...v9.0.0-beta.20