Release 1.8.0

What's Changed

• Accept a single path/glob string in file-format table functions by @robinskil in #287
• Per-format config + per-table OPTIONS for netcdf/atlas/bbf by @robinskil in #288
• Make config runtime-owned + per-format config & per-table OPTIONS by @robinskil in #289
• Make S3Config the single source of truth for object storage by @robinskil in #290
• Storage config owns data dirs + optional S3; NetCDF output to configured tmp by @robinskil in #291
• Slim data-lake: replace TableManager/FileManager/DataLake with native SessionContext by @robinskil in #292
• Add Delta Lake support (read_delta + STORED AS DELTA) by @robinskil in #293
• Add AWS Glue-style crawler for external tables by @robinskil in #294
• Sync 1.7.3 docs with code; fix stale config reference by @robinskil in #296
• Add beacon-cli: a Python terminal client for Beacon by @robinskil in #297
• Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE panic over external NetCDF/nd-array tables by @robinskil in #298
• Add admin REST endpoints for crawlers and external tables by @robinskil in #299
• Add PostgreSQL/MySQL external tables as DataFusion table providers by @robinskil in #300
• Enrich REST API OpenAPI documentation by @robinskil in #301
• Read legacy logical tables as external tables by @robinskil in #295
• Make table-config an admin-only REST endpoint by @robinskil in #302
• Add TypeScript/JavaScript SDK (clients/beacon-ts) by @robinskil in #303
• Add EXPLAIN ANALYZE pgjson endpoint (/api/explain-analyze-query) by @robinskil in #306
• Admin web UI, bundled into the Beacon server and Docker image by @robinskil in #307
• Accept .tif as well as .tiff for the dataset-schema endpoint by @robinskil in #308
• Auto-select broadcast-compatible dimensions for SELECT * on netCDF & Zarr by @robinskil in #310
• fix(nd-array): make SELECT * dimension auto-selection robust by @robinskil in #312
• Move beacon-iceberg into beacon-file-formats/ by @robinskil in #309
• Lance-backed managed table engine by @robinskil in #313
• Reduce dependencies and tune build for compile time by @robinskil in #314
• docs: align 1.7.3 docs with code and document missing features by @robinskil in #315
• Expand integration test suite and fix the bugs it surfaced by @robinskil in #317
• test: expand unit-test coverage + fix super_type_arrow bugs by @robinskil in #319
• Return a clear error for an output format on a non-SELECT statement by @robinskil in #318
• Authentication & role-based access control by @robinskil in #321
• docs: prepare 1.8.0 release by @robinskil in #320
• Admin UI: dataset file management, resumable uploads, RBAC UI, SQL autocomplete by @robinskil in #322

Full Changelog: v1.7.3...v1.8.0