v5.0.0.dev1

Added

• Support for chunking to allow processing of very large datasets in blocking and prediction #2850
• New table_management functions to explicitly manage table caching #2848

Changed

• Internal probabilistic calculations now use Match Weights (log-odds) instead of Bayes Factors to improve numerical stability #2851

Deprecated

• bayes_factor_column_prefix setting is deprecated in favour of match_weight_column_prefix #2851

Removed

• Dropped support for Amazon Athena #2858
• Removed implicit caching mechanism and the use_cache parameter from database execution methods #2847
• Removed materialise_blocked_pairs argument from predict (blocked pairs are now always materialised) #2848
• Removed salting mechanism as it is no longer required for parallelisation in DuckDB #2849