Lance gains row-level schema evolution and distributed compaction, plus native CSV writing, precise/streaming sampling, and the option to ignore Delta Lake deletion vectors (with structured UDF logging, too).
Automatic encrypted backups with Rewind restore, network drive mounts, external USB storage and formatting on amd64, and GPU acceleration for apps.
New features include Bitbucket Cloud OAuth support, catalog actions to register/unregister entities, and a Scaffolder RepoOwnerPicker for selecting repo owners.
WEBJS adds a full Polls API with events, plus a new message.ack.group event for group messages.
Flink 1.20 support lands alongside a new Python Milvus sink, rounding out full Milvus integration.
New FTRL-based spam classifier, native full‑text search for Postgres/MySQL, a Meilisearch backend, updated IMAP keywords/attributes, and a spam‑training privacy option.
Big upgrade: expanded gRPC (more queries, highlight/sort, bulk in SMILE/CBOR/YAML with pluggable interceptors), faster aggregations via bulk collectors and preaggregated collectRange, and pull-based ingestion gets async flush, lag metrics, and flexible message mappers.
Big drops: buffer utilization metrics for sources/transforms, a trace-to-log transform, and end-to-end acks in the blackhole sink.
Now supports image preview with split/side‑by‑side diffing, a redesigned Workspace Rules panel, and CLI QoL like -m on but describe plus a simplified review publish.
Big upgrade: extension hooks (commands panel, lifecycle, system docs) with security warnings, MCP Resources and dynamic tool updates, default message bus integration, fuzzy settings search, and user‑scoped extension settings.