Release 1.9.0

See https://docs.lamin.ai/changelog/2025#db-1-9-0

What's Changed

• ⚡️ Implement performant synchronization for directories by @Koncopd in #2933
• 🐛 Fix index hash calculation for Schema by @sunnyosun in #2932
• 🐛 Fix creation of a Schema with is_type=True by @sunnyosun in #2937
• ✨ Get CELLxGENE Schema & ✨ enable curation of Feature typed indices by @Zethson in #2878
• ♻️ More efficient tests cleanup by @sunnyosun in #2938
• 🐛 Fix deletion of cloud transfer local instance by @Zethson in #2928
• ⬆️ Upgrade wetlab by @Zethson in #2940
• 📝 Add an actual README by @falexwolf in #2943
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup to fix UPath.to_url by @Koncopd in #2945
• 📝 Polish README and artifact.describe() by @falexwolf in #2946
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup and bionty by @Koncopd in #2947
• ⚡️ Speed up lamin connect by @falexwolf in #2948
• ♻️ Refactor lamin connect by @falexwolf in #2949
• ✨ Add lamin annotate, enable string-based annotation with non-ulabels, overhaul CLI docs by @falexwolf in #2952
• 🩹 Order storages by root length when searching on artifact.save() by @Koncopd in #2954
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup by @Koncopd in #2955
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup by @Koncopd in #2956
• ⚡️ Speed up describe() by 6x by @falexwolf in #2953
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup by @Koncopd in #2959
• ♻️ Fix FutureWarning in CanCurate by @Zethson in #2950
• 🚸 Expose storage, branch, and space in the Artifact constructor by @falexwolf in #2960
• 🚸 Improve UX of working in keep-artifacts-local mode by @falexwolf in #2961
• 🚸 Enable ln.track() and ln.finish() for notebooks running on remote servers by @falexwolf in #2962
• 📝 Fix SpatialDataCurator docstring by @sunnyosun in #2963
• ♻️ Improve CELLxGENE compatibility by @Zethson in #2941
• 📝 Refactor curate guide by @sunnyosun in #2957
• 🎨 Polish curate guide by @Zethson in #2964
• ⬆️ Upgrade anndata to 0.12.0 by @Koncopd in #2965

Full Changelog: 1.8.0...1.9.0