Release 2.0.0

See https://docs.lamin.ai/changelog/2026#db-2-0-0

What's Changed

• 📝 Fix docs by @falexwolf in #3385
• ✨ Add feature.dtype_as_object by @sunnyosun in #3386
• 📝 README v5.2 by @falexwolf in #3387
• ✅ Test connecting without a default instance by @Koncopd in #3388
• ✅ Test db token expiartion by @Koncopd in #3391
• 🎨 Also accept array when evaluating list values by @sunnyosun in #3392
• 🔧 Add .vitessce.json to loaders by @namsaraeva in #3393
• 🔧 Rename zarr extra to zarr_v2 by @Koncopd in #3390
• 🐛 Account for size 0 environments by @falexwolf in #3394
• ♻️ Better re-use Django's ObjectDoesNotExist and MultipleObjectsReturned by @falexwolf in #3396
• 💄 Sort features in describe() by @falexwolf in #3397
• 📝 Improve the Artifact.replace() docs by @falexwolf in #3398
• 📝 Polish FAQ doc on trashing and archiving by @falexwolf in #3400
• ✅ Test DbWriteLog rework by @Koncopd in #3399
• 🚚 Deprecate @ln.tracked() in favor of @ln.step() by @falexwolf in #3401
• ✨ Enable managing workflows via @ln.flow() and @ln.step() by @falexwolf in #3402
• ✨ Track shell scripts by @falexwolf in #3403
• ✅ Test use hstore in DbWrite triggers to compute diffs on update by @Koncopd in #3404
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup by @Koncopd in #3407
• ⬆️ Bump anndata upper bound by @Koncopd in #3409
• 🚸 Raise a clear error if calling CanCurate and similar registry class methods on objects by @falexwolf in #3411
• 📝 Improve the Space document by @falexwolf in #3412
• ⬆️ Bump fsspec packages upper bound by @Koncopd in #3413
• 📝 Render return type annotations of Artifact.open() in docs by @falexwolf in #3414
• 🚚 Rename rest-hub to backend by @fredericenard in #3410
• 🔥 Remove tracking from collection.artifacts.all() by @Koncopd in #3405
• 🏗️ Introduce Feature._dtype_str to hold a serialization that links object types (Record + ULabel) based on their uid instead of their name and type hierarchy by @falexwolf in #3416
• 🏗️ Use the new feature._dtype_str instead of feature.dtype by @falexwolf in #3418
• 🔥 Remove the API components that were deprecated upon transitioning from LaminDB v0 to v1 by @falexwolf in #3419
• 🚚 Better names for the ManyToMany fields for the annotating runs and artifacts of an Artifact by @falexwolf in #3420
• 🚚 Swap accessor names for SchemaComponent links, consistent ManyToMany field names for RecordRecord links by @falexwolf in #3421
• 🗃️ Migrate the Feature and Schema database tables to LaminDB v2 by @falexwolf in #3422
• 🚚 Rename Artifact.feature_sets to Artifact.schemas by @falexwolf in #3423
• 🗃️ Rename SQLRecord._branch_code to SQLRecord.branch_id and remove feature_ref_is_name and label_ref_is_name fields from link models by @falexwolf in #3424
• 💚 Fix tests setup by @Koncopd in #3426
• 🐛 Fix broken imports from hubmodule by @fredericenard in #3428
• ♻️ Refactor require_organism by @sunnyosun in #3429
• ♻️ Refactor data migration from dtype to _dtype_str by @falexwolf in #3431
• 🗃️ Rename Artifact._subsequent_runs to Artifact.recreating_runs and Run._recreated_artifacts to Run.recreated_artifacts by @falexwolf in #3432
• 👷 Ensure wetlab version 2.0a1 is installed by @falexwolf in #3433
• ✅ Restore check_lamin_dev, add defensive artifact cleanup by @Koncopd in #3434
• ✨ Allow passing _key_is_virtual on Artifact creation by @Koncopd in #3438
• 🗃️ Rename IsVersioned.version to IsVersioned.version_tag, Transform.type to Transform.kind, FeatureValue to JsonValue, BaseBlock.type to BaseBlock.kind, delete Transform._template and Run._logfile by @falexwolf in #3435
• 🗃️ Bionty v2 migrations by @sunnyosun in #3430
• ✅ Test user updates by @Koncopd in #3437
• 👷 Reflect permission utils refactoring in noxfile by @falexwolf in #3441
• 🚸 Add description argument to Transform.from_git() by @falexwolf in #3440
• 🗃️ Simplify Transform by @falexwolf in #3442
• 🗃️ Migrate most auxiliary fields to SQL columns by @falexwolf in #3443
• ♻️ Edits for noxfile by @Koncopd in #3444
• 🗃️ Refactor _storage_completed mechanism and remove unique constraints on type names by @falexwolf in #3445
• 🚸 More release preparations: backward compat for artifact queries by feature_sets, defensive migration by @falexwolf in #3448
• 🎨 Re-encode biorecord uid to 14 chars by @sunnyosun in #3450
• ♻️ Refactor dtype data migration to raw SQL to avoid inexistent branch_id by @falexwolf in #3449
• Fix create from source by @sunnyosun in #3451
• 🗃️ Rename RootBlock to Block with a column key akin to Artifact and Transform by @falexwolf in #3452
• ⚡️ Squash migrations and re-build SQLite init database by @falexwolf in #3453

Full Changelog: 1.17.0...2.0.0