🌪 0.51.0

Changes

✨ Features

• feat: expr -> operator conversion and use in layouts (#4388) @joseph-isaacs
• Feature: Add FixedSizeListBuilder (#4428) @connortsui20
• Add RepeatedScan in vortex-data python package (#4426) @delta003
• feat[fastlanes]: bitpacking can handle offset (#4382) @joseph-isaacs
• feat: prepared scan: accelerate successive range reads to a file (#4399) @danking
• Feature: Add optional git hooks scripts (#4414) @connortsui20
• Feature: Add FixedSizeListArray and FixedSizeListVTable (#4405) @connortsui20
• feat: teach Patches to fast-path search sorted on primitive array (#4416) @danking
• feat: teach DashMap to use a faster hasher (#4417) @danking
• feature: ValidityVTable functions are non fallible (#4412) @robert3005
• feat: teach patches a fast path for size one slice (#4415) @danking
• feat: Add BitOrd and Concat for Mask (#4407) @blaginin

🚀 Performance

• feat: expr -> operator conversion and use in layouts (#4388) @joseph-isaacs
• Replace Flume with Kanal (#4401) @AdamGS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: When coercing scalars make sure values don't exceed maximum value (#4381) @robert3005
• fix: make cargo test work by hiding Python code from Rust (#4431) @danking
• Fix: ListArray validates offsets min/max against max offset value (#4430) @robert3005
• fix[vortex-array]: propagate preferred type conversion to nested fields (#4390) @asubiotto

🧰 Maintenance

15 changes

• Chore: Validate Scalar::new for null and clean up DecimalScalar (#4435) @connortsui20
• fix(deps): update all patch updates to v1.0.173 (patch) (#4437) @renovate[bot]
• chore: better cast errors (#4436) @blaginin
• fix(deps): update all patch updates to v1.0.172 (patch) (#4421) @renovate[bot]
• chore: more README citations (#4434) @lwwmanning
• chore(deps): update plugin com.palantir.consistent-versions to v3.2.0 (#4433) @renovate[bot]
• chore[duckdb]: lifetime to object cache (#4409) @joseph-isaacs
• chore(deps): update plugin com.gradleup.shadow to v9.1.0 (#4423) @renovate[bot]
• Chore: fix valid expect (#4422) @connortsui20
• chore: remove gradle inferred processors and update gradle jvm links (#4396) @robert3005
• Chore: Rename TimeUnit variants to be more descriptive (#4410) @connortsui20
• Chore: Rename as_struct_opt to as_struct_fields_opt (#4411) @connortsui20
• Chore: rename bad todos (#4413) @connortsui20
• chore[bench]: enable duckdb metadata caching for parquet (#4375) @joseph-isaacs
• chore: Unify slice methods to use Range arguments (#4391) @blaginin