0.61.0

Released 2026-03-03 — GitHub Release

Changes

⚠️ Breaks

• break: zip arg (mask, true, false) (#6766) @joseph-isaacs

• break: remove all compute public functions (#6752) @joseph-isaacs

• clean up numeric compute (#6593) @joseph-isaacs

• Remove deprecated to_arrow compute (#6730) @gatesn

• Remove &dyn Array call sites (#6725) @gatesn

• Make ExecutionArgs a dyn trait (#6715) @gatesn

• Inline visitor vtable to ArrayVTable (#6700) @gatesn

• Inline BaseArrayVTable (#6697) @gatesn

✨ Features

• rwlock instead of mutex around encoding ids (#6720) @danking

• Make the constant metadata a Scalar (#6751) @connortsui20

• feat: remove to canonical p2 (#6742) @joseph-isaacs

• Improve benchmark output formatting (#6744) @AdamGS

• vortex read at for pooled cuda reads (#6675) @onursatici

🚀 Performance

• unsafe Scalar::struct_unchecked in scalar_at vtable (#6741) @palaska

• Implement BetweenReduceRule for ConstantArray (#6695) @robert3005

• Remove unnecessary to_canonical in DictArray::take (#6686) @palaska

• Eliminate redundant decompressions in VarBinArray canonicalization (#6692) @palaska

• Remove unnecessary to_canonical in ChunkedArray filter_indices (#6688) @palaska

• separate in_memory vs file coalescing config (#6690) @onursatici

• Remove to_canonical from MaskedArray::take (#6689) @palaska

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make sequence metadata in-memory + clean up (#6759) @connortsui20

• fix: CUDA bitpacking bench build (#6750) @0ax1

• fix[util]: add balanced reduce iterator (#6737) @joseph-isaacs

• Fix S3 globbing for duckdbfs with httplib (#6709) @myrrc

• Fix old extension scalar logic (#6701) @connortsui20

📖 Documentation

• VTable Unification Docs (#6735) @gatesn

🧰 Maintenance

22 changes

• chore: replace Buffer::copy_from with Buffer::from_iter for improved performance (#6749) @SYaoJun

• Remove unused BitView (#6763) @gatesn

• Remove sparse metadata prost wrapper (#6761) @connortsui20

• Parallelize slow CUDA tests (#6746) @joseph-isaacs

• Add explain feature to DF benchmarks (#6683) @AdamGS

• chore: build, test and lint all CUDA crates on CI (#6743) @0ax1

• test: Enhance tests for RLE and PCO casting: add assertions for dtype… (#6726) @SYaoJun

• chore: remove to_canonical types p1 (#6738) @joseph-isaacs

• chore(deps): update dependency ray to v2.54.0 [security] (#6633) @renovate[bot]

• fix(deps): update junit-framework monorepo to v6.0.3 (#6733) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.44.0 (#6734) @renovate[bot]

• fix(deps): update dependency ch.qos.logback:logback-classic to v1.5.32 (#6732) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update rust crate moka to v0.12.14 (#6731) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update all patch updates (#6728) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update rust crate wasm-bindgen-futures to v0.4.64 (#6729) @renovate[bot]

• Some adjustments to methods on ExtDTypeRef (#6716) @connortsui20

• chore: Update .clang-tidy to check all C++ source files (#6711) @SYaoJun

• chore: vortex-cuda cleanups (#6703) @0ax1

• Extension Scalar Cleanup (#6699) @connortsui20

• Update public-api (#6698) @gatesn

• Simplify ScalarFnPlugin (#6687) @gatesn

• Remove code for old benchmarks website (#6684) @AdamGS