0.81.0

Released 2026-07-23 — GitHub Release

What’s Changed

  • Add file-level user metadata by @mprammer in https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/8740

  • refactor[array]: serialization context filter by ids (not whole registry) by @joseph-isaacs in https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/8897

  • StructReader::partition_expr doesn’t hold lock if the expression is being newly partitioned by @robert3005 in https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/8892

  • Add UnionArray by @connortsui20 in https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/8834

  • Don’t emit STB_UNIQUE symbols in GCC for vortex-duckdb by @myrrc in https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/8913

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/compare/0.80.0…0.81.0