lancedb

🛠 Breaking Changes

• fix: support nested field paths in native index creation by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3408

🎉 New Features

• feat(nodejs): add namespace management methods on Connection by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3371
• feat(nodejs): expose connectNamespace for namespace-backed connections by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3383
• feat(nodejs): add Scannable primitive for streaming ingestion by @Its-Tanay in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3271
• feat(python): support bytes in lit() expressions by @shenganzhang in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3387
• feat(nodejs): add order_by method to Query by @ddupg in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3123
• feat: support setting unenforced primary key by @touch-of-grey in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3394
• feat: support setting LSM write spec for a table by @touch-of-grey in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3396
• feat(python): add public take_offsets method on Permutation by @geruh in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3375
• feat(python): align to_pandas pandas kwargs by @BubbleCal in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3397
• feat(nodejs): add progress to Table.add by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3398
• feat(nodejs): add renameTable on Connection by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3386
• feat(rust): support DataFusion Expr for table row deletions by @yuvalif in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3415
• feat(remote): send read freshness headers for remote table consistency by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3439

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(python): invalid namespace mode/behavior was silently ignored, now raises ValueError by @brendanclement in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3388
• fix(rust): map lance-namespace errors to TableNotFound / TableAlreadyExists by @justinrmiller in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3385
• fix(rust): match embedding scannable columns by name by @westonpace in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3410
• fix: support nested field paths in native index creation by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3408
• fix: return canonical nested index paths by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3413
• fix(python): check all table pages for db membership by @pragnyanramtha in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3395
• fix(python): drop version from Table repr by @mackrorysd in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3411
• fix: discover nested vector columns by default by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3423
• fix(python): route sync BaseQueryBuilder.to_batches through async path by @justinrmiller in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3425
• fix: canonicalize remote nested field paths by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3430
• fix: use releases API in check_lance_release.py by @wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3427
• fix(rerankers): inverted scores and incorrect missing-FTS penalty in LinearCombinationReranker by @devteamaegis in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3437
• fix: remove primary key constraint from MemWAL bucket sharding by @jackye1995 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3435
• fix: allow appending arrow.json data into lance.json tables by @wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3429

📚 Documentation

• docs: document CI preflight requirements by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3409
• docs: add missing Python index classes to API reference by @singhvishalkr in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3392
• docs: document Python uv agent workflow by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3417
• docs: clarify PR title requirement for agents by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3433

🔧 Build and CI

• ci(nodejs): switch from npm to pnpm 11 by @wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3373
• ci: bump version after 0.29 release by @westonpace in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3378