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Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

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Features

  • Fast vector search of billions of vectors in milliseconds
  • Comprehensive search: vector similarity, full‑text, and SQL
  • Multimodal support for text, images, video, point clouds, etc.
  • Zero‑copy storage with automatic versioning and GPU‑accelerated indexing

Recent releases

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python-v0.36.0-beta.0 Mixed

Distributed metrics + Wheels + Skill plugins

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v0.33.0-beta.0 Mixed

Distributed metrics + compat wheels + skill refs

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python-v0.35.0-beta.2 Mixed

Python enhancements and bug fixes

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v0.32.0-beta.2 Mixed

Python API + Reranker + FTS tokenization

python-v0.35.0-beta.0 Breaking risk

Updates 🎉 New Features, feat, and 🐛 Bug Fixes across a mixed release.

Full changelog

🛠 Breaking Changes

  • feat(python)!: align Permutation.with_format("torch") with HuggingFace set_format("torch") by @omkar-334 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3369

🎉 New Features

  • feat: add an elastic dataloader as an iterable dataset by @westonpace in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3509
  • feat: support date, datetime, bytes, and Decimal literals in expr builder by @lakshjain7 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3235
  • feat(python)!: align Permutation.with_format("torch") with HuggingFace set_format("torch") by @omkar-334 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3369
  • feat: add get_lsm_write_spec to read the installed LSM write spec by @hamersaw in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3631
  • feat: add Tencent COS and GooseFS object store support via new feature flags by @XuQianJin-Stars in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3526
  • feat: expose Lance metrics via OpenTelemetry in Python and Node by @wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3609

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • fix: handle empty/wrong-length vectors returned by embedding functions by @Spectual in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3192
  • fix(python): resolve Ollama embedding serialization error in create_table by @Missing-Identity in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3583
  • fix(python): flatten_columns raises when flatten=False by @PranavAchar01 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3629
  • fix: avoid manifest writes for read-only directory namespace opens by @Xuanwo in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3635

🔧 Build and CI

  • ci: add CODEOWNERS file for sensitive paths by @octo-patch in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3312

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