v0.10.18-beta.1

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• feat: don't load all list items before returning a batch by @westonpace in #2262
• feat(java): support dataset/fragment scan with string filter, columns filter by @LuQQiu in #2266
• feat: support storage options in write fragments by @eddyxu in #2289
• feat: ray sink takes storage options parameter by @eddyxu in #2293
• feat(python): support auto conversion between fixed size int array to pytorch tensor by @eddyxu in #2294
• feat: add experimental limit variables for GCS by @wjones127 in #2295
• feat: add support for large string & large binary to the v2 encoder & decoder by @westonpace in #2297
• feat: hamming distance by @eddyxu in #2110

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: fix some corner cases that can arise in v2 list encoding by @westonpace in #2291
• fix: flush after writing pages so that we don't yield to the user with in-progress writes by @westonpace in #2298
• fix: fix a panic that could happen when scanning only the row id from fragment with deleted rows by @westonpace in #2302

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf: re-enable late materialization on full scans by @westonpace in #2290

Other Changes

• perf: do HNSW search with threads of CPU runtime by @BubbleCal in #2251

New Contributors

• @kafonek made their first contribution in #2281

Full Changelog: v0.10.17...v0.10.18-beta.1