diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index 585abf5ee..cbfefc83d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        msrv: ["1.91.0"] # This should match up with rust-version in Cargo.toml
+        msrv: ["1.94.0"] # This should match up with rust-version in Cargo.toml
     env:
       # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
       CC: clang-18
@@ -308,40 +308,9 @@ jobs:
           # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
           # caches to the creating ref.
           save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
-      - name: Downgrade  dependencies
-        # These packages have newer requirements for MSRV
-        run: |
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-bedrockruntime --precise 1.77.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-dynamodb --precise 1.68.0
-          cargo update -p aws-config --precise 1.6.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-kms --precise 1.63.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-s3 --precise 1.79.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-sso --precise 1.62.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-ssooidc --precise 1.63.0
-          cargo update -p aws-sdk-sts --precise 1.63.0
-          # aws-runtime/sigv4/credential-types/types and the aws-smithy-*
-          # crates bumped their MSRV to 1.91.1 in late 2026; pin to the last
-          # 1.91.0-compatible versions. The order matters — each downgrade
-          # only succeeds once everything that still pins it at a higher
-          # version has itself been downgraded.
-          cargo update -p aws-runtime --precise 1.5.12
-          cargo update -p aws-types --precise 1.3.9
-          cargo update -p aws-sigv4 --precise 1.3.5
-          cargo update -p aws-credential-types --precise 1.2.8
-          # aws-smithy-checksums must stay at or above 0.63.13: OpenDAL's S3
-          # service needs crc-fast ~1.9, and older releases pin it to ~1.3.
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-checksums --precise 0.63.13
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-runtime --precise 1.9.3
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-http --precise 0.62.6
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-eventstream --precise 0.60.14
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-http-client --precise 1.1.3
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-observability --precise 0.1.4
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-query --precise 0.60.8
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-runtime-api --precise 1.9.3
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-async --precise 1.2.7
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-types --precise 1.3.6
-          cargo update -p aws-smithy-xml --precise 0.60.11
-          cargo update -p home --precise 0.5.9
+      - name: Downgrade dependencies
+        # aws-smithy-types 1.6.1+ requires rustc 1.94.1
+        run: cargo update -p aws-smithy-types --precise 1.5.0
       - name: cargo +${{ matrix.msrv }} check
         env:
           RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN: ${{ matrix.msrv }}
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5bcd4c9a3..b65784373 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3588,8 +3588,8 @@ checksum = "42703706b716c37f96a77aea830392ad231f44c9e9a67872fa5548707e11b11c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fsst"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "rand 0.9.5",
@@ -5143,8 +5143,8 @@ checksum = "e037a2e1d8d5fdbd49b16a4ea09d5d6401c1f29eca5ff29d03d3824dba16256a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "arrow",
@@ -5217,8 +5217,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-arrow"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -5240,7 +5240,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-arrow-scalar"
 version = "58.0.0"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -5254,7 +5254,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-arrow-stats"
 version = "58.0.0"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
@@ -5263,8 +5263,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-bitpacking"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrayref",
  "crunchy",
@@ -5274,8 +5274,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-core"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -5312,8 +5312,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-datafusion"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5344,8 +5344,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-datagen"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5362,8 +5362,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-derive"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -5372,8 +5372,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-encoding"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-arith",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5406,8 +5406,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-file"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-arith",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5439,8 +5439,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-geo"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "datafusion",
  "geo-traits",
@@ -5454,8 +5454,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-index"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "arrow",
@@ -5526,8 +5526,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-index-core"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
@@ -5550,8 +5550,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-io"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5593,8 +5593,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-linalg"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
@@ -5608,8 +5608,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-namespace"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "async-trait",
@@ -5623,8 +5623,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-namespace-impls"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "arrow",
@@ -5678,8 +5678,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-select"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -5693,8 +5693,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-table"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -5734,8 +5734,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-testing"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
@@ -5748,8 +5748,8 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-tokenizer"
-version = "13.1.0-beta.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v13.1.0-beta.1#e5a3553b1699a7062ff7afe4ee268d596bbf2e0d"
+version = "14.0.0-beta.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v14.0.0-beta.1#ae2903729f02ec8e519a4e53797a052393f25ee3"
 dependencies = [
  "frostem",
  "icu_segmenter",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 183e5f4f7..513973489 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,23 +10,23 @@ repository = "https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb"
 description = "Serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications"
 keywords = ["lancedb", "lance", "database", "vector", "search"]
 categories = ["database-implementations"]
-rust-version = "1.91.0"
+rust-version = "1.94.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-lance = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-core = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datagen = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-file = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-io = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-index = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-linalg = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-table = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-testing = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-encoding = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-arrow = { "version" = "=13.1.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v13.1.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-core = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datagen = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-file = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-io = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-index = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-linalg = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", default-features = false, "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-table = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-testing = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-encoding = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-arrow = { "version" = "=14.0.0-beta.1", "tag" = "v14.0.0-beta.1", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
 lancedb = { path = "rust/lancedb", default-features = false }
 ahash = "0.8"
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
index efc956a29..52c6f84c8 100644
--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <arrow.version>15.0.0</arrow.version>
-        <lance-core.version>13.1.0-beta.1</lance-core.version>
+        <lance-core.version>14.0.0-beta.1</lance-core.version>
         <spotless.skip>false</spotless.skip>
         <spotless.version>2.30.0</spotless.version>
         <spotless.java.googlejavaformat.version>1.7</spotless.java.googlejavaformat.version>
diff --git a/python/Cargo.toml b/python/Cargo.toml
index b2d398d6c..e00666378 100644
--- a/python/Cargo.toml
+++ b/python/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 repository.workspace = true
 keywords.workspace = true
 categories.workspace = true
-rust-version = "1.91.0"
+rust-version = "1.94.0"
 
 [lib]
 name = "_lancedb"