chore: update lance dependency to v2.0.0-beta.6

2026-06-03 12:20:40 +00:00 · 2026-01-09 23:54:25 +00:00
51 changed files with 430 additions and 717 deletions
--- a/.bumpversion.toml
+++ b/.bumpversion.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "0.24.1"
+current_version = "0.23.1"
 parse = """(?x)
    (?P<major>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
    (?P<minor>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
--- a/.github/workflows/codex-update-lance-dependency.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codex-update-lance-dependency.yml
@@ -75,13 +75,6 @@ jobs:
          VERSION="${VERSION#v}"
          BRANCH_NAME="codex/update-lance-${VERSION//[^a-zA-Z0-9]/-}"

-          # Use "chore" for beta/rc versions, "feat" for stable releases
-          if [[ "${VERSION}" == *beta* ]] || [[ "${VERSION}" == *rc* ]]; then
-            COMMIT_TYPE="chore"
-          else
-            COMMIT_TYPE="feat"
-          fi
-
          cat <<EOF >/tmp/codex-prompt.txt
          You are running inside the lancedb repository on a GitHub Actions runner. Update the Lance dependency to version ${VERSION} and prepare a pull request for maintainers to review.

@@ -91,10 +84,10 @@ jobs:
          3. After clippy succeeds, run "cargo fmt --all" to format the workspace.
          4. Ensure the repository is clean except for intentional changes. Inspect "git status --short" and "git diff" to confirm the dependency update and any required fixes.
          5. Create and switch to a new branch named "${BRANCH_NAME}" (replace any duplicated hyphens if necessary).
-          6. Stage all relevant files with "git add -A". Commit using the message "${COMMIT_TYPE}: update lance dependency to v${VERSION}".
+          6. Stage all relevant files with "git add -A". Commit using the message "chore: update lance dependency to v${VERSION}".
          7. Push the branch to origin. If the branch already exists, force-push your changes.
          8. env "GH_TOKEN" is available, use "gh" tools for github related operations like creating pull request.
-          9. Create a pull request targeting "main" with title "${COMMIT_TYPE}: update lance dependency to v${VERSION}". First, write the PR body to /tmp/pr-body.md using a heredoc (cat <<'EOF' > /tmp/pr-body.md). The body should summarize the dependency bump, clippy/fmt verification, and link the triggering tag (${TAG}). Then run "gh pr create --body-file /tmp/pr-body.md".
+          9. Create a pull request targeting "main" with title "chore: update lance dependency to v${VERSION}". In the body, summarize the dependency bump, clippy/fmt verification, and link the triggering tag (${TAG}).
          10. After creating the PR, display the PR URL, "git status --short", and a concise summary of the commands run and their results.

          Constraints:
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo fmt --all -- --check
      - name: Run clippy
        run: cargo clippy --profile ci --workspace --tests --all-features -- -D warnings
-      - name: Run clippy (without remote feature)
-        run: cargo clippy --profile ci --workspace --tests -- -D warnings

  build-no-lock:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -169,13 +167,13 @@ jobs:
      - name: Build
        run: |
          $env:VCPKG_ROOT = $env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT
-          cargo build --profile ci --features aws,remote --tests --locked --target ${{ matrix.target }}
+          cargo build --profile ci --features remote --tests --locked --target ${{ matrix.target }}
      - name: Run tests
        # Can only run tests when target matches host
        if: ${{ matrix.target == 'x86_64-pc-windows-msvc' }}
        run: |
          $env:VCPKG_ROOT = $env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT
-          cargo test --profile ci --features aws,remote --locked
+          cargo test --profile ci --features remote --locked

  msrv:
    # Check the minimum supported Rust version
@@ -183,7 +181,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        msrv: ["1.88.0"] # This should match up with rust-version in Cargo.toml
+        msrv: ["1.78.0"] # This should match up with rust-version in Cargo.toml
    env:
      # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
      CC: clang-18
@@ -214,6 +212,4 @@ jobs:
          cargo update -p aws-sdk-sts --precise 1.51.0
          cargo update -p home --precise 0.5.9
      - name: cargo +${{ matrix.msrv }} check
-        env:
-          RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN: ${{ matrix.msrv }}
        run: cargo check --profile ci --workspace --tests --benches --all-features
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
-version = 4
+version = 3

 [[package]]
 name = "adler2"
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ checksum = "7c02d123df017efcdfbd739ef81735b36c5ba83ec3c59c80a9d7ecc718f92e50"

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2a2b10dcb159faf30d3f81f6d56c1211a5bea2ca424eabe477648a44b993320e"
+checksum = "cb372a7cbcac02a35d3fb7b3fc1f969ec078e871f9bb899bf00a2e1809bec8a3"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-arith",
 "arrow-array",
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-arith"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "288015089e7931843c80ed4032c5274f02b37bcb720c4a42096d50b390e70372"
+checksum = "0f377dcd19e440174596d83deb49cd724886d91060c07fec4f67014ef9d54049"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -217,9 +217,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-array"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "65ca404ea6191e06bf30956394173337fa9c35f445bd447fe6c21ab944e1a23c"
+checksum = "a23eaff85a44e9fa914660fb0d0bb00b79c4a3d888b5334adb3ea4330c84f002"
 dependencies = [
 "ahash",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-buffer"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "36356383099be0151dacc4245309895f16ba7917d79bdb71a7148659c9206c56"
+checksum = "a2819d893750cb3380ab31ebdc8c68874dd4429f90fd09180f3c93538bd21626"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "half",
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-cast"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9c8e372ed52bd4ee88cc1e6c3859aa7ecea204158ac640b10e187936e7e87074"
+checksum = "e3d131abb183f80c450d4591dc784f8d7750c50c6e2bc3fcaad148afc8361271"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -270,9 +270,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-csv"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8e4100b729fe656f2e4fb32bc5884f14acf9118d4ad532b7b33c1132e4dce896"
+checksum = "2275877a0e5e7e7c76954669366c2aa1a829e340ab1f612e647507860906fb6b"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-cast",
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-data"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bf87f4ff5fc13290aa47e499a8b669a82c5977c6a1fedce22c7f542c1fd5a597"
+checksum = "05738f3d42cb922b9096f7786f606fcb8669260c2640df8490533bb2fa38c9d3"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-buffer",
 "arrow-schema",
@@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-ipc"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "eb3ca63edd2073fcb42ba112f8ae165df1de935627ead6e203d07c99445f2081"
+checksum = "3d09446e8076c4b3f235603d9ea7c5494e73d441b01cd61fb33d7254c11964b3"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -314,9 +314,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-json"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a36b2332559d3310ebe3e173f75b29989b4412df4029a26a30cc3f7da0869297"
+checksum = "371ffd66fa77f71d7628c63f209c9ca5341081051aa32f9c8020feb0def787c0"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-ord"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "13c4e0530272ca755d6814218dffd04425c5b7854b87fa741d5ff848bf50aa39"
+checksum = "cbc94fc7adec5d1ba9e8cd1b1e8d6f72423b33fe978bf1f46d970fafab787521"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -351,9 +351,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-pyarrow"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f45c7989cb70214b2f362eaa10266d15e1a433692f2ea1514018be3aace679f4"
+checksum = "fbd810e3997bae72f58cda57231ccb0a2fda07911ca1b0a5718cbf9379abb297"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-data",
@@ -363,9 +363,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-row"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b07f52788744cc71c4628567ad834cadbaeb9f09026ff1d7a4120f69edf7abd3"
+checksum = "169676f317157dc079cc5def6354d16db63d8861d61046d2f3883268ced6f99f"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -376,9 +376,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-schema"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6bb63203e8e0e54b288d0d8043ca8fa1013820822a27692ef1b78a977d879f2c"
+checksum = "d27609cd7dd45f006abae27995c2729ef6f4b9361cde1ddd019dc31a5aa017e0"
 dependencies = [
 "bitflags 2.9.4",
 "serde_core",
@@ -387,9 +387,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-select"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c96d8a1c180b44ecf2e66c9a2f2bbcb8b1b6f14e165ce46ac8bde211a363411b"
+checksum = "ae980d021879ea119dd6e2a13912d81e64abed372d53163e804dfe84639d8010"
 dependencies = [
 "ahash",
 "arrow-array",
@@ -401,9 +401,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-string"
-version = "57.2.0"
+version = "57.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a8ad6a81add9d3ea30bf8374ee8329992c7fd246ffd8b7e2f48a3cea5aa0cc9a"
+checksum = "cf35e8ef49dcf0c5f6d175edee6b8af7b45611805333129c541a8b89a0fc0534"
 dependencies = [
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 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -2446,7 +2446,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "itertools 0.14.0",
 "parking_lot",
 "paste",
- "petgraph",
+ "petgraph 0.8.3",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -3072,8 +3072,8 @@ checksum = "42703706b716c37f96a77aea830392ad231f44c9e9a67872fa5548707e11b11c"

 [[package]]
 name = "fsst"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "rand 0.9.2",
@@ -4404,8 +4404,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lance"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
 "arrow-arith",
@@ -4470,8 +4470,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lance-arrow"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -4490,8 +4490,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lance-bitpacking"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrayref",
 "paste",
@@ -4500,8 +4500,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lance-core"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-buffer",
@@ -4538,8 +4538,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
 "arrow-array",
@@ -4569,8 +4569,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
 "arrow-array",
@@ -4588,8 +4588,8 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
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 "arrow-array",
@@ -4626,8 +4626,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-arith",
 "arrow-array",
@@ -4659,8 +4659,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
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@@ -4674,8 +4674,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
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@@ -4742,8 +4742,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
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@@ -4783,8 +4783,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
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@@ -4800,8 +4800,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
 "async-trait",
@@ -4813,8 +4813,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-version = "2.0.0-rc.3"
-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
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@@ -4857,8 +4857,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
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@@ -4897,8 +4897,8 @@ dependencies = [

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-source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-rc.3#ad5e7c089e883c5fd503714c617aa7249fdf0cca"
+version = "2.0.0-beta.6"
+source = "git+https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git?tag=v2.0.0-beta.6#450ddc26061e8e73039c3771c3055328488b8b7c"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-schema",
@@ -4909,7 +4909,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lancedb"
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.23.1"
 dependencies = [
 "ahash",
 "anyhow",
@@ -4988,7 +4988,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lancedb-nodejs"
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.23.1"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow-array",
 "arrow-ipc",
@@ -5008,7 +5008,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "lancedb-python"
-version = "0.27.1"
+version = "0.26.1"
 dependencies = [
 "arrow",
 "async-trait",
@@ -6004,6 +6004,16 @@ version = "0.4.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "df202b0b0f5b8e389955afd5f27b007b00fb948162953f1db9c70d2c7e3157d7"

+[[package]]
+name = "petgraph"
+version = "0.7.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3672b37090dbd86368a4145bc067582552b29c27377cad4e0a306c97f9bd7772"
+dependencies = [
+ "fixedbitset",
+ "indexmap 2.12.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "petgraph"
 version = "0.8.3"
@@ -6585,9 +6595,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "prost"
-version = "0.14.3"
+version = "0.14.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d2ea70524a2f82d518bce41317d0fae74151505651af45faf1ffbd6fd33f0568"
+checksum = "7231bd9b3d3d33c86b58adbac74b5ec0ad9f496b19d22801d773636feaa95f3d"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "prost-derive",
@@ -6595,15 +6605,16 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "prost-build"
-version = "0.14.3"
+version = "0.14.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "343d3bd7056eda839b03204e68deff7d1b13aba7af2b2fd16890697274262ee7"
+checksum = "ac6c3320f9abac597dcbc668774ef006702672474aad53c6d596b62e487b40b1"
 dependencies = [
 "heck 0.5.0",
 "itertools 0.14.0",
 "log",
 "multimap",
- "petgraph",
+ "once_cell",
+ "petgraph 0.7.1",
 "prettyplease",
 "prost",
 "prost-types",
@@ -6614,9 +6625,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "prost-derive"
-version = "0.14.3"
+version = "0.14.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "27c6023962132f4b30eb4c172c91ce92d933da334c59c23cddee82358ddafb0b"
+checksum = "9120690fafc389a67ba3803df527d0ec9cbbc9cc45e4cc20b332996dfb672425"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "itertools 0.14.0",
@@ -6627,9 +6638,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "prost-types"
-version = "0.14.3"
+version = "0.14.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8991c4cbdb8bc5b11f0b074ffe286c30e523de90fee5ba8132f1399f23cb3dd7"
+checksum = "b9b4db3d6da204ed77bb26ba83b6122a73aeb2e87e25fbf7ad2e84c4ccbf8f72"
 dependencies = [
 "prost",
 ]
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,33 +12,33 @@ 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 = "1.88.0"
+rust-version = "1.78.0"

 [workspace.dependencies]
-lance = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-core = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datagen = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-file = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-io = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-index = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-linalg = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-table = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-testing = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-encoding = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-arrow = { "version" = "=2.0.0-rc.3", "tag" = "v2.0.0-rc.3", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-core = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datagen = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-file = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-io = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-index = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-linalg = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", default-features = false, "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-table = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-testing = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-encoding = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-arrow = { "version" = "=2.0.0-beta.6", "tag" = "v2.0.0-beta.6", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
 ahash = "0.8"
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
-arrow = { version = "57.2", optional = false }
-arrow-array = "57.2"
-arrow-data = "57.2"
-arrow-ipc = "57.2"
-arrow-ord = "57.2"
-arrow-schema = "57.2"
-arrow-select = "57.2"
-arrow-cast = "57.2"
+arrow = { version = "57.1", optional = false }
+arrow-array = "57.1"
+arrow-data = "57.1"
+arrow-ipc = "57.1"
+arrow-ord = "57.1"
+arrow-schema = "57.1"
+arrow-select = "57.1"
+arrow-cast = "57.1"
 async-trait = "0"
 datafusion = { version = "51.0", default-features = false }
 datafusion-catalog = "51.0"
--- a/docs/src/java/java.md
+++ b/docs/src/java/java.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Add the following dependency to your `pom.xml`:
 <dependency>
    <groupId>com.lancedb</groupId>
    <artifactId>lancedb-core</artifactId>
-    <version>0.24.1</version>
+    <version>0.23.1</version>
 </dependency>
 ```

--- a/java/lancedb-core/pom.xml
+++ b/java/lancedb-core/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    <parent>
      <groupId>com.lancedb</groupId>
      <artifactId>lancedb-parent</artifactId>
-      <version>0.24.1-final.0</version>
+      <version>0.23.1-final.0</version>
      <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
    </parent>

--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

    <groupId>com.lancedb</groupId>
    <artifactId>lancedb-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.24.1-final.0</version>
+    <version>0.23.1-final.0</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
    <description>LanceDB Java SDK Parent POM</description>
--- a/nodejs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nodejs/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "lancedb-nodejs"
 edition.workspace = true
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.23.1"
 license.workspace = true
 description.workspace = true
 repository.workspace = true
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ aws-lc-rs = "=1.13.0"
 napi-build = "2.1"

 [features]
-default = ["remote", "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface"]
+default = ["remote", "lancedb/default"]
 fp16kernels = ["lancedb/fp16kernels"]
 remote = ["lancedb/remote"]
--- a/nodejs/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-darwin-arm64",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["darwin"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.darwin-arm64.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/darwin-x64/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/darwin-x64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-darwin-x64",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["darwin"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.darwin-x64.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-gnu/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-gnu/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-arm64-gnu",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-arm64-gnu.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-musl/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-musl/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-arm64-musl",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-arm64-musl.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/linux-x64-gnu/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/linux-x64-gnu/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-x64-gnu",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-x64-gnu.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/linux-x64-musl/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/linux-x64-musl/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-x64-musl",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-x64-musl.node",
--- a/nodejs/npm/win32-arm64-msvc/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/win32-arm64-msvc/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
  "name": "@lancedb/lancedb-win32-arm64-msvc",
-  "version": "0.24.1",
+  "version": "0.23.1",
  "os": [
    "win32"
  ],
--- a/nodejs/npm/win32-x64-msvc/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/npm/win32-x64-msvc/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-win32-x64-msvc",
-	"version": "0.24.1",
+	"version": "0.23.1",
 	"os": ["win32"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.win32-x64-msvc.node",
--- a/nodejs/package-lock.json
+++ b/nodejs/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
  "name": "@lancedb/lancedb",
-  "version": "0.24.1",
+  "version": "0.23.1",
  "lockfileVersion": 3,
  "requires": true,
  "packages": {
    "": {
      "name": "@lancedb/lancedb",
-      "version": "0.24.1",
+      "version": "0.23.1",
      "cpu": [
        "x64",
        "arm64"
--- a/nodejs/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
    "ann"
  ],
  "private": false,
-  "version": "0.24.1",
+  "version": "0.23.1",
  "main": "dist/index.js",
  "exports": {
    ".": "./dist/index.js",
--- a/python/.bumpversion.toml
+++ b/python/.bumpversion.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "0.27.1"
+current_version = "0.26.1"
 parse = """(?x)
    (?P<major>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
    (?P<minor>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
--- a/python/Cargo.toml
+++ b/python/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 [package]
 name = "lancedb-python"
-version = "0.27.1"
+version = "0.26.1"
 edition.workspace = true
 description = "Python bindings for LanceDB"
 license.workspace = true
 repository.workspace = true
 keywords.workspace = true
 categories.workspace = true
-rust-version = "1.88.0"
+rust-version = "1.75.0"

 [lib]
 name = "_lancedb"
 crate-type = ["cdylib"]

 [dependencies]
-arrow = { version = "57.2", features = ["pyarrow"] }
+arrow = { workspace = true, features = ["pyarrow"] }
 async-trait = "0.1"
 lancedb = { path = "../rust/lancedb", default-features = false }
 lance-core.workspace = true
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ pyo3-build-config = { version = "0.26", features = [
 ] }

 [features]
-default = ["remote",  "lancedb/aws", "lancedb/gcs", "lancedb/azure", "lancedb/dynamodb", "lancedb/oss", "lancedb/huggingface"]
+default = ["remote", "lancedb/default"]
 fp16kernels = ["lancedb/fp16kernels"]
 remote = ["lancedb/remote"]
--- a/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi
+++ b/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ class Table:
        cleanup_since_ms: Optional[int] = None,
        delete_unverified: Optional[bool] = None,
    ) -> OptimizeStats: ...
-    async def uri(self) -> str: ...
    @property
    def tags(self) -> Tags: ...
    def query(self) -> Query: ...
--- a/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py
+++ b/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py
@@ -655,14 +655,6 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
    def stats(self):
        return LOOP.run(self._table.stats())

-    @property
-    def uri(self) -> str:
-        """The table URI (storage location).
-
-        For remote tables, this fetches the location from the server via describe.
-        """
-        return LOOP.run(self._table.uri())
-
    def take_offsets(self, offsets: list[int]) -> LanceTakeQueryBuilder:
        return LanceTakeQueryBuilder(self._table.take_offsets(offsets))

--- a/python/python/lancedb/table.py
+++ b/python/python/lancedb/table.py
@@ -2218,10 +2218,6 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
    def stats(self) -> TableStatistics:
        return LOOP.run(self._table.stats())

-    @property
-    def uri(self) -> str:
-        return LOOP.run(self._table.uri())
-
    def create_scalar_index(
        self,
        column: str,
@@ -3610,20 +3606,6 @@ class AsyncTable:
        """
        return await self._inner.stats()

-    async def uri(self) -> str:
-        """
-        Get the table URI (storage location).
-
-        For remote tables, this fetches the location from the server via describe.
-        For local tables, this returns the dataset URI.
-
-        Returns
-        -------
-        str
-            The full storage location of the table (e.g., S3/GCS path).
-        """
-        return await self._inner.uri()
-
    async def add(
        self,
        data: DATA,
--- a/python/python/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/python/python/tests/conftest.py
@@ -2,27 +2,12 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors

 from datetime import timedelta
-
 from lancedb.db import AsyncConnection, DBConnection
 import lancedb
 import pytest
 import pytest_asyncio


-def pandas_string_type():
-    """Return the PyArrow string type that pandas uses for string columns.
-
-    pandas 3.0+ uses large_string for string columns, pandas 2.x uses string.
-    """
-    import pandas as pd
-    import pyarrow as pa
-
-    version = tuple(int(x) for x in pd.__version__.split(".")[:2])
-    if version >= (3, 0):
-        return pa.large_utf8()
-    return pa.utf8()
-
-
 # Use an in-memory database for most tests.
@pytest.fixture
 def mem_db() -> DBConnection:
--- a/python/python/tests/test_db.py
+++ b/python/python/tests/test_db.py
@@ -268,8 +268,6 @@ async def test_create_table_from_iterator_async(mem_db_async: lancedb.AsyncConne


 def test_create_exist_ok(tmp_db: lancedb.DBConnection):
-    from conftest import pandas_string_type
-
    data = pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "vector": [[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
@@ -288,11 +286,10 @@ def test_create_exist_ok(tmp_db: lancedb.DBConnection):
    assert tbl.schema == tbl2.schema
    assert len(tbl) == len(tbl2)

-    # pandas 3.0+ uses large_string, pandas 2.x uses string
    schema = pa.schema(
        [
            pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2)),
-            pa.field("item", pandas_string_type()),
+            pa.field("item", pa.utf8()),
            pa.field("price", pa.float64()),
        ]
    )
@@ -302,7 +299,7 @@ def test_create_exist_ok(tmp_db: lancedb.DBConnection):
    bad_schema = pa.schema(
        [
            pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2)),
-            pa.field("item", pandas_string_type()),
+            pa.field("item", pa.utf8()),
            pa.field("price", pa.float64()),
            pa.field("extra", pa.float32()),
        ]
@@ -368,8 +365,6 @@ async def test_create_mode_async(tmp_db_async: lancedb.AsyncConnection):

@pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_create_exist_ok_async(tmp_db_async: lancedb.AsyncConnection):
-    from conftest import pandas_string_type
-
    data = pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "vector": [[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
@@ -387,11 +382,10 @@ async def test_create_exist_ok_async(tmp_db_async: lancedb.AsyncConnection):
    assert tbl.name == tbl2.name
    assert await tbl.schema() == await tbl2.schema()

-    # pandas 3.0+ uses large_string, pandas 2.x uses string
    schema = pa.schema(
        [
            pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2)),
-            pa.field("item", pandas_string_type()),
+            pa.field("item", pa.utf8()),
            pa.field("price", pa.float64()),
        ]
    )
@@ -601,8 +595,6 @@ def test_open_table_sync(tmp_db: lancedb.DBConnection):

@pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_open_table(tmp_path):
-    from conftest import pandas_string_type
-
    db = await lancedb.connect_async(tmp_path)
    data = pd.DataFrame(
        {
@@ -622,11 +614,10 @@ async def test_open_table(tmp_path):
        )
        is not None
    )
-    # pandas 3.0+ uses large_string, pandas 2.x uses string
    assert await tbl.schema() == pa.schema(
        {
            "vector": pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2),
-            "item": pandas_string_type(),
+            "item": pa.utf8(),
            "price": pa.float64(),
        }
    )
--- a/python/python/tests/test_namespace_integration.py
+++ b/python/python/tests/test_namespace_integration.py
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ import pytest
 from lance_namespace import (
    CreateEmptyTableRequest,
    CreateEmptyTableResponse,
-    DeclareTableRequest,
-    DeclareTableResponse,
    DescribeTableRequest,
    DescribeTableResponse,
    LanceNamespace,
@@ -162,19 +160,6 @@ class TrackingNamespace(LanceNamespace):

        return modified

-    def declare_table(self, request: DeclareTableRequest) -> DeclareTableResponse:
-        """Track declare_table calls and inject rotating credentials."""
-        with self.lock:
-            self.create_call_count += 1
-            count = self.create_call_count
-
-        response = self.inner.declare_table(request)
-        response.storage_options = self._modify_storage_options(
-            response.storage_options, count
-        )
-
-        return response
-
    def create_empty_table(
        self, request: CreateEmptyTableRequest
    ) -> CreateEmptyTableResponse:
--- a/python/python/tests/test_table.py
+++ b/python/python/tests/test_table.py
@@ -1967,9 +1967,3 @@ def test_add_table_with_empty_embeddings(tmp_path):
        on_bad_vectors="drop",
    )
    assert table.count_rows() == 1
-
-
-def test_table_uri(tmp_path):
-    db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
-    table = db.create_table("my_table", data=[{"x": 0}])
-    assert table.uri == str(tmp_path / "my_table.lance")
--- a/python/python/tests/test_util.py
+++ b/python/python/tests/test_util.py
@@ -528,19 +528,12 @@ def test_sanitize_data(
        else:
            expected_schema = schema
    else:
-        from conftest import pandas_string_type
-
-        # polars uses large_string, pandas 3.0+ uses large_string, others use string
-        if isinstance(data, pl.DataFrame):
-            text_type = pa.large_utf8()
-        elif isinstance(data, pd.DataFrame):
-            text_type = pandas_string_type()
-        else:
-            text_type = pa.string()
        expected_schema = pa.schema(
            {
                "id": pa.int64(),
-                "text": text_type,
+                "text": pa.large_utf8()
+                if isinstance(data, pl.DataFrame)
+                else pa.string(),
                "vector": pa.list_(pa.float32(), 10),
            }
        )
--- a/python/src/arrow.rs
+++ b/python/src/arrow.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ impl RecordBatchStream {
        (*self.schema)
            .clone()
            .into_pyarrow(py)
-            .map(|obj| obj.unbind())
+            .map(|bound| bound.unbind())
    }

    pub fn __aiter__(self_: PyRef<'_, Self>) -> PyRef<'_, Self> {
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ impl RecordBatchStream {
                inner_next
                    .infer_error()?
                    .to_pyarrow(py)
-                    .map(|obj| obj.unbind())
+                    .map(|bound| bound.unbind())
            })
        })
    }
--- a/python/src/connection.rs
+++ b/python/src/connection.rs
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ impl Connection {
                ..Default::default()
            };
            let response = inner.list_namespaces(request).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("namespaces", response.namespaces)?;
                dict.set_item("page_token", response.page_token)?;
@@ -327,12 +327,11 @@ impl Connection {
        let py = self_.py();
        future_into_py(py, async move {
            use lance_namespace::models::CreateNamespaceRequest;
-            // Mode is now a string field
-            let mode_str = mode.and_then(|m| match m.to_lowercase().as_str() {
-                "create" => Some("Create".to_string()),
-                "exist_ok" => Some("ExistOk".to_string()),
-                "overwrite" => Some("Overwrite".to_string()),
-                _ => None,
+            let mode_enum = mode.map(|m| match m.to_lowercase().as_str() {
+                "create" => "Create".to_string(),
+                "exist_ok" => "ExistOk".to_string(),
+                "overwrite" => "Overwrite".to_string(),
+                other => other.to_string(),
            });
            let request = CreateNamespaceRequest {
                id: if namespace.is_empty() {
@@ -340,12 +339,12 @@ impl Connection {
                } else {
                    Some(namespace)
                },
-                mode: mode_str,
+                mode: mode_enum,
                properties,
                ..Default::default()
            };
            let response = inner.create_namespace(request).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("properties", response.properties)?;
                Ok(dict.unbind())
@@ -364,16 +363,15 @@ impl Connection {
        let py = self_.py();
        future_into_py(py, async move {
            use lance_namespace::models::DropNamespaceRequest;
-            // Mode and Behavior are now string fields
-            let mode_str = mode.and_then(|m| match m.to_uppercase().as_str() {
-                "SKIP" => Some("Skip".to_string()),
-                "FAIL" => Some("Fail".to_string()),
-                _ => None,
+            let mode_enum = mode.map(|m| match m.to_uppercase().as_str() {
+                "SKIP" => "Skip".to_string(),
+                "FAIL" => "Fail".to_string(),
+                other => other.to_string(),
            });
-            let behavior_str = behavior.and_then(|b| match b.to_uppercase().as_str() {
-                "RESTRICT" => Some("Restrict".to_string()),
-                "CASCADE" => Some("Cascade".to_string()),
-                _ => None,
+            let behavior_enum = behavior.map(|b| match b.to_uppercase().as_str() {
+                "RESTRICT" => "Restrict".to_string(),
+                "CASCADE" => "Cascade".to_string(),
+                other => other.to_string(),
            });
            let request = DropNamespaceRequest {
                id: if namespace.is_empty() {
@@ -381,12 +379,12 @@ impl Connection {
                } else {
                    Some(namespace)
                },
-                mode: mode_str,
-                behavior: behavior_str,
+                mode: mode_enum,
+                behavior: behavior_enum,
                ..Default::default()
            };
            let response = inner.drop_namespace(request).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("properties", response.properties)?;
                dict.set_item("transaction_id", response.transaction_id)?;
@@ -413,7 +411,7 @@ impl Connection {
                ..Default::default()
            };
            let response = inner.describe_namespace(request).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("properties", response.properties)?;
                Ok(dict.unbind())
@@ -443,7 +441,7 @@ impl Connection {
                ..Default::default()
            };
            let response = inner.list_tables(request).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| -> PyResult<Py<PyDict>> {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("tables", response.tables)?;
                dict.set_item("page_token", response.page_token)?;
--- a/python/src/error.rs
+++ b/python/src/error.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ impl<T> PythonErrorExt<T> for std::result::Result<T, LanceError> {
                    request_id,
                    source,
                    status_code,
-                } => Python::attach(|py| {
+                } => Python::with_gil(|py| {
                    let message = err.to_string();
                    let http_err_cls = py
                        .import(intern!(py, "lancedb.remote.errors"))?
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ impl<T> PythonErrorExt<T> for std::result::Result<T, LanceError> {
                    max_read_failures,
                    source,
                    status_code,
-                } => Python::attach(|py| {
+                } => Python::with_gil(|py| {
                    let cause_err = http_from_rust_error(
                        py,
                        source.as_ref(),
--- a/python/src/header.rs
+++ b/python/src/header.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub struct PyHeaderProvider {

 impl Clone for PyHeaderProvider {
    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        Python::attach(|py| Self {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| Self {
            provider: self.provider.clone_ref(py),
        })
    }
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ impl PyHeaderProvider {

    /// Get headers from the Python provider (internal implementation)
    fn get_headers_internal(&self) -> Result<HashMap<String, String>, String> {
-        Python::attach(|py| {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
            // Call the get_headers method
            let result = self.provider.call_method0(py, "get_headers");

--- a/python/src/lib.rs
+++ b/python/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#![allow(deprecated)]
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors

--- a/python/src/permutation.rs
+++ b/python/src/permutation.rs
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ impl PyPermutationReader {
        let reader = slf.reader.clone();
        future_into_py(slf.py(), async move {
            let schema = reader.output_schema(selection).await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

--- a/python/src/query.rs
+++ b/python/src/query.rs
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ impl<'py> IntoPyObject<'py> for PyQueryVectors {
        let py_objs = self
            .0
            .into_iter()
-            .map(|v| v.to_data().into_pyarrow(py))
+            .map(|v| v.to_data().into_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
        PyList::new(py, py_objs)
    }
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ impl Query {
        let inner = self_.inner.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let schema = inner.output_schema().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ impl TakeQuery {
        let inner = self_.inner.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let schema = inner.output_schema().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ impl FTSQuery {
        let inner = self_.inner.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let schema = inner.output_schema().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ impl VectorQuery {
        let inner = self_.inner.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let schema = inner.output_schema().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

--- a/python/src/storage_options.rs
+++ b/python/src/storage_options.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub struct PyStorageOptionsProvider {

 impl Clone for PyStorageOptionsProvider {
    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        Python::attach(|py| Self {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| Self {
            inner: self.inner.clone_ref(py),
        })
    }
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ impl Clone for PyStorageOptionsProvider {

 impl PyStorageOptionsProvider {
    pub fn new(obj: Py<PyAny>) -> PyResult<Self> {
-        Python::attach(|py| {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
            // Verify the object has a fetch_storage_options method
            if !obj.bind(py).hasattr("fetch_storage_options")? {
                return Err(pyo3::exceptions::PyTypeError::new_err(
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ impl StorageOptionsProvider for PyStorageOptionsProviderWrapper {
        let py_provider = self.py_provider.clone();

        tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
-            Python::attach(|py| {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| {
                // Call the Python fetch_storage_options method
                let result = py_provider
                    .inner
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ impl StorageOptionsProvider for PyStorageOptionsProviderWrapper {
    }

    fn provider_id(&self) -> String {
-        Python::attach(|py| {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
            // Call provider_id() method on the Python object
            let obj = self.py_provider.inner.bind(py);
            obj.call_method0("provider_id")
--- a/python/src/table.rs
+++ b/python/src/table.rs
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ impl Table {
        let inner = self_.inner_ref()?.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let schema = inner.schema().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|obj| obj.unbind()))
+            Python::with_gil(|py| schema.to_pyarrow(py).map(|bound| bound.unbind()))
        })
    }

@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ impl Table {
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let stats = inner.index_stats(&index_name).await.infer_error()?;
            if let Some(stats) = stats {
-                Python::attach(|py| {
+                Python::with_gil(|py| {
                    let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                    dict.set_item("num_indexed_rows", stats.num_indexed_rows)?;
                    dict.set_item("num_unindexed_rows", stats.num_unindexed_rows)?;
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ impl Table {
        let inner = self_.inner_ref()?.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let stats = inner.stats().await.infer_error()?;
-            Python::attach(|py| {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| {
                let dict = PyDict::new(py);
                dict.set_item("total_bytes", stats.total_bytes)?;
                dict.set_item("num_rows", stats.num_rows)?;
@@ -497,11 +497,6 @@ impl Table {
        })
    }

-    pub fn uri(self_: PyRef<'_, Self>) -> PyResult<Bound<'_, PyAny>> {
-        let inner = self_.inner_ref()?.clone();
-        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move { inner.uri().await.infer_error() })
-    }
-
    pub fn __repr__(&self) -> String {
        match &self.inner {
            None => format!("ClosedTable({})", self.name),
@@ -521,7 +516,7 @@ impl Table {
        let inner = self_.inner_ref()?.clone();
        future_into_py(self_.py(), async move {
            let versions = inner.list_versions().await.infer_error()?;
-            let versions_as_dict = Python::attach(|py| {
+            let versions_as_dict = Python::with_gil(|py| {
                versions
                    .iter()
                    .map(|v| {
@@ -872,7 +867,7 @@ impl Tags {
            let tags = inner.tags().await.infer_error()?;
            let res = tags.list().await.infer_error()?;

-            Python::attach(|py| {
+            Python::with_gil(|py| {
                let py_dict = PyDict::new(py);
                for (key, contents) in res {
                    let value_dict = PyDict::new(py);
--- a/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "lancedb"
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.23.1"
 edition.workspace = true
 description = "LanceDB: A serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications"
 license.workspace = true
@@ -104,16 +104,11 @@ test-log = "0.2"


 [features]
-default = []
+default = ["aws", "gcs", "azure", "dynamodb", "oss"]
 aws = ["lance/aws", "lance-io/aws", "lance-namespace-impls/dir-aws"]
 oss = ["lance/oss", "lance-io/oss", "lance-namespace-impls/dir-oss"]
 gcs = ["lance/gcp", "lance-io/gcp", "lance-namespace-impls/dir-gcp"]
 azure = ["lance/azure", "lance-io/azure", "lance-namespace-impls/dir-azure"]
-huggingface = [
-    "lance/huggingface",
-    "lance-io/huggingface",
-    "lance-namespace-impls/dir-huggingface",
-]
 dynamodb = ["lance/dynamodb", "aws"]
 remote = ["dep:reqwest", "dep:http", "lance-namespace-impls/rest", "lance-namespace-impls/rest-adapter"]
 fp16kernels = ["lance-linalg/fp16kernels"]
@@ -153,6 +148,3 @@ name = "ivf_pq"
 [[example]]
 name = "hybrid_search"
 required-features = ["sentence-transformers"]
-
-[package.metadata.docs.rs]
-all-features = true
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/connection.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/connection.rs
@@ -36,42 +36,10 @@ use crate::remote::{
 };
 use crate::table::{TableDefinition, WriteOptions};
 use crate::Table;
-use lance::io::ObjectStoreParams;
 pub use lance_encoding::version::LanceFileVersion;
 #[cfg(feature = "remote")]
 use lance_io::object_store::StorageOptions;
-use lance_io::object_store::{StorageOptionsAccessor, StorageOptionsProvider};
-
-fn merge_storage_options(
-    store_params: &mut ObjectStoreParams,
-    pairs: impl IntoIterator<Item = (String, String)>,
-) {
-    let mut options = store_params.storage_options().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
-    for (key, value) in pairs {
-        options.insert(key, value);
-    }
-    let provider = store_params
-        .storage_options_accessor
-        .as_ref()
-        .and_then(|accessor| accessor.provider().cloned());
-    let accessor = if let Some(provider) = provider {
-        StorageOptionsAccessor::with_initial_and_provider(options, provider)
-    } else {
-        StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(options)
-    };
-    store_params.storage_options_accessor = Some(Arc::new(accessor));
-}
-
-fn set_storage_options_provider(
-    store_params: &mut ObjectStoreParams,
-    provider: Arc<dyn StorageOptionsProvider>,
-) {
-    let accessor = match store_params.storage_options().cloned() {
-        Some(options) => StorageOptionsAccessor::with_initial_and_provider(options, provider),
-        None => StorageOptionsAccessor::with_provider(provider),
-    };
-    store_params.storage_options_accessor = Some(Arc::new(accessor));
-}
+use lance_io::object_store::StorageOptionsProvider;

 /// A builder for configuring a [`Connection::table_names`] operation
 pub struct TableNamesBuilder {
@@ -278,14 +246,16 @@ impl<const HAS_DATA: bool> CreateTableBuilder<HAS_DATA> {
    ///
    /// See available options at <https://lancedb.com/docs/storage/>
    pub fn storage_option(mut self, key: impl Into<String>, value: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let store_options = self
            .request
            .write_options
            .lance_write_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_params
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        merge_storage_options(store_params, [(key.into(), value.into())]);
+        store_options.insert(key.into(), value.into());
        self
    }

@@ -299,17 +269,19 @@ impl<const HAS_DATA: bool> CreateTableBuilder<HAS_DATA> {
        mut self,
        pairs: impl IntoIterator<Item = (impl Into<String>, impl Into<String>)>,
    ) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let store_options = self
            .request
            .write_options
            .lance_write_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_params
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        let updates = pairs
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|(key, value)| (key.into(), value.into()));
-        merge_storage_options(store_params, updates);
+
+        for (key, value) in pairs {
+            store_options.insert(key.into(), value.into());
+        }
        self
    }

@@ -346,21 +318,23 @@ impl<const HAS_DATA: bool> CreateTableBuilder<HAS_DATA> {
    /// This has no effect in LanceDB Cloud.
    #[deprecated(since = "0.15.1", note = "Use `database_options` instead")]
    pub fn enable_v2_manifest_paths(mut self, use_v2_manifest_paths: bool) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let storage_options = self
            .request
            .write_options
            .lance_write_params
            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
            .store_params
+            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default);
-        let value = if use_v2_manifest_paths {
-            "true".to_string()
-        } else {
-            "false".to_string()
-        };
-        merge_storage_options(
-            store_params,
-            [(OPT_NEW_TABLE_V2_MANIFEST_PATHS.to_string(), value)],
+
+        storage_options.insert(
+            OPT_NEW_TABLE_V2_MANIFEST_PATHS.to_string(),
+            if use_v2_manifest_paths {
+                "true".to_string()
+            } else {
+                "false".to_string()
+            },
        );
        self
    }
@@ -370,19 +344,19 @@ impl<const HAS_DATA: bool> CreateTableBuilder<HAS_DATA> {
    /// The default is `LanceFileVersion::Stable`.
    #[deprecated(since = "0.15.1", note = "Use `database_options` instead")]
    pub fn data_storage_version(mut self, data_storage_version: LanceFileVersion) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let storage_options = self
            .request
            .write_options
            .lance_write_params
            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
            .store_params
+            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert_with(Default::default);
-        merge_storage_options(
-            store_params,
-            [(
-                OPT_NEW_TABLE_STORAGE_VERSION.to_string(),
-                data_storage_version.to_string(),
-            )],
+
+        storage_options.insert(
+            OPT_NEW_TABLE_STORAGE_VERSION.to_string(),
+            data_storage_version.to_string(),
        );
        self
    }
@@ -407,14 +381,13 @@ impl<const HAS_DATA: bool> CreateTableBuilder<HAS_DATA> {
    /// This allows tables to automatically refresh cloud storage credentials
    /// when they expire, enabling long-running operations on remote storage.
    pub fn storage_options_provider(mut self, provider: Arc<dyn StorageOptionsProvider>) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
-            .request
+        self.request
            .write_options
            .lance_write_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_params
-            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        set_storage_options_provider(store_params, provider);
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options_provider = Some(provider);
        self
    }
 }
@@ -477,13 +450,15 @@ impl OpenTableBuilder {
    ///
    /// See available options at <https://lancedb.com/docs/storage/>
    pub fn storage_option(mut self, key: impl Into<String>, value: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let storage_options = self
            .request
            .lance_read_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_options
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        merge_storage_options(store_params, [(key.into(), value.into())]);
+        storage_options.insert(key.into(), value.into());
        self
    }

@@ -497,16 +472,18 @@ impl OpenTableBuilder {
        mut self,
        pairs: impl IntoIterator<Item = (impl Into<String>, impl Into<String>)>,
    ) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
+        let storage_options = self
            .request
            .lance_read_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_options
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options
            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        let updates = pairs
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|(key, value)| (key.into(), value.into()));
-        merge_storage_options(store_params, updates);
+
+        for (key, value) in pairs {
+            storage_options.insert(key.into(), value.into());
+        }
        self
    }

@@ -530,13 +507,12 @@ impl OpenTableBuilder {
    /// This allows tables to automatically refresh cloud storage credentials
    /// when they expire, enabling long-running operations on remote storage.
    pub fn storage_options_provider(mut self, provider: Arc<dyn StorageOptionsProvider>) -> Self {
-        let store_params = self
-            .request
+        self.request
            .lance_read_params
            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
            .store_options
-            .get_or_insert(Default::default());
-        set_storage_options_provider(store_params, provider);
+            .get_or_insert(Default::default())
+            .storage_options_provider = Some(provider);
        self
    }

@@ -892,10 +868,6 @@ pub struct ConnectBuilder {
    embedding_registry: Option<Arc<dyn EmbeddingRegistry>>,
 }

-#[cfg(feature = "remote")]
-const ENV_VARS_TO_STORAGE_OPTS: [(&str, &str); 1] =
-    [("AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME", "azure_storage_account_name")];
-
 impl ConnectBuilder {
    /// Create a new [`ConnectOptions`] with the given database URI.
    pub fn new(uri: &str) -> Self {
@@ -1079,27 +1051,11 @@ impl ConnectBuilder {
        self
    }

-    #[cfg(feature = "remote")]
-    fn apply_env_defaults(
-        env_var_to_remote_storage_option: &[(&str, &str)],
-        options: &mut HashMap<String, String>,
-    ) {
-        for (env_key, opt_key) in env_var_to_remote_storage_option {
-            if let Ok(env_value) = std::env::var(env_key) {
-                if !options.contains_key(*opt_key) {
-                    options.insert((*opt_key).to_string(), env_value);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
    #[cfg(feature = "remote")]
    fn execute_remote(self) -> Result<Connection> {
        use crate::remote::db::RemoteDatabaseOptions;

-        let mut merged_options = self.request.options.clone();
-        Self::apply_env_defaults(&ENV_VARS_TO_STORAGE_OPTS, &mut merged_options);
-        let options = RemoteDatabaseOptions::parse_from_map(&merged_options)?;
+        let options = RemoteDatabaseOptions::parse_from_map(&self.request.options)?;

        let region = options.region.ok_or_else(|| Error::InvalidInput {
            message: "A region is required when connecting to LanceDb Cloud".to_string(),
@@ -1321,6 +1277,8 @@ mod test_utils {

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    use std::fs::create_dir_all;
+
    use crate::database::listing::{ListingDatabaseOptions, NewTableConfig};
    use crate::query::QueryBase;
    use crate::query::{ExecutableQuery, QueryExecutionOptions};
@@ -1344,23 +1302,6 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(tc.connection.uri(), tc.uri);
    }

-    #[cfg(feature = "remote")]
-    #[test]
-    fn test_apply_env_defaults() {
-        let env_key = "TEST_APPLY_ENV_DEFAULTS_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_ENV_KEY";
-        let env_val = "TEST_APPLY_ENV_DEFAULTS_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_ENV_VAL";
-        let opts_key = "test_apply_env_defaults_environment_variable_opts_key";
-        std::env::set_var(env_key, env_val);
-
-        let mut options = HashMap::new();
-        ConnectBuilder::apply_env_defaults(&[(env_key, opts_key)], &mut options);
-        assert_eq!(Some(&env_val.to_string()), options.get(opts_key));
-
-        options.insert(opts_key.to_string(), "EXPLICIT-VALUE".to_string());
-        ConnectBuilder::apply_env_defaults(&[(env_key, opts_key)], &mut options);
-        assert_eq!(Some(&"EXPLICIT-VALUE".to_string()), options.get(opts_key));
-    }
-
    #[cfg(not(windows))]
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_connect_relative() {
@@ -1585,27 +1526,18 @@ mod tests {

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn drop_table() {
-        let tc = new_test_connection().await.unwrap();
-        let db = tc.connection;
+        let tmp_dir = tempdir().unwrap();

-        if tc.is_remote {
-            // All the typical endpoints such as s3:///, file-object-store:///, etc. treat drop_table
-            // as idempotent.
-            assert!(db.drop_table("invalid_table", &[]).await.is_ok());
-        } else {
-            // The behavior of drop_table when using a file:/// endpoint differs from all other
-            // object providers, in that it returns an error when deleting a non-existent table.
-            assert!(matches!(
-                db.drop_table("invalid_table", &[]).await,
-                Err(crate::Error::TableNotFound { .. }),
-            ));
-        }
+        let uri = tmp_dir.path().to_str().unwrap();
+        let db = connect(uri).execute().await.unwrap();

-        let schema = Arc::new(Schema::new(vec![Field::new("x", DataType::Int32, false)]));
-        db.create_empty_table("table1", schema.clone())
-            .execute()
-            .await
-            .unwrap();
+        // drop non-exist table
+        assert!(matches!(
+            db.drop_table("invalid_table", &[]).await,
+            Err(crate::Error::TableNotFound { .. }),
+        ));
+
+        create_dir_all(tmp_dir.path().join("table1.lance")).unwrap();
        db.drop_table("table1", &[]).await.unwrap();

        let tables = db.table_names().execute().await.unwrap();
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/database/listing.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/database/listing.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use lance::dataset::{builder::DatasetBuilder, ReadParams, WriteMode};
 use lance::io::{ObjectStore, ObjectStoreParams, WrappingObjectStore};
 use lance_datafusion::utils::StreamingWriteSource;
 use lance_encoding::version::LanceFileVersion;
-use lance_io::object_store::{StorageOptionsAccessor, StorageOptionsProvider};
+use lance_io::object_store::StorageOptionsProvider;
 use lance_table::io::commit::commit_handler_from_url;
 use object_store::local::LocalFileSystem;
 use snafu::ResultExt;
@@ -356,13 +356,7 @@ impl ListingDatabase {
                    .clone()
                    .unwrap_or_else(|| Arc::new(lance::session::Session::default()));
                let os_params = ObjectStoreParams {
-                    storage_options_accessor: if options.storage_options.is_empty() {
-                        None
-                    } else {
-                        Some(Arc::new(StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(
-                            options.storage_options.clone(),
-                        )))
-                    },
+                    storage_options: Some(options.storage_options.clone()),
                    ..Default::default()
                };
                let (object_store, base_path) = ObjectStore::from_uri_and_params(
@@ -469,20 +463,9 @@ impl ListingDatabase {
        validate_table_name(name)?;

        let mut uri = self.uri.clone();
-        // If the URI does not end with a path separator, add one
-        // Use forward slash for URIs (http://, s3://, gs://, file://, etc.)
-        // Use platform-specific separator for local paths without scheme
-        let has_scheme = uri.contains("://");
-        let ends_with_separator = uri.ends_with('/') || uri.ends_with('\\');
-
-        if !ends_with_separator {
-            if has_scheme {
-                // URIs always use forward slash
-                uri.push('/');
-            } else {
-                // Local path without scheme - use platform separator
-                uri.push(std::path::MAIN_SEPARATOR);
-            }
+        // If the URI does not end with a slash, add one
+        if !uri.ends_with('/') {
+            uri.push('/');
        }
        // Append the table name with the lance file extension
        uri.push_str(&format!("{}.{}", name, LANCE_FILE_EXTENSION));
@@ -498,13 +481,7 @@ impl ListingDatabase {

    async fn drop_tables(&self, names: Vec<String>) -> Result<()> {
        let object_store_params = ObjectStoreParams {
-            storage_options_accessor: if self.storage_options.is_empty() {
-                None
-            } else {
-                Some(Arc::new(StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(
-                    self.storage_options.clone(),
-                )))
-            },
+            storage_options: Some(self.storage_options.clone()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let mut uri = self.uri.clone();
@@ -553,7 +530,7 @@ impl ListingDatabase {
            .lance_write_params
            .as_ref()
            .and_then(|p| p.store_params.as_ref())
-            .and_then(|sp| sp.storage_options());
+            .and_then(|sp| sp.storage_options.as_ref());

        let storage_version_override = storage_options
            .and_then(|opts| opts.get(OPT_NEW_TABLE_STORAGE_VERSION))
@@ -604,20 +581,21 @@ impl ListingDatabase {
        // will cause a new connection to be created, and that connection will
        // be dropped from the cache when python GCs the table object, which
        // confounds reuse across tables.
-        if !self.storage_options.is_empty() || self.storage_options_provider.is_some() {
-            let store_params = write_params
+        if !self.storage_options.is_empty() {
+            let storage_options = write_params
                .store_params
+                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+                .storage_options
                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default);
-            let mut storage_options = store_params.storage_options().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
-            if !self.storage_options.is_empty() {
-                self.inherit_storage_options(&mut storage_options);
-            }
-            let accessor = if let Some(ref provider) = self.storage_options_provider {
-                StorageOptionsAccessor::with_initial_and_provider(storage_options, provider.clone())
-            } else {
-                StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(storage_options)
-            };
-            store_params.storage_options_accessor = Some(Arc::new(accessor));
+            self.inherit_storage_options(storage_options);
+        }
+
+        // Set storage options provider if available
+        if self.storage_options_provider.is_some() {
+            write_params
+                .store_params
+                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+                .storage_options_provider = self.storage_options_provider.clone();
        }

        write_params.data_storage_version = self
@@ -903,13 +881,7 @@ impl Database for ListingDatabase {
        validate_table_name(&request.target_table_name)?;

        let storage_params = ObjectStoreParams {
-            storage_options_accessor: if self.storage_options.is_empty() {
-                None
-            } else {
-                Some(Arc::new(StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(
-                    self.storage_options.clone(),
-                )))
-            },
+            storage_options: Some(self.storage_options.clone()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let read_params = ReadParams {
@@ -973,28 +945,25 @@ impl Database for ListingDatabase {
        // will cause a new connection to be created, and that connection will
        // be dropped from the cache when python GCs the table object, which
        // confounds reuse across tables.
-        if !self.storage_options.is_empty() || self.storage_options_provider.is_some() {
-            let store_params = request
+        if !self.storage_options.is_empty() {
+            let storage_options = request
                .lance_read_params
                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
                .store_options
+                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+                .storage_options
                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default);
-            let mut storage_options = store_params.storage_options().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
-            if !self.storage_options.is_empty() {
-                self.inherit_storage_options(&mut storage_options);
-            }
-            // Preserve request-level provider if no connection-level provider exists
-            let request_provider = store_params
-                .storage_options_accessor
-                .as_ref()
-                .and_then(|a| a.provider().cloned());
-            let provider = self.storage_options_provider.clone().or(request_provider);
-            let accessor = if let Some(provider) = provider {
-                StorageOptionsAccessor::with_initial_and_provider(storage_options, provider)
-            } else {
-                StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(storage_options)
-            };
-            store_params.storage_options_accessor = Some(Arc::new(accessor));
+            self.inherit_storage_options(storage_options);
+        }
+
+        // Set storage options provider if available
+        if self.storage_options_provider.is_some() {
+            request
+                .lance_read_params
+                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+                .store_options
+                .get_or_insert_with(Default::default)
+                .storage_options_provider = self.storage_options_provider.clone();
        }

        // Some ReadParams are exposed in the OpenTableBuilder, but we also
@@ -1102,7 +1071,6 @@ mod tests {
    use crate::table::{Table, TableDefinition};
    use arrow_array::{Int32Array, RecordBatch, StringArray};
    use arrow_schema::{DataType, Field, Schema};
-    use std::path::PathBuf;
    use tempfile::tempdir;

    async fn setup_database() -> (tempfile::TempDir, ListingDatabase) {
@@ -1901,9 +1869,7 @@ mod tests {
        let write_options = WriteOptions {
            lance_write_params: Some(lance::dataset::WriteParams {
                store_params: Some(lance::io::ObjectStoreParams {
-                    storage_options_accessor: Some(Arc::new(
-                        StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(storage_options),
-                    )),
+                    storage_options: Some(storage_options),
                    ..Default::default()
                }),
                ..Default::default()
@@ -1977,9 +1943,7 @@ mod tests {
        let write_options = WriteOptions {
            lance_write_params: Some(lance::dataset::WriteParams {
                store_params: Some(lance::io::ObjectStoreParams {
-                    storage_options_accessor: Some(Arc::new(
-                        StorageOptionsAccessor::with_static_options(storage_options),
-                    )),
+                    storage_options: Some(storage_options),
                    ..Default::default()
                }),
                ..Default::default()
@@ -2082,19 +2046,6 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(db_options.new_table_config.enable_stable_row_ids, None);
    }

-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn test_table_uri() {
-        let (_tempdir, db) = setup_database().await;
-
-        let mut pb = PathBuf::new();
-        pb.push(db.uri.clone());
-        pb.push("test.lance");
-
-        let expected = pb.to_str().unwrap();
-        let uri = db.table_uri("test").ok().unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(uri, expected);
-    }
-
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_namespace_client() {
        let (_tempdir, db) = setup_database().await;
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/database/namespace.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/database/namespace.rs
@@ -9,15 +9,14 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use lance_namespace::{
    models::{
-        CreateEmptyTableRequest, CreateNamespaceRequest, CreateNamespaceResponse,
-        DeclareTableRequest, DescribeNamespaceRequest, DescribeNamespaceResponse,
-        DescribeTableRequest, DropNamespaceRequest, DropNamespaceResponse, DropTableRequest,
-        ListNamespacesRequest, ListNamespacesResponse, ListTablesRequest, ListTablesResponse,
+        CreateNamespaceRequest, CreateNamespaceResponse, DeclareTableRequest,
+        DescribeNamespaceRequest, DescribeNamespaceResponse, DescribeTableRequest,
+        DropNamespaceRequest, DropNamespaceResponse, DropTableRequest, ListNamespacesRequest,
+        ListNamespacesResponse, ListTablesRequest, ListTablesResponse,
    },
    LanceNamespace,
 };
 use lance_namespace_impls::ConnectBuilder;
-use log::warn;

 use crate::database::ReadConsistency;
 use crate::error::{Error, Result};
@@ -155,6 +154,7 @@ impl Database for LanceNamespaceDatabase {
        table_id.push(request.name.clone());
        let describe_request = DescribeTableRequest {
            id: Some(table_id.clone()),
+            version: None,
            ..Default::default()
        };

@@ -205,53 +205,24 @@ impl Database for LanceNamespaceDatabase {
        let mut table_id = request.namespace.clone();
        table_id.push(request.name.clone());

-        // Try declare_table first, falling back to create_empty_table for backwards
-        // compatibility with older namespace clients that don't support declare_table
        let declare_request = DeclareTableRequest {
            id: Some(table_id.clone()),
+            location: None,
+            vend_credentials: None,
            ..Default::default()
        };

-        let location = match self.namespace.declare_table(declare_request).await {
-            Ok(response) => response.location.ok_or_else(|| Error::Runtime {
-                message: "Table location is missing from declare_table response".to_string(),
-            })?,
-            Err(e) => {
-                // Check if the error is "not supported" and try create_empty_table as fallback
-                let err_str = e.to_string().to_lowercase();
-                if err_str.contains("not supported") || err_str.contains("not implemented") {
-                    warn!(
-                        "declare_table is not supported by the namespace client, \
-                        falling back to deprecated create_empty_table. \
-                        create_empty_table is deprecated and will be removed in Lance 3.0.0. \
-                        Please upgrade your namespace client to support declare_table."
-                    );
-                    #[allow(deprecated)]
-                    let create_empty_request = CreateEmptyTableRequest {
-                        id: Some(table_id.clone()),
-                        ..Default::default()
-                    };
+        let declare_response = self
+            .namespace
+            .declare_table(declare_request)
+            .await
+            .map_err(|e| Error::Runtime {
+                message: format!("Failed to declare table: {}", e),
+            })?;

-                    #[allow(deprecated)]
-                    let create_response = self
-                        .namespace
-                        .create_empty_table(create_empty_request)
-                        .await
-                        .map_err(|e| Error::Runtime {
-                            message: format!("Failed to create empty table: {}", e),
-                        })?;
-
-                    create_response.location.ok_or_else(|| Error::Runtime {
-                        message: "Table location is missing from create_empty_table response"
-                            .to_string(),
-                    })?
-                } else {
-                    return Err(Error::Runtime {
-                        message: format!("Failed to declare table: {}", e),
-                    });
-                }
-            }
-        };
+        let location = declare_response.location.ok_or_else(|| Error::Runtime {
+            message: "Table location is missing from declare_table response".to_string(),
+        })?;

        let native_table = NativeTable::create_from_namespace(
            self.namespace.clone(),
@@ -466,6 +437,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -526,6 +499,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -589,6 +564,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -672,6 +649,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -727,6 +706,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -807,6 +788,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
@@ -840,6 +823,8 @@ mod tests {
        // Create a child namespace first
        conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
            id: Some(vec!["test_ns".into()]),
+            mode: None,
+            properties: None,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/dataloader/permutation/shuffle.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/dataloader/permutation/shuffle.rs
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ impl Shuffler {
            // This is kind of an annoying limitation but if we allow runt clumps from batches then
            // clumps will get unaligned and we will mess up the clumps when we do the in-memory
            // shuffle step.  If this is a problem we can probably figure out a better way to do this.
-            if !is_last && !(batch.num_rows() as u64).is_multiple_of(clump_size) {
+            if !is_last && batch.num_rows() as u64 % clump_size != 0 {
                return Err(Error::Runtime {
                    message: format!(
                        "Expected batch size ({}) to be divisible by clump size ({})",
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/dataloader/permutation/split.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/dataloader/permutation/split.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors

-use std::sync::{
-    atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, AtomicUsize, Ordering},
-    Arc,
+use std::{
+    iter,
+    sync::{
+        atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, AtomicUsize, Ordering},
+        Arc,
+    },
 };

 use arrow_array::{Array, BooleanArray, RecordBatch, UInt64Array};
@@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ impl Splitter {
                remaining_in_split
            };

-            split_ids.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(split_id as u64, rows_to_add as usize));
+            split_ids.extend(iter::repeat(split_id as u64).take(rows_to_add as usize));
            if done {
                // Quit early if we've run out of splits
                break;
@@ -659,7 +662,7 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(split_batch.num_rows(), total_split_sizes as usize);
        let mut expected = Vec::with_capacity(total_split_sizes as usize);
        for (i, size) in expected_split_sizes.iter().enumerate() {
-            expected.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(i as u64, *size as usize));
+            expected.extend(iter::repeat(i as u64).take(*size as usize));
        }
        let expected = Arc::new(UInt64Array::from(expected)) as Arc<dyn Array>;

--- a/rust/lancedb/src/index/vector.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/index/vector.rs
@@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ impl IvfPqIndexBuilder {
 }

 pub(crate) fn suggested_num_sub_vectors(dim: u32) -> u32 {
-    if dim.is_multiple_of(16) {
+    if dim % 16 == 0 {
        // Should be more aggressive than this default.
        dim / 16
-    } else if dim.is_multiple_of(8) {
+    } else if dim % 8 == 0 {
        dim / 8
    } else {
        log::warn!(
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs
@@ -25,14 +25,13 @@
 //!
 //! ## Crate Features
 //!
-//! - `aws` - Enable AWS S3 object store support.
-//! - `dynamodb` - Enable DynamoDB manifest store support.
-//! - `azure` - Enable Azure Blob Storage object store support.
-//! - `gcs` - Enable Google Cloud Storage object store support.
-//! - `oss` - Enable Alibaba Cloud OSS object store support.
-//! - `remote` - Enable remote client to connect to LanceDB cloud.
-//! - `huggingface` - Enable HuggingFace Hub integration for loading datasets from the Hub.
-//! - `fp16kernels` - Enable FP16 kernels for faster vector search on CPU.
+//! ### Experimental Features
+//!
+//! These features are not enabled by default.  They are experimental or in-development features that
+//! are not yet ready to be released.
+//!
+//! - `remote` - Enable remote client to connect to LanceDB cloud.  This is not yet fully implemented
+//!   and should not be enabled.
 //!
 //! ### Quick Start
 //!
@@ -51,15 +50,17 @@
 //! - `s3://bucket/path/to/database` or `gs://bucket/path/to/database` - database on cloud object store
 //! - `db://dbname` - Lance Cloud
 //!
-//! You can also use [`ConnectBuilder`] to configure the connection to the database.
+//! You can also use [`ConnectOptions`] to configure the connection to the database.
 //!
 //! ```rust
+//! use object_store::aws::AwsCredential;
 //! # tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap().block_on(async {
 //! let db = lancedb::connect("data/sample-lancedb")
-//!     .storage_options([
-//!         ("aws_access_key_id", "some_key"),
-//!         ("aws_secret_access_key", "some_secret"),
-//!     ])
+//!     .aws_creds(AwsCredential {
+//!         key_id: "some_key".to_string(),
+//!         secret_key: "some_secret".to_string(),
+//!         token: None,
+//!     })
 //!     .execute()
 //!     .await
 //!     .unwrap();
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/remote/db.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/remote/db.rs
@@ -1718,6 +1718,8 @@ mod tests {
            let namespace = vec!["test_ns".to_string()];
            conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
                id: Some(namespace.clone()),
+                mode: None,
+                properties: None,
                ..Default::default()
            })
            .await
@@ -1743,6 +1745,8 @@ mod tests {
            let list_response = conn
                .list_tables(ListTablesRequest {
                    id: Some(namespace.clone()),
+                    page_token: None,
+                    limit: None,
                    ..Default::default()
                })
                .await
@@ -1754,6 +1758,8 @@ mod tests {
            let list_response = namespace_client
                .list_tables(ListTablesRequest {
                    id: Some(namespace.clone()),
+                    page_token: None,
+                    limit: None,
                    ..Default::default()
                })
                .await
@@ -1794,6 +1800,8 @@ mod tests {
            let namespace = vec!["multi_table_ns".to_string()];
            conn.create_namespace(CreateNamespaceRequest {
                id: Some(namespace.clone()),
+                mode: None,
+                properties: None,
                ..Default::default()
            })
            .await
@@ -1819,6 +1827,8 @@ mod tests {
            let list_response = conn
                .list_tables(ListTablesRequest {
                    id: Some(namespace.clone()),
+                    page_token: None,
+                    limit: None,
                    ..Default::default()
                })
                .await
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs
@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ pub struct RemoteTable<S: HttpSend = Sender> {
    server_version: ServerVersion,

    version: RwLock<Option<u64>>,
-    location: RwLock<Option<String>>,
 }

 impl<S: HttpSend> RemoteTable<S> {
@@ -222,7 +221,6 @@ impl<S: HttpSend> RemoteTable<S> {
            identifier,
            server_version,
            version: RwLock::new(None),
-            location: RwLock::new(None),
        }
    }

@@ -641,7 +639,6 @@ impl<S: HttpSend> RemoteTable<S> {
 struct TableDescription {
    version: u64,
    schema: JsonSchema,
-    location: Option<String>,
 }

 impl<S: HttpSend> std::fmt::Display for RemoteTable<S> {
@@ -670,7 +667,6 @@ mod test_utils {
                identifier: name,
                server_version: version.map(ServerVersion).unwrap_or_default(),
                version: RwLock::new(None),
-                location: RwLock::new(None),
            }
        }
    }
@@ -1465,28 +1461,8 @@ impl<S: HttpSend> BaseTable for RemoteTable<S> {
            message: "table_definition is not supported on LanceDB cloud.".into(),
        })
    }
-    async fn uri(&self) -> Result<String> {
-        // Check if we already have the location cached
-        {
-            let location = self.location.read().await;
-            if let Some(ref loc) = *location {
-                return Ok(loc.clone());
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Fetch from server via describe
-        let description = self.describe().await?;
-        let location = description.location.ok_or_else(|| Error::NotSupported {
-            message: "Table URI not supported by the server".into(),
-        })?;
-
-        // Cache the location for future use
-        {
-            let mut cached_location = self.location.write().await;
-            *cached_location = Some(location.clone());
-        }
-
-        Ok(location)
+    fn dataset_uri(&self) -> &str {
+        "NOT_SUPPORTED"
    }

    async fn storage_options(&self) -> Option<HashMap<String, String>> {
@@ -3356,69 +3332,4 @@ mod tests {
        let result = table.drop_columns(&["old_col1", "old_col2"]).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.version, 5);
    }
-
-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn test_uri() {
-        let table = Table::new_with_handler("my_table", |request| {
-            assert_eq!(request.method(), "POST");
-            assert_eq!(request.url().path(), "/v1/table/my_table/describe/");
-
-            http::Response::builder()
-                .status(200)
-                .body(r#"{"version": 1, "schema": {"fields": []}, "location": "s3://bucket/path/to/table"}"#)
-                .unwrap()
-        });
-
-        let uri = table.uri().await.unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(uri, "s3://bucket/path/to/table");
-    }
-
-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn test_uri_missing_location() {
-        let table = Table::new_with_handler("my_table", |request| {
-            assert_eq!(request.method(), "POST");
-            assert_eq!(request.url().path(), "/v1/table/my_table/describe/");
-
-            // Server returns response without location field
-            http::Response::builder()
-                .status(200)
-                .body(r#"{"version": 1, "schema": {"fields": []}}"#)
-                .unwrap()
-        });
-
-        let result = table.uri().await;
-        assert!(result.is_err());
-        assert!(matches!(&result, Err(Error::NotSupported { .. })));
-    }
-
-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn test_uri_caching() {
-        use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
-        use std::sync::Arc;
-
-        let call_count = Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0));
-        let call_count_clone = call_count.clone();
-
-        let table = Table::new_with_handler("my_table", move |request| {
-            assert_eq!(request.url().path(), "/v1/table/my_table/describe/");
-            call_count_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
-
-            http::Response::builder()
-                .status(200)
-                .body(
-                    r#"{"version": 1, "schema": {"fields": []}, "location": "gs://bucket/table"}"#,
-                )
-                .unwrap()
-        });
-
-        // First call should fetch from server
-        let uri1 = table.uri().await.unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(uri1, "gs://bucket/table");
-        assert_eq!(call_count.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1);
-
-        // Second call should use cached value
-        let uri2 = table.uri().await.unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(uri2, "gs://bucket/table");
-        assert_eq!(call_count.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1); // Still 1, no new call
-    }
 }
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/table.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/table.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ use lance_index::vector::pq::PQBuildParams;
 use lance_index::vector::sq::builder::SQBuildParams;
 use lance_index::DatasetIndexExt;
 use lance_index::IndexType;
-use lance_io::object_store::{LanceNamespaceStorageOptionsProvider, StorageOptionsAccessor};
+use lance_io::object_store::LanceNamespaceStorageOptionsProvider;
 use lance_namespace::models::{
    QueryTableRequest as NsQueryTableRequest, QueryTableRequestColumns,
    QueryTableRequestFullTextQuery, QueryTableRequestVector, StringFtsQuery,
@@ -608,8 +608,8 @@ pub trait BaseTable: std::fmt::Display + std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync {
    async fn list_versions(&self) -> Result<Vec<Version>>;
    /// Get the table definition.
    async fn table_definition(&self) -> Result<TableDefinition>;
-    /// Get the table URI (storage location)
-    async fn uri(&self) -> Result<String>;
+    /// Get the table URI
+    fn dataset_uri(&self) -> &str;
    /// Get the storage options used when opening this table, if any.
    async fn storage_options(&self) -> Option<HashMap<String, String>>;
    /// Poll until the columns are fully indexed. Will return Error::Timeout if the columns
@@ -1317,12 +1317,11 @@ impl Table {
        self.inner.list_indices().await
    }

-    /// Get the table URI (storage location)
+    /// Get the underlying dataset URI
    ///
-    /// Returns the full storage location of the table (e.g., S3/GCS path).
-    /// For remote tables, this fetches the location from the server via describe.
-    pub async fn uri(&self) -> Result<String> {
-        self.inner.uri().await
+    /// Warning: This is an internal API and the return value is subject to change.
+    pub fn dataset_uri(&self) -> &str {
+        self.inner.dataset_uri()
    }

    /// Get the storage options used when opening this table, if any.
@@ -1425,9 +1424,7 @@ impl Table {
            })
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();

-        let unioned = UnionExec::try_new(projected_plans).map_err(|err| Error::Runtime {
-            message: err.to_string(),
-        })?;
+        let unioned = UnionExec::try_new(projected_plans).unwrap();
        // We require 1 partition in the final output
        let repartitioned = RepartitionExec::try_new(
            unioned,
@@ -1668,14 +1665,18 @@ impl NativeTable {

        // Use DatasetBuilder::from_namespace which automatically fetches location
        // and storage options from the namespace
-        let builder = DatasetBuilder::from_namespace(namespace_client.clone(), table_id)
-            .await
-            .map_err(|e| match e {
-                lance::Error::Namespace { source, .. } => Error::Runtime {
-                    message: format!("Failed to get table info from namespace: {:?}", source),
-                },
-                source => Error::Lance { source },
-            })?;
+        let builder = DatasetBuilder::from_namespace(
+            namespace_client.clone(),
+            table_id,
+            false, // Don't ignore namespace storage options
+        )
+        .await
+        .map_err(|e| match e {
+            lance::Error::Namespace { source, .. } => Error::Runtime {
+                message: format!("Failed to get table info from namespace: {:?}", source),
+            },
+            source => Error::Lance { source },
+        })?;

        let dataset = builder
            .with_read_params(params)
@@ -1879,13 +1880,7 @@ impl NativeTable {
        let store_params = params
            .store_params
            .get_or_insert_with(ObjectStoreParams::default);
-        let accessor = match store_params.storage_options().cloned() {
-            Some(options) => {
-                StorageOptionsAccessor::with_initial_and_provider(options, storage_options_provider)
-            }
-            None => StorageOptionsAccessor::with_provider(storage_options_provider),
-        };
-        store_params.storage_options_accessor = Some(Arc::new(accessor));
+        store_params.storage_options_provider = Some(storage_options_provider);

        // Patch the params if we have a write store wrapper
        let params = match write_store_wrapper.clone() {
@@ -2061,7 +2056,7 @@ impl NativeTable {
            return provided;
        }
        let suggested = suggested_num_sub_vectors(dim);
-        if num_bits.is_some_and(|num_bits| num_bits == 4) && !suggested.is_multiple_of(2) {
+        if num_bits.is_some_and(|num_bits| num_bits == 4) && suggested % 2 != 0 {
            // num_sub_vectors must be even when 4 bits are used
            suggested + 1
        } else {
@@ -2337,6 +2332,18 @@ impl NativeTable {
        }
    }

+    /// Convert selected columns into the namespace request format.
+    fn namespace_columns(&self, columns: &[String]) -> Option<Box<QueryTableRequestColumns>> {
+        if columns.is_empty() {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(Box::new(QueryTableRequestColumns {
+                column_names: Some(columns.to_vec()),
+                column_aliases: None,
+            }))
+        }
+    }
+
    /// Convert an AnyQuery to the namespace QueryTableRequest format.
    fn convert_to_namespace_query(&self, query: &AnyQuery) -> Result<NsQueryTableRequest> {
        match query {
@@ -2353,10 +2360,7 @@ impl NativeTable {
                // Convert select to columns list
                let columns = match &vq.base.select {
                    Select::All => None,
-                    Select::Columns(cols) => Some(Box::new(QueryTableRequestColumns {
-                        column_names: Some(cols.clone()),
-                        column_aliases: None,
-                    })),
+                    Select::Columns(cols) => self.namespace_columns(cols),
                    Select::Dynamic(_) => {
                        return Err(Error::NotSupported {
                            message:
@@ -2391,6 +2395,8 @@ impl NativeTable {
                });

                Ok(NsQueryTableRequest {
+                    identity: None,
+                    context: None,
                    id: None, // Will be set in namespace_query
                    k: vq.base.limit.unwrap_or(10) as i32,
                    vector: Box::new(vector),
@@ -2409,7 +2415,7 @@ impl NativeTable {
                    with_row_id: Some(vq.base.with_row_id),
                    bypass_vector_index: Some(!vq.use_index),
                    full_text_query,
-                    ..Default::default()
+                    version: None,
                })
            }
            AnyQuery::Query(q) => {
@@ -2429,10 +2435,7 @@ impl NativeTable {

                let columns = match &q.select {
                    Select::All => None,
-                    Select::Columns(cols) => Some(Box::new(QueryTableRequestColumns {
-                        column_names: Some(cols.clone()),
-                        column_aliases: None,
-                    })),
+                    Select::Columns(cols) => self.namespace_columns(cols),
                    Select::Dynamic(_) => {
                        return Err(Error::NotSupported {
                            message: "Dynamic columns are not supported for server-side query"
@@ -2464,6 +2467,8 @@ impl NativeTable {
                });

                Ok(NsQueryTableRequest {
+                    identity: None,
+                    context: None,
                    id: None, // Will be set by caller
                    vector,
                    k: q.limit.unwrap_or(10) as i32,
@@ -2471,11 +2476,18 @@ impl NativeTable {
                    columns,
                    prefilter: Some(q.prefilter),
                    offset: q.offset.map(|o| o as i32),
+                    ef: None,
+                    refine_factor: None,
+                    distance_type: None,
+                    nprobes: None,
                    vector_column: None, // No vector column for plain queries
                    with_row_id: Some(q.with_row_id),
                    bypass_vector_index: Some(true), // No vector index for plain queries
                    full_text_query,
-                    ..Default::default()
+                    version: None,
+                    fast_search: None,
+                    lower_bound: None,
+                    upper_bound: None,
                })
            }
        }
@@ -3228,8 +3240,8 @@ impl BaseTable for NativeTable {
        Ok(results.into_iter().flatten().collect())
    }

-    async fn uri(&self) -> Result<String> {
-        Ok(self.uri.clone())
+    fn dataset_uri(&self) -> &str {
+        self.uri.as_str()
    }

    async fn storage_options(&self) -> Option<HashMap<String, String>> {
@@ -3237,7 +3249,7 @@ impl BaseTable for NativeTable {
            .get()
            .await
            .ok()
-            .and_then(|dataset| dataset.initial_storage_options().cloned())
+            .and_then(|dataset| dataset.storage_options().cloned())
    }

    async fn index_stats(&self, index_name: &str) -> Result<Option<IndexStatistics>> {
@@ -3402,6 +3414,7 @@ pub struct FragmentSummaryStats {
 #[cfg(test)]
 #[allow(deprecated)]
 mod tests {
+    use std::iter;
    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
    use std::sync::Arc;
    use std::time::Duration;
@@ -4018,7 +4031,7 @@ mod tests {
                schema.clone(),
                vec![
                    Arc::new(Int32Array::from_iter_values(offset..(offset + 10))),
-                    Arc::new(Int32Array::from_iter_values(std::iter::repeat_n(age, 10))),
+                    Arc::new(Int32Array::from_iter_values(iter::repeat(age).take(10))),
                ],
            )],
            schema,
@@ -5149,13 +5162,13 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(ns_request.k, 10);
        assert_eq!(ns_request.offset, Some(5));
        assert_eq!(ns_request.filter, Some("id > 0".to_string()));
-        assert_eq!(
-            ns_request
-                .columns
-                .as_ref()
-                .and_then(|c| c.column_names.as_ref()),
-            Some(&vec!["id".to_string()])
-        );
+        let column_names = ns_request
+            .columns
+            .as_ref()
+            .and_then(|c| c.column_names.as_ref())
+            .cloned()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(column_names, vec!["id".to_string()]);
        assert_eq!(ns_request.vector_column, Some("vector".to_string()));
        assert_eq!(ns_request.distance_type, Some("l2".to_string()));
        assert!(ns_request.vector.single_vector.is_some());
@@ -5196,13 +5209,13 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(ns_request.k, 20);
        assert_eq!(ns_request.offset, Some(5));
        assert_eq!(ns_request.filter, Some("id > 5".to_string()));
-        assert_eq!(
-            ns_request
-                .columns
-                .as_ref()
-                .and_then(|c| c.column_names.as_ref()),
-            Some(&vec!["id".to_string()])
-        );
+        let column_names = ns_request
+            .columns
+            .as_ref()
+            .and_then(|c| c.column_names.as_ref())
+            .cloned()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(column_names, vec!["id".to_string()]);
        assert_eq!(ns_request.with_row_id, Some(true));
        assert_eq!(ns_request.bypass_vector_index, Some(true));
        assert!(ns_request.vector_column.is_none()); // No vector column for plain queries
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/table/dataset.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/table/dataset.rs
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ impl DatasetRef {
                let should_checkout = match &target_ref {
                    refs::Ref::Version(_, Some(target_ver)) => version != target_ver,
                    refs::Ref::Version(_, None) => true, // No specific version, always checkout
-                    refs::Ref::Tag(_) => true,           // Always checkout for tags
                    refs::Ref::VersionNumber(target_ver) => version != target_ver,
+                    refs::Ref::Tag(_) => true, // Always checkout for tags
                };

                if should_checkout {
--- a/rust/lancedb/tests/embedding_registry_test.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/tests/embedding_registry_test.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 use std::{
    borrow::Cow,
    collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
+    iter::repeat,
    sync::Arc,
 };

@@ -267,10 +268,9 @@ fn create_some_records() -> Result<impl IntoArrow> {
            schema.clone(),
            vec![
                Arc::new(Int32Array::from_iter_values(0..TOTAL as i32)),
-                Arc::new(StringArray::from_iter(std::iter::repeat_n(
-                    Some("hello world".to_string()),
-                    TOTAL,
-                ))),
+                Arc::new(StringArray::from_iter(
+                    repeat(Some("hello world".to_string())).take(TOTAL),
+                )),
            ],
        )
        .unwrap()]