Bump version: 0.32.0-beta.1 → 0.32.0-beta.2

.agents/plugins/marketplace.json

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "lancedb",
-  "interface": {
-    "displayName": "LanceDB"
-  },
-  "plugins": [
-    {
-      "name": "lancedb",
-      "source": {
-        "source": "local",
-        "path": "./plugins/lancedb"
-      },
-      "policy": {
-        "installation": "AVAILABLE",
-        "authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
-      },
-      "category": "Developer Tools"
-    }
-  ]
-}

.agents/skills/README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,3 @@ This directory contains repo-scoped code agent skills for the LanceDB project.
 Each skill is a folder that contains a required `SKILL.md` and optional bundled resources.
 
 Codex discovers skills from `.agents/skills` in the current working directory and parent directories.
-
-The `lancedb` skill lives in the `plugins/lancedb` plugin (see `plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb`)
-so it can be installed via the plugin marketplaces (`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` and
-`.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`); the `lancedb` entry here is a symlink into that plugin.

.agents/skills/lancedb

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb

.agents/skills/lancedb-branch-ops/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+---
+name: lancedb-branch-ops
+description: >-
+  Manage LanceDB table branches through the REST API: list, create, and delete
+  branches; target schema reads, field-metadata updates, and index creation to a
+  named branch; and verify that branch changes remain isolated from main. Use
+  when a task involves branch lifecycle, an experimental or isolated table
+  version, directing an operation to a non-main branch, or confirming that a
+  mutation did not affect main. This skill also explains that LanceDB has no
+  checkout operation; each request selects its target branch in the request
+  body.
+---
+
+## Goal
+
+Manage branches on a LanceDB table: list what exists, create new ones, delete stale ones, and direct read/write operations at a specific branch without touching main.
+
+## Step 0: Establish the connection
+
+Use the `lancedb-connect` skill to resolve the base URL and auth headers (`x-api-key`, `x-lancedb-database`). Skip this only if the connection is already known from the current conversation.
+
+All examples below use `{base_url}` — substitute the resolved endpoint and include the auth headers on every request.
+
+## The branch model (important)
+
+LanceDB branches are named snapshots that diverge from the table's current state at creation time. There is **no checkout command** — you never switch the whole table to a branch. Instead, you **pass `"branch": "<name>"` in the request body** of any operation to target that branch. Omitting the key (or sending an empty body) always targets main.
+
+`branches/list` returns only non-main branches. Main always exists and is not listed.
+
+## List branches
+
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/branches/list
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{}
+```
+
+Response:
+```json
+{
+  "branches": {
+    "experiment-reindex": {"parentVersion": 1, "createAt": 1782506085, "manifestSize": 1029}
+  }
+}
+```
+
+If `branches` is `{}`, the table has no branches besides main.
+
+## Create a branch
+
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/branches/create
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{"name": "experiment-reindex"}
+```
+
+HTTP 200 with `{}` body = success. The branch is created off the table's current state on main.
+
+Verify by calling `branches/list` and confirming the new name appears.
+
+## Delete a branch
+
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/branches/delete
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{"name": "stale-2024"}
+```
+
+HTTP 200 with `{}` body = success. Only the branch pointer is removed — main and all row data remain intact.
+
+Verify by calling `branches/list` (name gone) and `describe` with no branch param (main still responds).
+
+## Operate on a specific branch
+
+Pass `"branch": "<name>"` in the body of any operation to scope it to that branch:
+
+**Read schema on a branch:**
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/describe
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{"branch": "wip-branch"}
+```
+
+**Write metadata to a branch (not main):**
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/update_field_metadata
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{
+  "branch": "wip-branch",
+  "updates": [
+    {
+      "path": "category",
+      "metadata": {"lancedb:description": "Product category label."},
+      "replace": false
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+**Build an index on a branch:**
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/create_index
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{
+  "branch": "wip-branch",
+  "column": "category",
+  "index_type": "BTREE"
+}
+```
+
+## Verifying isolation
+
+After writing to a branch, always confirm the change did NOT land on main:
+
+```bash
+# Should show the new metadata
+curl -s -X POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/describe \
+  -H "x-api-key: <key>" -H "x-lancedb-database: <db>" \
+  -H "content-type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"branch": "wip-branch"}'
+
+# Should NOT show the new metadata
+curl -s -X POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/describe \
+  -H "x-api-key: <key>" -H "x-lancedb-database: <db>" \
+  -H "content-type: application/json" \
+  -d '{}'
+```
+
+## Quick reference
+
+| Goal | Endpoint | Body |
+|------|----------|------|
+| List all branches | `branches/list` | `{}` |
+| Create a branch | `branches/create` | `{"name": "..."}` |
+| Delete a branch | `branches/delete` | `{"name": "..."}` |
+| Read schema on branch | `describe` | `{"branch": "..."}` |
+| Write metadata on branch | `update_field_metadata` | `{"branch": "...", "updates": [...]}` |
+| Build index on branch | `create_index` | `{"branch": "...", "column": ..., "index_type": ...}` |
+| Target main (default) | any endpoint | omit `"branch"` key |

.agents/skills/lancedb-column-metadata/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+---
+name: lancedb-column-metadata
+description: Column metadata authoring for LanceDB tables via the REST API. This skill is required for tasks like writing field descriptions, setting tags on columns (field_type, model, project_id, version), classifying columns as embeddings vs labels vs eval metrics, or grouping versioned columns into logical families — because it has the API integration needed to read the schema and persist metadata back. Invoke whenever someone wants to document, annotate, tag, or classify what their table columns ARE. Trigger even without an explicit "LanceDB" mention, as long as the context is column-level documentation or tagging for an ML or vector database table.
+metadata:
+  short-description: Write column descriptions, tags, and logical groupings to a LanceDB table
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+This skill authors column-level metadata for a LanceDB table. It connects to a LanceDB deployment over its REST API, inspects the table schema, generates appropriate metadata, and writes it back.
+
+## Step 0: Establish the connection
+
+Use the `lancedb-connect` skill (invoke it via the Skill tool) to resolve the base URL and auth headers (`x-api-key`, `x-lancedb-database`) for whichever deployment the user is working against — enterprise/self-hosted or a local dev server. Skip it only if the connection details are already established in the conversation.
+
+All examples below use `{base_url}` — substitute the resolved endpoint and include the resolved headers on every request.
+
+## Metadata keys
+
+All metadata uses namespaced keys:
+
+| Key | Purpose | Example value |
+|-----|---------|---------------|
+| `lancedb:description` | Human-readable explanation of what the column contains | `"CLIP ViT-L/14 image embedding, L2-normalized (768-dim)"` |
+| `lancedb:tag:<name>` | Flexible key-value tag; the suffix names the tag category | `lancedb:tag:field_type: "embedding"`, `lancedb:tag:model: "clip"`, `lancedb:tag:project_id: "foo"` |
+| `lancedb:logical-column` | Logical group/family this column belongs to | `"clip_features"` |
+
+Tags are open-ended — use whatever key suffix and value make sense given the user's intent. The tag suffix should describe *what is being classified* (e.g., `field_type`, `model`, `project_id`) and the value describes *how*.
+
+## Step 1: Resolve the table identifier
+
+You need:
+- **Table name** (required) — e.g., `my_table` or `my_namespace.my_table`
+- **Database name** — ask if not provided and not inferable from context; it goes in the `x-lancedb-database` header, never in the URL path
+
+The table identifier in the URL path is typically `table_name` for a top-level table, or `namespace$table_name` if the table lives in a namespace. The API accepts a `delimiter` query parameter to parse compound identifiers (default `$`).
+
+## Step 2: Describe the table
+
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/describe
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{}
+```
+
+The response contains `schema.fields` — an array of field objects:
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema": {
+    "fields": [
+      {
+        "name": "clip_embedding_v3",
+        "type": { "type": "FixedSizeList", "fields": [...], "listSize": 768 },
+        "nullable": true,
+        "metadata": { "lancedb:description": "..." }
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Each field has:
+- `name` — field name
+- `type` — Arrow data type (check `type.type` for the type string)
+- `nullable` — boolean
+- `metadata` — existing key-value metadata (read this before writing to avoid redundant updates)
+
+For struct/nested fields, recurse into `type.fields` and represent them as dot-notation paths (e.g., `parent.child`).
+
+If the user hasn't specified which columns to update, work with all columns.
+
+## Step 3: Generate metadata
+
+Decide what to generate based on the user's request.
+
+### Writing descriptions (`lancedb:description`)
+
+Base descriptions on:
+- The column name and Arrow type (e.g., `FixedSizeList` of floats → likely an embedding)
+- User-supplied context (upstream pipeline, sample values, domain knowledge)
+- Name patterns: `_embedding`/`_vec`/`_embed` → vector; `_label`/`_class` → label; `_score`/`_eval`/`_metric` → evaluation metric
+
+Be specific and concise. Good: `"Sentence-BERT embedding of the query text (768-dim)."` Not: `"An embedding column."`
+
+### Tagging columns (`lancedb:tag:<name>`)
+
+Choose tag key names that match what the user asked to annotate. Common patterns:
+
+- Semantic field type → `lancedb:tag:field_type: "embedding"` / `"text"` / `"image"` / `"label"` / `"eval"` / `"id"` / `"metadata"`
+- Model or source → `lancedb:tag:model: "clip"` / `"bert"` / `"vit"`
+- Project affiliation → `lancedb:tag:project_id: "<name>"`
+- Version → `lancedb:tag:version: "v3"` (and `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"` for the newest)
+
+Use Arrow type as a hint: `FixedSizeList` + float → embedding; `Utf8`/`LargeUtf8` → text; `Binary` → image or blob.
+
+Multiple tags on the same column are fine — each is a separate key.
+
+### Grouping into logical columns (`lancedb:logical-column`)
+
+Look for naming patterns across columns:
+- `clip_v1`, `clip_v2`, `clip_v3` → logical column `"clip"`, latest is `v3`
+- `text_embed_20240101`, `text_embed_20240601` → logical column `"text_embed"`, latest is the most recent date suffix
+
+Write `lancedb:logical-column` on all members of a group. Mark the newest with `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"` (in addition to its version tag).
+
+## Step 4: Write the metadata
+
+```http
+POST {base_url}/v1/table/{table_id}/update_field_metadata
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+{
+  "updates": [
+    {
+      "path": "clip_v3",
+      "metadata": {
+        "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-L/14 image embedding, L2-normalized (1024-dim).",
+        "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
+        "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
+        "lancedb:tag:version": "v3",
+        "lancedb:tag:latest": "true",
+        "lancedb:logical-column": "clip"
+      },
+      "replace": false
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "clip_v2",
+      "metadata": {
+        "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-B/32 image embedding (768-dim), superseded by v3.",
+        "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
+        "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
+        "lancedb:tag:version": "v2",
+        "lancedb:logical-column": "clip"
+      },
+      "replace": false
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Rules:
+- **Use `"replace": false`** (merge) by default — this preserves existing metadata the user didn't ask to change
+- Use `"replace": true` only if the user explicitly asks to overwrite all existing metadata on a column
+- Set a value to `null` to delete a specific key
+- Batch all updates in a single request when possible
+
+The response includes `version` (new table version) and `fields` (the updated metadata per field).
+
+## Step 5: Confirm
+
+Report back:
+- Which columns were updated and what was written
+- The new table version number
+- Any columns skipped (e.g., already had up-to-date metadata)
+
+---
+
+## Quick examples
+
+**"Write descriptions for all columns in the `product_embeddings` table"**
+1. POST `/v1/table/product_embeddings/describe` → get all fields
+2. Generate a `lancedb:description` for each column based on name + type
+3. POST `update_field_metadata` with descriptions
+4. Report
+
+**"Tag the columns in `model_outputs` with their field type and model"**
+1. Describe `model_outputs`
+2. For each field, classify by name + Arrow type → set `lancedb:tag:field_type` and `lancedb:tag:model` where applicable
+3. POST `update_field_metadata`
+4. Report
+
+**"Group the feature columns in `training_features` into logical families and mark the latest version"**
+1. Describe the table
+2. Find version patterns → assign `lancedb:logical-column` and `lancedb:tag:version`; mark newest with `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"`
+3. POST `update_field_metadata`
+4. Show the grouping

.agents/skills/lancedb-connect/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+---
+name: lancedb-connect
+description: Resolve how to connect to a LanceDB deployment over the REST API — figure out the base URL, API key, and database header. Use this before making any REST requests to a LanceDB table, whenever the endpoint or auth setup is not already known. Also useful on its own when someone asks how to connect, authenticate, or curl their LanceDB instance.
+metadata:
+  short-description: Resolve the base URL and auth headers for a LanceDB deployment
+---
+
+## Goal
+
+Produce two things every REST request needs:
+
+1. **Base URL** — the endpoint
+2. **Headers** — `x-api-key`, and usually `x-lancedb-database`
+
+## Resolution steps
+
+1. If the user already gave a URL and API key (or said which environment they're working against), use that.
+2. Otherwise, look for credentials already available in the environment:
+   - Env vars like `LANCEDB_URI` / `LANCEDB_HOST` / `LANCEDB_API_KEY`
+   - A LanceDB endpoint already running or port-forwarded locally (the REST default port is 2333, i.e. `http://localhost:2333`)
+3. If you didn't find both pieces, ask the user directly: **"What's your LanceDB endpoint's URL, and what's your API key?"** Also ask which database to use if it isn't obvious. Don't guess or probe further — the user knows their deployment.
+
+## Validating the connection
+
+Make a cheap authenticated request and check the status:
+
+```bash
+curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" "{base_url}/v1/table/?limit=1" \
+  -H "x-api-key: <key>" \
+  -H "x-lancedb-database: <database>"
+```
+
+- `200` — connection, key, and database header all good
+- `401` — API key missing or wrong
+- `400` mentioning a database header — this deployment expects `x-lancedb-database`
+
+## Non-REST equivalents
+
+If the caller would rather use the SDK or CLI than raw REST, the same credentials work:
+
+- Python SDK: `lancedb.connect("db://<database>", api_key="<key>", host_override="<base_url>")`
+- `lancedb` CLI: a `[profiles.<name>]` entry in `~/.lancedb/config.toml` with `http_server_url`, `api_key`, `database`

.agents/skills/lancedb/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: lancedb
-description: Use when writing, reviewing, debugging, or documenting LanceDB pipelines in Python or TypeScript, especially code that should work across local LanceDB OSS tables and remote LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud tables. Helps avoid non-portable full-table materialization, choose idiomatic query/search patterns, apply LanceDB performance defaults for ingestion, indexing, filtering, and diagnostics, and resolve connections to the remote server for Enterprise-only operations such as jobs.
+description: Use when writing, reviewing, debugging, or documenting LanceDB pipelines in Python or TypeScript, especially code that should work across local LanceDB OSS tables and remote LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud tables. Helps avoid non-portable full-table materialization, choose idiomatic query/search patterns, and apply LanceDB performance defaults for ingestion, indexing, filtering, and diagnostics.
 ---
 
 # Building LanceDB Pipelines
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Do NOT assume local-only table helpers exist on remote tables. If the user asks
 ## Workflow
 
 1. Identify the SDK: Python, TypeScript, or both.
-2. Identify the table mode: local/embedded OSS, remote Enterprise/Cloud, or portable across both. If the user says "LanceDB Enterprise", choose the remote table path. If the task involves jobs in any way (listing, inspecting, creating, or canceling jobs), it is always the remote path and requires a remote server connection — see "Connecting to the LanceDB remote server" below before doing anything else.
+2. Identify the table mode: local/embedded OSS, remote Enterprise/Cloud, or portable across both. If the user says "LanceDB Enterprise", choose the remote table path.
 3. Read the matching language branch before writing or changing code:
    - Python patterns: `references/python/patterns.md`
    - Python API quick reference: `references/python/api_reference.md`
@@ -27,11 +27,7 @@ Do NOT assume local-only table helpers exist on remote tables. If the user asks
    - TypeScript patterns: `references/typescript/patterns.md`
    - TypeScript API quick reference: `references/typescript/api_reference.md`
    - TypeScript performance guidance: `references/typescript/performance.md`
-   - Column metadata authoring (both SDKs): `references/column_metadata.md`
+4. Start with `patterns.md` for the selected SDK. Read `api_reference.md` when choosing method names or return collectors. Read `performance.md` when the task involves ingestion, indexing, filtering, query tuning, diagnostics, or large datasets.
-   - Branch operations (both SDKs): `references/branch_ops.md`
-   - Remote server connection resolution (jobs, raw REST): `references/remote_connect.md`
-   - Job operations REST API (list/describe/cancel/query_events): `references/remote_jobs.md`
-4. Start with `patterns.md` for the selected SDK. Read `api_reference.md` when choosing method names or return collectors. Read `performance.md` when the task involves ingestion, indexing, filtering, query tuning, diagnostics, or large datasets. Read `column_metadata.md` when the task is documenting, tagging, classifying, or grouping table columns (field descriptions, `lancedb:tag:*` tags, logical column families). Read `branch_ops.md` when the task involves branch lifecycle (list/create/delete), writing to a non-main branch, or verifying a change stayed off main. Read `remote_connect.md` when the task involves jobs or direct REST access to an Enterprise deployment, and `remote_jobs.md` for the job REST methods themselves (list, describe, cancel, query_events).
 5. For Python schemas, favor Pydantic models and validate records before writing. Use PyArrow schemas when Arrow-native, streaming, or highly dynamic data makes them materially better suited.
 6. Prefer `search()` or `query()` builders with explicit `select()` and `limit()` for reads.
 7. Avoid table-level full materialization in remote or portable code. This is the main local-vs-remote read pitfall.
@@ -72,10 +68,6 @@ Rules for portable Enterprise ingestion:
 
 This is Enterprise/Cloud-specific. Local/OSS tables have no separate data plane, so `mode="overwrite"` and immediate same-name reuse are fine there.
 
-## Connecting to the LanceDB remote server
-
-LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud deployments are served by a server implementing the lance-namespace OpenAPI spec (<https://github.com/lance-format/lance-namespace/blob/main/docs/src/spec.yaml>). Every remote (`db://...`) connection talks to such a server, and some operations exist only there. In particular, **all operations around jobs (listing, inspecting, creating, or canceling jobs) run server-side** — there is no local/OSS equivalent. Before any job work, or any direct REST call to an Enterprise deployment, read `references/remote_connect.md` to resolve the base URL, credentials, and database header and to validate the connection. Then use the four job REST methods documented in `references/remote_jobs.md` (list, describe, cancel, query_events).
-
 ## Script
 
 Run the scanner when reviewing or modifying an existing codebase:

.agents/skills/lancedb/references/python/api_reference.md

@@ -4,19 +4,12 @@ Quick method reference for Python LanceDB code. Cross-check source for non-trivi
 
 ## Connect
 
-If you're connecting to a remote database, use this:
 ```python
 import lancedb
 
-db = lancedb.connect("db://my-db", api_key=api_key, host_override=host_override) # remote
+db = lancedb.connect("./camelot-db")         # local/OSS
+db = lancedb.connect("db://my-db", api_key=api_key, region=region)  # remote
 ```
-(values may be found in LANCEDB_API_KEY and LANCEDB_HOST_OVERRIDE, either in env vars or a .env file)
-
-If you're connecting to a local table using OSS LanceDB, use this:
-```python
-db = lancedb.connect("./camelot-db") # local/OSS
-```
-If you're not sure which, or if you can't find the api_key or host_override params, ask the user.
 
 **Place the local database directory next to the script/entrypoint that opens it** (i.e. resolve the path relative to the script, `Path(__file__).parent / "camelot-db"`), not buried under a shared `data/` folder. The Lance dataset is the database, not a data file — keeping it beside its code makes ownership obvious and paths stable regardless of the working directory the script is launched from.
 
@@ -103,32 +96,6 @@ print(table.index_stats("vector_idx"))
 
 Use these before changing indexes or search tuning.
 
-## Column (Field) Metadata
-
-```python
-schema = table.schema                       # sync property; async: await table.schema()
-meta = schema.field("category").metadata    # dict[bytes, bytes] — Arrow metadata is bytes-keyed
-res = table.update_field_metadata(          # varargs: one dict per field; works local + remote
-    {"path": "category", "metadata": {"lancedb:description": "...", "lancedb:tag:field_type": "label"}}
-)
-res.version  # new table version
-```
-
-Merges by default; a `None` value deletes that key; `"replace": True` swaps the whole map. Nested fields use dot-paths (`"a.b.c"`). `replace_field_metadata` is deprecated. See `references/column_metadata.md` for key conventions (`lancedb:description`, `lancedb:tag:<name>`, `lancedb:logical-column`) and the authoring workflow.
-
-## Branches
-
-```python
-table.branches.list()                          # non-main branches; {} = only main
-exp = table.branches.create("exp")             # fork off main -> handle scoped to the branch
-wip = table.branches.checkout("wip")           # existing branch -> scoped handle (version= pins read-only)
-wip = db.open_table("t", branch="wip")         # or open scoped directly
-table.branches.delete("stale")                 # removes only the branch pointer
-table.current_branch()                         # None = main
-```
-
-There is no global switch — scoping is per table handle: any read/write on a branch handle lands on that branch; the original handle keeps targeting main. See `references/branch_ops.md` for the model and isolation checks.
-
 ## Maintenance
 
 ```python

.agents/skills/lancedb/references/typescript/api_reference.md

@@ -69,33 +69,6 @@ console.log(await table.indexStats("vector_idx"));
 
 Use these before changing indexes or search tuning.
 
-## Column (Field) Metadata
-
-```typescript
-const schema = await table.schema();
-const meta = schema.fields.find((f) => f.name === "category")?.metadata; // Map<string, string>
-const res = await table.updateFieldMetadata([
-  { path: "category", metadata: { "lancedb:description": "...", "lancedb:tag:field_type": "label" } },
-]);
-res.version; // new table version
-```
-
-Merges by default; a `null` value deletes that key; `replace: true` swaps the whole map. Nested fields use dot-paths (`"a.b.c"`). See `references/column_metadata.md` for key conventions (`lancedb:description`, `lancedb:tag:<name>`, `lancedb:logical-column`) and the authoring workflow.
-
-## Branches
-
-```typescript
-const branches = await table.branches();       // async manager
-await branches.list();                         // non-main branches; {} = only main
-const exp = await branches.create("exp");      // fork off main -> Table scoped to the branch
-const wip = await branches.checkout("wip");    // existing branch -> scoped Table (version arg pins read-only)
-const wip2 = await db.openTable("t", { branch: "wip" }); // or open scoped directly
-await branches.delete("stale");                // removes only the branch pointer
-table.currentBranch();                         // null = main
-```
-
-There is no global switch — scoping is per table handle: any read/write on a branch handle lands on that branch; the original handle keeps targeting main. See `references/branch_ops.md` for the model and isolation checks.
-
 ## Maintenance
 
 ```typescript

.bumpversion.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "0.37.1-beta.0"
+current_version = "0.32.0-beta.2"
 parse = """(?x)
     (?P<major>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
     (?P<minor>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
@@ -75,13 +75,6 @@ filename = "nodejs/Cargo.toml"
 replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""
 search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
 
-# The Python package takes its version from here (pyproject.toml declares
-# `dynamic = ["version"]`, so maturin reads it out of the crate manifest).
-[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
-filename = "python/Cargo.toml"
-replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""
-search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
-
 # Java documentation
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "docs/src/java/java.md"

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "lancedb",
-  "owner": {
-    "name": "LanceDB"
-  },
-  "description": "LanceDB plugins for Claude Code.",
-  "plugins": [
-    {
-      "name": "lancedb",
-      "source": "./plugins/lancedb",
-      "description": "Write, review, debug, and document LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript that work across local LanceDB OSS tables and remote LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud tables.",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
-      "author": {
-        "name": "LanceDB"
-      },
-      "category": "development"
-    }
-  ]
-}

.github/actions/create-failure-issue/action.yml

@@ -27,31 +27,19 @@ runs:
           # Extract failed job names
           FAILED_JOBS=$(echo "$JOB_RESULTS" | jq -r 'to_entries | map(select(.value.result == "failure")) | map(.key) | join(", ")')
 
-          TITLE="$WORKFLOW_NAME Failed ($FAILED_JOBS)"
+          # Create issue with workflow name, failed jobs, and run URL
-
+          gh issue create \
-          # This action now also runs on nightly schedules, so a breakage that
+            --title "$WORKFLOW_NAME Failed ($FAILED_JOBS)" \
-          # persists for a few days would otherwise file one issue per night.
+            --body "The workflow **$WORKFLOW_NAME** failed during execution.
-          # Comment on the open report instead when one already exists.
-          EXISTING=$(gh issue list --state open --label ci --limit 100 --json number,title \
-            | jq -r --arg title "$TITLE" 'map(select(.title == $title)) | .[0].number // empty')
-
-          if [ -n "$EXISTING" ]; then
-            gh issue comment "$EXISTING" --body "Failed again: $RUN_URL"
-            echo "Commented on existing issue #$EXISTING"
-          else
-            gh issue create \
-              --title "$TITLE" \
-              --body "The workflow **$WORKFLOW_NAME** failed during execution.
 
         **Failed jobs:** $FAILED_JOBS
 
         **Run URL:** $RUN_URL
 
         Please investigate the failed jobs and address any issues." \
-              --label "ci"
+            --label "ci"
 
-            echo "Issue created successfully"
+          echo "Issue created successfully"
-          fi
         else
           echo "No job failures detected, skipping issue creation"
         fi

.github/workflows/build_linux_wheel/action.yml

@@ -18,14 +18,6 @@ inputs:
     description: "The manylinux version to build for"
     required: false
     default: "2_17"
-  package-name:
-    description: "Override [project] name in python/pyproject.toml (e.g. 'lancedb-compat'). Default keeps 'lancedb'."
-    required: false
-    default: "lancedb"
-  rustflags:
-    description: "RUSTFLAGS for the build container, as a single whitespace-free token (e.g. '-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v2'). Empty leaves RUSTFLAGS unset, keeping the defaults from .cargo/config.toml."
-    required: false
-    default: ""
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
@@ -35,18 +27,6 @@ runs:
         ARM_BUILD: ${{ inputs.arm-build }}
       run: |
         echo "ARM BUILD: $ARM_BUILD"
-    - name: Patch package name for variant build
-      if: ${{ inputs.package-name != 'lancedb' }}
-      shell: bash
-      env:
-        PACKAGE_NAME: ${{ inputs.package-name }}
-      run: |
-        # Swap the [project] name so this build produces e.g. lancedb-compat
-        # wheels. The package still installs files under the lancedb/
-        # namespace -- import lancedb still works after pip install.
-        sed -i.bak 's/^name = "lancedb"$/name = "'"$PACKAGE_NAME"'"/' python/pyproject.toml
-        rm -f python/pyproject.toml.bak
-        grep '^name = ' python/pyproject.toml
     - name: Build x86_64 Manylinux wheel
       if: ${{ inputs.arm-build == 'false' }}
       uses: PyO3/maturin-action@v1
@@ -54,7 +34,7 @@ runs:
         maturin-version: "1.12.4"
         command: build
         working-directory: python
-        docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL='https://pypi.fury.io/lance-format/ https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/' -e PROTOC=/usr/local/bin/protoc ${{ inputs.rustflags != '' && format('-e RUSTFLAGS={0}', inputs.rustflags) || '' }}"
+        docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL='https://pypi.fury.io/lance-format/ https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/' -e PROTOC=/usr/local/bin/protoc"
         target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
         manylinux: ${{ inputs.manylinux }}
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}
@@ -71,7 +51,7 @@ runs:
         maturin-version: "1.12.4"
         command: build
         working-directory: python
-        docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL='https://pypi.fury.io/lance-format/ https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/' -e PROTOC=/usr/local/bin/protoc ${{ inputs.rustflags != '' && format('-e RUSTFLAGS={0}', inputs.rustflags) || '' }}"
+        docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL='https://pypi.fury.io/lance-format/ https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/' -e PROTOC=/usr/local/bin/protoc"
         target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
         manylinux: ${{ inputs.manylinux }}
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}

.github/workflows/cargo-publish.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ on:
       # We don't publish pre-releases for Rust. Crates.io is just a source
       # distribution, so we don't need to publish pre-releases.
       - "v*-beta*"
+      - "*-v*" # for example, python-vX.Y.Z
 
 env:
   # This env var is used by Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 for the cache

.github/workflows/gh-release.yml

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-name: GitHub Release
-
-# All SDKs share one version, so a single `vX.Y.Z` tag produces a single GitHub
-# release covering all of them. The per-package publish workflows (PyPI, NPM,
-# Cargo, Maven) trigger off the same tag independently.
-
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - "v*"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  gh-release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          lfs: true
-      - name: Extract version
-        id: extract_version
-        env:
-          GITHUB_REF: ${{ github.ref }}
-        run: |
-          set -e
-          echo "Extracting tag and version from $GITHUB_REF"
-          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*) ]]; then
-            VERSION=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
-            TAG=v$VERSION
-            echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          else
-            echo "Failed to extract version from $GITHUB_REF"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "Extracted version $VERSION from $GITHUB_REF"
-          if [[ $VERSION =~ beta ]]; then
-            echo "This is a beta release"
-            echo "prerelease=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-            # Get last release (that is not this one)
-            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
-              | grep ^v \
-              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
-              | python ci/semver_sort.py v \
-              | tail -n 1)
-          else
-            echo "This is a stable release"
-            echo "prerelease=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            # Get last stable tag (ignore betas)
-            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
-              | grep ^v \
-              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
-              | grep -v beta \
-              | python ci/semver_sort.py v \
-              | tail -n 1)
-          fi
-          echo "Found from tag $FROM_TAG"
-          echo "from_tag=$FROM_TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - name: Create Release Notes
-        id: release_notes
-        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4
-        with:
-          configuration: .github/release_notes.json
-          toTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
-          fromTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.from_tag }}
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Create GH release
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
-        with:
-          # Marking betas as pre-releases keeps them from taking the "Latest"
-          # badge on the releases page.
-          prerelease: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.prerelease }}
-          make_latest: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.prerelease == 'false' }}
-          tag_name: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          generate_release_notes: false
-          name: LanceDB v${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.version }}
-          body: ${{ steps.release_notes.outputs.changelog }}

.github/workflows/make-release-commit.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 name: Create release commit
 
-# This workflow increments the version, tags it, and pushes it. All SDKs share
+# This workflow increments versions, tags the version, and pushes it.
-# a single version, so one tag releases all of them.
 # When a tag is pushed, another workflow is triggered that creates a GH release
 # and uploads the binaries. This workflow is only for creating the tag.
 
 # This script will enforce that a minor version is incremented if there are any
-# breaking changes since the last minor increment. A breaking change in any SDK
+# breaking changes since the last minor increment. However, it isn't able to
-# bumps the minor version for all of them. If you wish to bypass this check, you
+# differentiate between breaking changes in Node versus Python. If you wish to
-# can manually increment the version and push the tag.
+# bypass this check, you can manually increment the version and push the tag.
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
@@ -25,6 +24,16 @@ on:
         options:
           - preview
           - stable
+      python:
+        description: 'Make a Python release'
+        required: true
+        default: true
+        type: boolean
+      other:
+        description: 'Make a Node/Rust/Java release'
+        required: true
+        default: true
+        type: boolean
       bump-minor:
         description: 'Bump minor version'
         required: true
@@ -56,16 +65,29 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git config user.name 'Lance Release'
           git config user.email 'lance-dev@lancedb.com'
-      - name: Bump version
+      - name: Bump Python version
+        if: ${{ inputs.python }}
+        working-directory: python
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # Need to get the commit before bumping the version, so we can
+          # determine if there are breaking changes in the next step as well.
+          echo "COMMIT_BEFORE_BUMP=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+          pip install bump-my-version PyGithub packaging
+          bash ../ci/bump_version.sh ${{ inputs.type }} ${{ inputs.bump-minor }} python-v
+      - name: Bump Node/Rust version
+        if: ${{ inputs.other }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           pip install bump-my-version PyGithub packaging
-          bash ci/bump_version.sh ${{ inputs.type }} ${{ inputs.bump-minor }}
+          bash ci/bump_version.sh ${{ inputs.type }} ${{ inputs.bump-minor }} v $COMMIT_BEFORE_BUMP
           bash ci/update_lockfiles.sh --amend
       - name: Push new version tag
         if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run }}
-        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@881a6320fdb16eb5318c5054f31c218aec2b324c # v1.3.0
+        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
         with:
           # Need to use PAT here too to trigger next workflow. See comment above.
           github_token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_RELEASE_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/nodejs.yml

@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@ jobs:
         sudo apt update
         sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
     - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-      with:
-        # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-        # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-        # caches to the creating ref.
-        save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
     - name: Format Rust
       run: cargo fmt --all -- --check
     - name: Lint Rust
@@ -108,11 +103,6 @@ jobs:
         cache: 'pnpm'
         cache-dependency-path: nodejs/pnpm-lock.yaml
     - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-      with:
-        # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-        # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-        # caches to the creating ref.
-        save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         sudo apt update
@@ -192,11 +182,6 @@ jobs:
         cache-dependency-path: nodejs/pnpm-lock.yaml
     - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
     - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-      with:
-        # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-        # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-        # caches to the creating ref.
-        save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         brew install protobuf

.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml

@@ -10,16 +10,10 @@ permissions:
 
 on:
   push:
+    branches:
+      - main
     tags:
       - "v*"
-  # The cross-compiled targets (musl especially) break from toolchain and
-  # dependency changes that nothing else in CI catches, and discovering that
-  # mid-release is expensive. A nightly run keeps that signal while dropping
-  # the full 8-target release matrix from all ~90 pushes to main each month.
-  # `report-failure` files an issue when a nightly breaks.
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "0 8 * * *"
-  workflow_dispatch:
   pull_request:
     # This should trigger a dry run (we skip the final publish step)
     paths:
@@ -32,6 +26,73 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
+  gh-release:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          lfs: true
+      - name: Extract version
+        id: extract_version
+        env:
+          GITHUB_REF: ${{ github.ref }}
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          echo "Extracting tag and version from $GITHUB_REF"
+          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*) ]]; then
+            VERSION=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+            TAG=v$VERSION
+            echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "Failed to extract version from $GITHUB_REF"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Extracted version $VERSION from $GITHUB_REF"
+          if [[ $VERSION =~ beta ]]; then
+            echo "This is a beta release"
+
+            # Get last release (that is not this one)
+            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
+              | grep ^v \
+              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
+              | python ci/semver_sort.py v \
+              | tail -n 1)
+          else
+            echo "This is a stable release"
+            # Get last stable tag (ignore betas)
+            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
+              | grep ^v \
+              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
+              | grep -v beta \
+              | python ci/semver_sort.py v \
+              | tail -n 1)
+          fi
+          echo "Found from tag $FROM_TAG"
+          echo "from_tag=$FROM_TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: Create Release Notes
+        id: release_notes
+        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4
+        with:
+          configuration: .github/release_notes.json
+          toTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
+          fromTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.from_tag }}
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Create GH release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          prerelease: ${{ contains('beta', github.ref) }}
+          tag_name: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          generate_release_notes: false
+          name: Node/Rust LanceDB v${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.version }}
+          body: ${{ steps.release_notes.outputs.changelog }}
+
   build-lancedb:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -40,18 +101,9 @@ jobs:
           - target: aarch64-apple-darwin
             host: macos-latest
             features: fp16kernels
-            pre_build: |-
+            pre_build: brew install protobuf
-              brew install protobuf
-              # Fat LTO (the workspace default in .cargo/config.toml) is
-              # single-threaded and is the peak-memory step of the build. On
-              # this runner it accounted for ~111 of the job's ~113 minutes,
-              # making it the critical path of the entire publish pipeline.
-              # ThinLTO parallelizes it across the runner's cores, for a few
-              # percent of runtime performance.
-              export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=thin
-              export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_CODEGEN_UNITS=16
           - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
-            host: windows-2025
+            host: windows-2025-8x-x64
             features: ","
             pre_build: |-
               choco install --no-progress protoc ninja nasm
@@ -59,19 +111,19 @@ jobs:
               # There is an issue where choco doesn't add nasm to the path
               export PATH="$PATH:/c/Program Files/NASM"
               nasm -v
-              # See the ThinLTO note on aarch64-apple-darwin above. Keeping
+              # Fat LTO of the cdylib is single-threaded and the peak-memory
-              # peak memory down is also what lets this run on the standard
+              # step of the build, and had started hitting rustc-LLVM OOM on the
-              # 4-core runner: the 8-core larger runner was only needed to
+              # Windows runners. ThinLTO parallelizes it across the runner's
-              # stop fat LTO from OOMing rustc-LLVM.
+              # cores and keeps peak memory well under the limit.
               export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=thin
               export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_CODEGEN_UNITS=16
           - target: aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
-            host: windows-2025
+            host: windows-2025-8x-x64
             features: ","
             pre_build: |-
                 choco install --no-progress protoc
                 rustup target add aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
-                # See the ThinLTO note on aarch64-apple-darwin above.
+                # See ThinLTO note on the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target above.
                 export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=thin
                 export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_CODEGEN_UNITS=16
           - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
@@ -146,49 +198,16 @@ jobs:
         with:
           toolchain: stable
           targets: ${{ matrix.settings.target }}
-      # These builds were entirely uncached: the old key was static, so
+      - name: Cache cargo
-      # `actions/cache` (which only writes on a miss) could never refresh it,
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
-      # and the multi-GB whole-`target/` copy it tried to store never fit the
-      # repo's cache budget, so no entry was ever saved. rust-cache prunes
-      # `target/` to dependency artifacts and keys on Cargo.lock plus the rustc
-      # version, which both fixes the key and keeps entries a sane size.
-      #
-      # This caches dependency *compilation* only. The LTO link of the cdylib
-      # re-runs regardless, since the local crate changes every time, so the
-      # win is larger on the non-LTO jobs than here.
-      - name: Cache cargo (native builds)
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        if: ${{ !matrix.settings.docker }}
         with:
-          # The release profile and per-target dirs differ from what the test
+          path: |
-          # workflows cache, so these need to be separate entries.
+            ~/.cargo/registry/index/
-          key: release-${{ matrix.settings.target }}
+            ~/.cargo/registry/cache/
-          # Only the nightly run on main writes, so tag and PR runs restore a
+            ~/.cargo/git/db/
-          # warm entry without every dependabot PR writing its own (which would
+            .cargo-cache
-          # be unreadable elsewhere anyway, since GitHub scopes caches to the
+            target/
-          # creating ref). The nightly cadence also keeps entries inside
+          key: nodejs-${{ matrix.settings.target }}-cargo-${{ matrix.settings.host }}
-          # GitHub's 7-day eviction window, which a tag-only trigger would not.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
-      # Docker builds can use rust-cache too. `target/` already lives on the
-      # host because the whole workspace is bind-mounted into the container, and
-      # rust-cache's prune and save run host-side, so they can manage it -- which
-      # is what keeps the entry to dependency artifacts rather than a multi-GB
-      # copy of everything.
-      #
-      # Two differences from the native builds. The container's CARGO_HOME is
-      # bind-mounted from `.cargo-cache` rather than the host's ~/.cargo, so that
-      # has to be cached explicitly. And the key is derived from the *host* rustc
-      # version, which is not the compiler that produced these artifacts; that is
-      # safe because cargo fingerprints the real compiler and rebuilds on a
-      # mismatch, it just means a base-image toolchain bump costs one cold build
-      # instead of invalidating the key.
-      - name: Cache cargo (docker builds)
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        if: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
-        with:
-          key: docker-${{ matrix.settings.target }}
-          cache-directories: .cargo-cache
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
       - name: Install Zig
@@ -206,13 +225,9 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
         with:
           image: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
-          # All three mounts must live under `.cargo-cache`, which is what the
-          # cache step above saves. Previously the registry mounts pointed at
-          # `.cargo/...`, a path nothing cached, so the container re-downloaded
-          # the whole crate registry on every run.
           options: "--user 0:0 -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo-cache/git/db:/usr/local/cargo/git/db \
-                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo-cache/registry/cache:/usr/local/cargo/registry/cache \
+                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo/registry/cache:/usr/local/cargo/registry/cache \
-                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo-cache/registry/index:/usr/local/cargo/registry/index \
+                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo/registry/index:/usr/local/cargo/registry/index \
                     -v ${{ github.workspace }}:/build -w /build/nodejs"
           run: |
             set -e
@@ -224,16 +239,6 @@ jobs:
               --js ../lancedb/native.js \
               --strip \
               --output-dir dist/
-      # The container runs as root (`--user 0:0`), so everything it wrote to the
-      # mounted cache dirs is root-owned. rust-cache's post step runs as the
-      # runner user and has to both read these and delete from them while
-      # pruning, so hand them back before it runs.
-      - name: Take ownership of docker build output
-        if: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
-        run: |
-          sudo chown -R "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
-            "${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo-cache" \
-            "${{ github.workspace }}/target"
       - name: Build
         run: |
           ${{ matrix.settings.pre_build }}
@@ -247,15 +252,6 @@ jobs:
               --output-dir dist/
         if: ${{ !matrix.settings.docker }}
         shell: bash
-      # The standard Windows runners have ~14 GB free, and a release `target/`
-      # for this workspace is a large fraction of that. Report the remaining
-      # headroom so a build that only just fits is visible before a dependency
-      # bump turns it into a failed release. `always()` so the numbers are
-      # still there when the build is what ran out of space.
-      - name: Report disk headroom
-        if: always()
-        run: df -h
-        shell: bash
       - name: Upload artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
@@ -406,9 +402,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Report Workflow Failure
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [build-lancedb, test-lancedb, publish]
-    # Nightly runs are the only thing watching the cross-compiled targets now,
+    if: always() && failure() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    # so they have to report failures too or the signal is silently lost.
-    if: always() && failure() && (startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') || github.event_name == 'schedule')
     permissions:
       contents: read
       issues: write

.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: PyPI Publish
 on:
   push:
     tags:
-      - 'v*'
+      - 'python-v*'
   pull_request:
     # This should trigger a dry run (we skip the final publish step)
     paths:
@@ -20,15 +20,9 @@ env:
 permissions:
   contents: read
 
-# Without this, a force-push to a PR leaves the previous run going -- including
-# a ~74 minute Windows job and a billed arm64 wheel build.
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 jobs:
   linux:
-    name: Python ${{ matrix.config.package_name }} ${{ matrix.config.platform }} manylinux${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
+    name: Python ${{ matrix.config.platform }} manylinux${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
     timeout-minutes: 60
     strategy:
       matrix:
@@ -37,28 +31,11 @@ jobs:
             manylinux: "2_28"
             extra_args: "--features fp16kernels"
             runner: ubuntu-22.04
-            package_name: "lancedb"
-            rustflags: ""
           # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
           - platform: aarch64
             manylinux: "2_28"
             extra_args: "--features fp16kernels"
             runner: ubuntu-2404-8x-arm64
-            package_name: "lancedb"
-            rustflags: ""
-          # `lancedb-compat`: pre-Haswell-friendly variant for x86_64 hosts
-          # without AVX2 (Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Westmere on Intel,
-          # Bulldozer / Piledriver / Steamroller on AMD). Compiled at the
-          # `x86-64-v2` baseline; runtime SIMD dispatch in lance-linalg
-          # picks the appropriate tier (scalar / AVX / AVX+FMA / AVX2+FMA
-          # / AVX-512) at load time. Same import as `lancedb` -- conflicts
-          # at install time, so users pick one.
-          - platform: x86_64
-            manylinux: "2_28"
-            extra_args: ""
-            runner: ubuntu-22.04
-            package_name: "lancedb-compat"
-            rustflags: "-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v2"
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -75,13 +52,11 @@ jobs:
           args: "--release --strip ${{ matrix.config.extra_args }}"
           arm-build: ${{ matrix.config.platform == 'aarch64' }}
           manylinux: ${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
-          package-name: ${{ matrix.config.package_name }}
-          rustflags: ${{ matrix.config.rustflags }}
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
-          name: wheels-linux-${{ matrix.config.package_name }}-${{ matrix.config.platform }}-${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
+          name: wheels-linux-${{ matrix.config.platform }}-${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
-          path: target/wheels/*.whl
+          path: target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
   mac:
     timeout-minutes: 90
@@ -107,7 +82,7 @@ jobs:
           python-minor-version: 10
           args: "--release --strip --target ${{ matrix.config.target }} --features fp16kernels"
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
           name: wheels-mac-${{ matrix.config.target }}
           path: target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl
@@ -128,26 +103,19 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      # NOTE: caching cargo here would be a no-op. This workflow only runs on
-      # tags and PRs, and GitHub only lets a run restore caches from its own ref
-      # or the default branch -- so with no run on main there is nothing that
-      # can populate an entry the release build would be allowed to read. Fixing
-      # this needs a main/nightly trigger (which would also catch wheel-build
-      # breakage before a release); the ~74 minutes here is otherwise dominated
-      # by the fat-LTO link, which no cache avoids.
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/build_windows_wheel
         with:
           python-minor-version: 10
           args: "--release --strip"
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
           name: wheels-windows
           path: target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
   publish:
     name: Publish wheels
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
     needs: [linux, mac, windows]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
@@ -177,7 +145,7 @@ jobs:
           FURY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FURY_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           shopt -s nullglob
-          WHEELS=(target/wheels/*.whl)
+          WHEELS=(target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl)
           if [[ ${#WHEELS[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
             echo "No wheels found in target/wheels/" >&2
             exit 1
@@ -196,6 +164,72 @@ jobs:
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
         with:
           packages-dir: target/wheels/
+  gh-release:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          lfs: true
+      - name: Extract version
+        id: extract_version
+        env:
+          GITHUB_REF: ${{ github.ref }}
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          echo "Extracting tag and version from $GITHUB_REF"
+          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/python-v(.*) ]]; then
+            VERSION=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+            TAG=python-v$VERSION
+            echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "Failed to extract version from $GITHUB_REF"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Extracted version $VERSION from $GITHUB_REF"
+          if [[ $VERSION =~ beta ]]; then
+            echo "This is a beta release"
+
+            # Get last release (that is not this one)
+            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
+              | grep ^python-v \
+              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
+              | python ci/semver_sort.py python-v \
+              | tail -n 1)
+          else
+            echo "This is a stable release"
+            # Get last stable tag (ignore betas)
+            FROM_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' \
+              | grep ^python-v \
+              | grep -vF "$TAG" \
+              | grep -v beta \
+              | python ci/semver_sort.py python-v \
+              | tail -n 1)
+          fi
+          echo "Found from tag $FROM_TAG"
+          echo "from_tag=$FROM_TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: Create Python Release Notes
+        id: python_release_notes
+        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4
+        with:
+          configuration: .github/release_notes.json
+          toTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
+          fromTag: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.from_tag }}
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Create Python GH release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          prerelease: ${{ contains('beta', github.ref) }}
+          tag_name: ${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          generate_release_notes: false
+          name: Python LanceDB v${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.version }}
+          body: ${{ steps.python_release_notes.outputs.changelog }}
   report-failure:
     name: Report Workflow Failure
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -203,7 +237,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read
       issues: write
-    if: always() && failure() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    if: always() && failure() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - uses: ./.github/actions/create-failure-issue

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -108,15 +108,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           sudo apt update
           sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler
-      # `pip install -e .` builds the extension with maturin, which is most of
-      # this job's ~33 minutes. It had no Rust cache, so every dependency was
-      # recompiled from scratch on every run.
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install
         run: |
           pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lance-format/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ -e .[tests,dev,embeddings]
@@ -177,14 +168,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      # maturin runs cargo natively on macOS (docker is Linux-only), so the host
-      # target dir is cacheable. This job had no Rust cache.
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/build_mac_wheel
         with:
           args: --profile ci
@@ -214,14 +197,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      # maturin runs cargo natively on Windows (docker is Linux-only), so the
-      # host target dir is cacheable. This job had no Rust cache at all and so
-      # rebuilt every dependency from scratch on every run.
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. The repo sits at
-          # GitHub's cache cap, so per-PR saves just evict main's entries.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/build_windows_wheel
         with:
           args: --profile ci
@@ -249,14 +224,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.10"
-      # As with Doctest, `pip install -e .` compiles the extension and this job
-      # had no Rust cache, which is most of its ~37 minutes.
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install lancedb
         run: |
           pip install "pydantic<2"

.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           components: rustfmt, clippy
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt update
@@ -94,11 +89,6 @@ jobs:
         run: rm -f Cargo.lock
       - uses: rui314/setup-mold@v1
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt update
@@ -108,7 +98,7 @@ jobs:
           cargo build --profile ci --benches --all-features --tests
 
   linux:
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    timeout-minutes: 30
     # To build all features, we need more disk space than is available
     # on the free OSS github runner. This is mostly due to the the
     # sentence-transformers feature.
@@ -128,11 +118,6 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           lfs: true
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt update
@@ -173,7 +158,7 @@ jobs:
         run: CARGO_ARGS="--profile ci" make -C ./lancedb remote-tests
 
   macos:
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    timeout-minutes: 30
     strategy:
       matrix:
         mac-runner: ["macos-14", "macos-15"]
@@ -190,11 +175,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: CPU features
         run: sysctl -a | grep cpu
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: brew install protobuf
       - name: Run tests
@@ -207,19 +187,12 @@ jobs:
           cargo test --profile ci --features $ALL_FEATURES --locked
 
   windows:
+    runs-on: windows-2022
     strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        include:
+        target:
-          - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+          - x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
-            runner: windows-2022
+          - aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
-          # windows-11-arm is a standard runner, so it is free on public repos.
-          # Running natively lets the aarch64 tests actually execute -- this
-          # job used to cross-compile them and then skip the test step, paying
-          # full codegen and link cost for a compile check.
-          - target: aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
-            runner: windows-11-arm
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: rust/lancedb
@@ -228,11 +201,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set target
         run: rustup target add ${{ matrix.target }}
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Install Protoc v21.12
         run: choco install --no-progress protoc
       - name: Build
@@ -240,12 +208,11 @@ jobs:
           $env:VCPKG_ROOT = $env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT
           cargo build --profile ci --features aws,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
-          # `--target` has to match the build step above. Without it cargo uses
+          cargo test --profile ci --features aws,remote --locked
-          # target/ci/ rather than target/<triple>/ci/ and rebuilds the entire
-          # dependency graph a second time.
-          cargo test --profile ci --features aws,remote --locked --target ${{ matrix.target }}
 
   msrv:
     # Check the minimum supported Rust version
@@ -271,11 +238,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           toolchain: ${{ matrix.msrv }}
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          # Restore everywhere, but only save from main. Per-PR saves are
-          # unreadable outside their own branch anyway, since GitHub scopes
-          # caches to the creating ref.
-          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
       - name: Downgrade  dependencies
         # These packages have newer requirements for MSRV
         run: |

AGENTS.md

@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ Python bindings changes:
     * Should use `LOOP.run()` to call the corresponding `AsyncTable` method.
 6. Add concrete sync method to `RemoteTable` class in `python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py`.
 7. Add unit test in `python/tests/test_table.py`.
-8. If you added a new public class or module-level function (not just a method on an
-   existing class), expose it in the API reference. See "Python API reference" below.
 
 TypeScript bindings changes:
 
@@ -105,33 +103,6 @@ TypeScript bindings changes:
 5. Add test in `nodejs/__test__/table.test.ts`.
 6. Run `npm run docs` to generate TypeScript documentation.
 
-## Python API reference
-
-`docs/src/python/python.md` is the entire Python API reference. It is maintained by
-hand, and anything not listed there is not rendered at all, so new public classes and
-module-level functions have to be added explicitly. How depends on the module:
-
-* `lancedb.index`, `lancedb.embeddings`, `lancedb.remote`, and `lancedb.rerankers` are
-  rendered by a single directive each, driven by the module's `__all__`. Add the new
-  name to `__all__` and it appears; forget, and it is silently omitted.
-* Everything else (`lancedb`, `lancedb.table`, `lancedb.query`, `lancedb.db`, ...) is
-  listed symbol by symbol. Add a `::: lancedb.<module>.<Name>` line to the matching
-  section, and remember that the page separates synchronous and asynchronous APIs.
-
-Deliberately undocumented: concrete implementations reached through an abstract base
-(`LanceTable`, `LanceDBConnection`, `RemoteDBConnection`), query base classes already
-covered by `inherited_members`, and internal helpers.
-
-Cross-references in docstrings use mkdocstrings syntax, `[text][lancedb.table.Table]`.
-Plain relative links such as `[Table](Table)` do not resolve. To check your work:
-
-```shell
-pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
-cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build
-```
-
-The docs site only builds on pushes to `main`, so this is not covered by PR CI.
-
 ## Review Guidelines
 
 Please consider the following when reviewing code contributions.

Cargo.toml

@@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ categories = ["database-implementations"]
 rust-version = "1.91.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-lance = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", default-features = false, "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", default-features = false, "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-core = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-core = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datagen = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datagen = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-file = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-file = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-io = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", default-features = false, "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-io = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", default-features = false, "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-index = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-index = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-linalg = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-linalg = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", default-features = false, "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-namespace-impls = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", default-features = false, "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-table = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-table = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-testing = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-testing = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-encoding = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-encoding = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
-lance-arrow = { "version" = "=10.0.0-beta.5", "tag" = "v10.0.0-beta.5", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
+lance-arrow = { "version" = "=9.0.0-beta.23", "tag" = "v9.0.0-beta.23", "git" = "https://github.com/lance-format/lance.git" }
 ahash = "0.8"
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
 arrow = { version = "58.0.0", optional = false }
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ arrow-schema = "58.0.0"
 arrow-select = "58.0.0"
 arrow-cast = "58.0.0"
 async-trait = "0"
-datafusion = { version = "54.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion = { version = "53.0.0", default-features = false }
-datafusion-catalog = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-catalog = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-common = { version = "54.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-common = { version = "53.0.0", default-features = false }
-datafusion-execution = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-execution = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-expr = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-expr = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-functions = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-functions = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-physical-plan = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-physical-plan = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-physical-expr = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-physical-expr = "53.0.0"
-datafusion-sql = "54.0.0"
+datafusion-sql = "53.0.0"
 env_logger = "0.11"
 half = { "version" = "2.7.1", default-features = false, features = [
     "num-traits",
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ snafu = "0.8"
 url = "2"
 num-traits = "0.2"
 regex = "1.10"
+lazy_static = "1"
 semver = "1.0.25"
 chrono = "0.4"
 

ci/bump_version.sh

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ set -e
 
 RELEASE_TYPE=${1:-"stable"}
 BUMP_MINOR=${2:-false}
-HEAD_SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+TAG_PREFIX=${3:-"v"} # Such as "python-v"
+HEAD_SHA=${4:-$(git rev-parse HEAD)}
 
-readonly TAG_PREFIX="v"
 readonly SELF_DIR=$(cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
 
 PREV_TAG=$(git tag --sort='version:refname' | grep ^$TAG_PREFIX | python $SELF_DIR/semver_sort.py $TAG_PREFIX | tail -n 1)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ echo "Found previous tag $PREV_TAG"
 
 # Initially, we don't want to tag if we are doing stable, because we will bump
 # again later. See comment at end for why.
-if [[ "$RELEASE_TYPE" == 'stable' ]]; then
+if [[ "$RELEASE_TYPE" == 'stable' ]]; then 
   BUMP_ARGS="--no-tag"
 fi
 

docs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -51,11 +51,6 @@ plugins:
           paths: [../python/python]
           options:
             docstring_style: numpy
-            docstring_options:
-              # Attributes documented in a `Parameters` section, and pydantic
-              # dataclasses whose `__init__` griffe cannot see statically, both
-              # trip this check. It reports nothing actionable here.
-              warn_unknown_params: false
             heading_level: 3
             show_signature_annotations: true
             show_root_heading: true

docs/openapi.yml

@@ -453,16 +453,6 @@ paths:
                     The metric type to use for the index. l2, Cosine, Dot are supported.
                 index_type:
                   type: string
-                custom_stop_words:
-                  type: [array, "null"]
-                  items:
-                    type: string
-                  description: |
-                    The custom stop-word list for an FTS index. A non-null
-                    array replaces the language's built-in stop-word list and is only
-                    applied when remove_stop_words is enabled. Null uses the built-in
-                    language list, while an empty array explicitly replaces it with no
-                    stop words.
       responses:
         "200":
           description: Index successfully created
@@ -520,4 +510,4 @@ paths:
         "401":
           $ref: "#/components/responses/unauthorized"
         "404":
-          $ref: "#/components/responses/not_found"
+          $ref: "#/components/responses/not_found"

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>0.37.1-beta.0</version>
+    <version>0.32.0-beta.2</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -249,57 +249,6 @@ try (BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator();
 }
 ```
 
-### Creating an Empty Table
-
-To create an empty table, send an Arrow IPC stream that contains the table schema and no record batches.
-The schema in the IPC stream becomes the table schema, and rows can be inserted later.
-
-```java
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableRequest;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableResponse;
-import org.apache.arrow.memory.BufferAllocator;
-import org.apache.arrow.memory.RootAllocator;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorSchemaRoot;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.ipc.ArrowStreamWriter;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.FloatingPointPrecision;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.ArrowType;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Field;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.FieldType;
-import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Schema;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.nio.channels.Channels;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-
-Schema schema = new Schema(Arrays.asList(
-    new Field("id", FieldType.nullable(new ArrowType.Int(32, true)), null),
-    new Field("name", FieldType.nullable(new ArrowType.Utf8()), null),
-    new Field("embedding",
-        FieldType.nullable(new ArrowType.FixedSizeList(128)),
-        Arrays.asList(new Field("item",
-            FieldType.nullable(new ArrowType.FloatingPoint(FloatingPointPrecision.SINGLE)),
-            null)))
-));
-
-byte[] emptyTableData;
-try (BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator();
-     VectorSchemaRoot root = VectorSchemaRoot.create(schema, allocator)) {
-    root.setRowCount(0);
-
-    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    try (ArrowStreamWriter writer = new ArrowStreamWriter(root, null, Channels.newChannel(out))) {
-        writer.start();
-        writer.end();
-    }
-    emptyTableData = out.toByteArray();
-}
-
-CreateTableRequest request = new CreateTableRequest();
-request.setId(Arrays.asList("my_namespace", "empty_table"));
-
-CreateTableResponse response = namespaceClient.createTable(request, emptyTableData);
-```
-
 ### Insert
 
 ```java
@@ -482,88 +431,9 @@ query.setVector(vector);
 byte[] result = namespaceClient.queryTable(query);
 ```
 
-## Indexing
+### Reading Query Results
 
-The Java SDK exposes the REST namespace index operations through the same `LanceNamespace` client.
+Query results are returned in Apache Arrow IPC file format. Here's how to read them:
-Index creation runs asynchronously, so use `listTableIndices` or `describeTableIndexStats` to check progress.
-
-### Creating a Vector Index
-
-```java
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableIndexRequest;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableIndexResponse;
-
-CreateTableIndexRequest request = new CreateTableIndexRequest();
-request.setId(Arrays.asList("my_namespace", "my_table"));
-request.setColumn("embedding");
-request.setIndexType("IVF_PQ");
-request.setDistanceType("cosine");
-request.setName("embedding_idx");
-
-CreateTableIndexResponse response = namespaceClient.createTableIndex(request);
-System.out.println("Index transaction: " + response.getTransactionId());
-```
-
-### Creating a Scalar Index
-
-```java
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableIndexRequest;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableScalarIndexResponse;
-
-CreateTableIndexRequest request = new CreateTableIndexRequest();
-request.setId(Arrays.asList("my_namespace", "my_table"));
-request.setColumn("category");
-request.setIndexType("BTREE");
-request.setName("category_idx");
-
-CreateTableScalarIndexResponse response = namespaceClient.createTableScalarIndex(request);
-System.out.println("Index transaction: " + response.getTransactionId());
-```
-
-### Creating a Full Text Search Index
-
-```java
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableIndexRequest;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.CreateTableScalarIndexResponse;
-
-CreateTableIndexRequest request = new CreateTableIndexRequest();
-request.setId(Arrays.asList("my_namespace", "my_table"));
-request.setColumn("text_column");
-request.setIndexType("FTS");
-request.setName("text_idx");
-request.setBaseTokenizer("simple");
-request.setLowerCase(true);
-request.setWithPosition(true);
-
-CreateTableScalarIndexResponse response = namespaceClient.createTableScalarIndex(request);
-System.out.println("Index transaction: " + response.getTransactionId());
-```
-
-### Listing Indexes
-
-```java
-import org.lance.namespace.model.IndexContent;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.ListTableIndicesRequest;
-import org.lance.namespace.model.ListTableIndicesResponse;
-
-ListTableIndicesRequest request = new ListTableIndicesRequest();
-request.setId(Arrays.asList("my_namespace", "my_table"));
-
-ListTableIndicesResponse response = namespaceClient.listTableIndices(request);
-for (IndexContent index : response.getIndexes()) {
-    System.out.println(index.getIndexName() + ": " + index.getStatus());
-}
-```
-
-!!! note
-    The current Java namespace API exposes index type, index name, distance type, and full text search tokenizer options.
-    IVF training parameters such as `num_partitions` are not exposed by `CreateTableIndexRequest` yet.
-    To make those configurable from Java, the namespace API must add those fields first.
-
-## Reading Query Results
-
-Query results are returned as bytes in Apache Arrow IPC file format. Put the byte-channel
-adapter behind a small helper so query code can work with `ArrowFileReader` directly:
 
 ```java
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.ipc.ArrowFileReader;
@@ -571,50 +441,45 @@ import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorSchemaRoot;
 import org.apache.arrow.memory.BufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.arrow.memory.RootAllocator;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel;
 
-final class ArrowIpc {
+// Helper class to read Arrow data from byte array
-    static ArrowFileReader openFileReader(byte[] data, BufferAllocator allocator) throws IOException {
+class ByteArraySeekableByteChannel implements SeekableByteChannel {
-        return new ArrowFileReader(new ByteArraySeekableByteChannel(data), allocator);
+    private final byte[] data;
+    private long position = 0;
+    private boolean isOpen = true;
+
+    public ByteArraySeekableByteChannel(byte[] data) {
+        this.data = data;
     }
 
-    private static final class ByteArraySeekableByteChannel implements SeekableByteChannel {
+    @Override
-        private final byte[] data;
+    public int read(ByteBuffer dst) {
-        private long position = 0;
+        int remaining = dst.remaining();
-        private boolean isOpen = true;
+        int available = (int) (data.length - position);
-
+        if (available <= 0) return -1;
-        private ByteArraySeekableByteChannel(byte[] data) {
+        int toRead = Math.min(remaining, available);
-            this.data = data;
+        dst.put(data, (int) position, toRead);
-        }
+        position += toRead;
-
+        return toRead;
-        @Override
-        public int read(ByteBuffer dst) {
-            int remaining = dst.remaining();
-            int available = (int) (data.length - position);
-            if (available <= 0) return -1;
-            int toRead = Math.min(remaining, available);
-            dst.put(data, (int) position, toRead);
-            position += toRead;
-            return toRead;
-        }
-
-        @Override public long position() { return position; }
-        @Override public SeekableByteChannel position(long newPosition) { position = newPosition; return this; }
-        @Override public long size() { return data.length; }
-        @Override public boolean isOpen() { return isOpen; }
-        @Override public void close() { isOpen = false; }
-        @Override public int write(ByteBuffer src) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
-        @Override public SeekableByteChannel truncate(long size) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
     }
+
+    @Override public long position() { return position; }
+    @Override public SeekableByteChannel position(long newPosition) { position = newPosition; return this; }
+    @Override public long size() { return data.length; }
+    @Override public boolean isOpen() { return isOpen; }
+    @Override public void close() { isOpen = false; }
+    @Override public int write(ByteBuffer src) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+    @Override public SeekableByteChannel truncate(long size) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
 }
 
 // Read query results
 byte[] queryResult = namespaceClient.queryTable(query);
 
 try (BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator();
-     ArrowFileReader reader = ArrowIpc.openFileReader(queryResult, allocator)) {
+     ArrowFileReader reader = new ArrowFileReader(
+         new ByteArraySeekableByteChannel(queryResult), allocator)) {
 
     for (int i = 0; i < reader.getRecordBlocks().size(); i++) {
         reader.loadRecordBatch(reader.getRecordBlocks().get(i));

docs/src/js/_media/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Contributing to LanceDB Typescript
 
 This document outlines the process for contributing to LanceDB Typescript.
-For general contribution guidelines, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+For general contribution guidelines, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 ## Project layout
 

docs/src/js/classes/Branches.md

@@ -83,24 +83,6 @@ Delete a branch.
 
 ***
 
-### diff()
-
-```ts
-diff(fromBranch): Promise<BranchDiff>
-```
-
-Compare a branch against main without modifying either branch.
-
-#### Parameters
-
-* **fromBranch**: `string`
-
-#### Returns
-
-`Promise`&lt;[`BranchDiff`](../interfaces/BranchDiff.md)&gt;
-
-***
-
 ### list()
 
 ```ts
@@ -112,28 +94,3 @@ List all branches, mapping name to branch metadata.
 #### Returns
 
 `Promise`&lt;`Record`&lt;`string`, [`BranchContents`](BranchContents.md)&gt;&gt;
-
-***
-
-### merge()
-
-```ts
-merge(fromBranch, dryRun): Promise<MergeBranchResult>
-```
-
-Merge a branch into main.
-
-Set `dryRun` to `true` to preview the merge. A rejected merge resolves
-with `status: "rejected"` instead of throwing.
-
-#### Parameters
-
-* **fromBranch**: `string`
-    Branch to merge from.
-
-* **dryRun**: `boolean` = `false`
-    When true, only preview the merge. Defaults to false.
-
-#### Returns
-
-`Promise`&lt;[`MergeBranchResult`](../interfaces/MergeBranchResult.md)&gt;

docs/src/js/classes/MergeInsertBuilder.md

@@ -76,23 +76,24 @@ the query optimizer chooses a suboptimal path.
 
 ***
 
-### useLsm()
+### useLsmWrite()
 
 ```ts
-useLsm(enable): MergeInsertBuilder
+useLsmWrite(useLsmWrite): MergeInsertBuilder
 ```
 
-Control MemWAL routing for this merge.
+Controls whether the merge uses the MemWAL LSM write path.
 
 By default (unset), a `mergeInsert` on a table with an LSM write spec is
-routed through Lance's MemWAL shard writer, and a table without one uses the
+routed through Lance's MemWAL shard writer, and a table without one uses
-standard path.
+the standard path. Pass `false` to force the standard path even when a
+spec is set. Pass `true` to require a spec — `mergeInsert` rejects if none
+is installed.
 
 #### Parameters
 
-* **enable**: `boolean`
+* **useLsmWrite**: `boolean`
-    `true` forces MemWAL routing and errors if the table has no
+    Whether to use the LSM write path.
-    LSM write spec. `false` forces the standard write path even when a spec is set.
 
 #### Returns
 

docs/src/js/classes/Query.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ protected inner: Query | Promise<Query>;
 ### analyzePlan()
 
 ```ts
-analyzePlan(distributedMetrics?): Promise<string>
+analyzePlan(): Promise<string>
 ```
 
 Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime metrics.
@@ -41,12 +41,6 @@ Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime me
 This is useful for debugging and performance analysis, as it shows how the query was executed
 and includes metrics such as elapsed time, rows processed, and I/O statistics.
 
-#### Parameters
-
-* **distributedMetrics?**: [`AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics`](../type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md)
-    How distributed worker metrics are displayed for remote query plans.
-    Defaults to `"aggregate"`.
-
 #### Returns
 
 `Promise`&lt;`string`&gt;
@@ -497,42 +491,6 @@ ArrowTable.
 
 ***
 
-### useLsm()
-
-```ts
-useLsm(enable): this
-```
-
-Control MemWAL read routing for this query.
-
-By default (unset), when the table carries a MemWAL write spec (see
-[Table#setLsmWriteSpec](Table.md#setlsmwritespec)), reads are routed through the LSM scanner so
-they also return data written via the `mergeInsert` LSM path that has not yet
-been compacted into the base table (the active/frozen in-memory memtables and
-the flushed generations), deduplicated by primary key; a table without a spec
-reads the base table.
-
-#### Parameters
-
-* **enable**: `boolean`
-    `true` forces the LSM scanner and errors if the table has no
-    MemWAL write spec. `false` bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only,
-    even when a spec is present.
-    Note: the LSM scanner does not support every query shape (e.g. reranking,
-    hybrid search, `orderBy`). On a MemWAL table those shapes error unless
-    `useLsm(false)` is set, because a base-only read would silently exclude
-    un-compacted MemWAL data.
-
-#### Returns
-
-`this`
-
-#### Inherited from
-
-`StandardQueryBase.useLsm`
-
-***
-
 ### where()
 
 ```ts

docs/src/js/classes/QueryBase.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ protected inner: NativeQueryType | Promise<NativeQueryType>;
 ### analyzePlan()
 
 ```ts
-analyzePlan(distributedMetrics?): Promise<string>
+analyzePlan(): Promise<string>
 ```
 
 Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime metrics.
@@ -46,12 +46,6 @@ Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime me
 This is useful for debugging and performance analysis, as it shows how the query was executed
 and includes metrics such as elapsed time, rows processed, and I/O statistics.
 
-#### Parameters
-
-* **distributedMetrics?**: [`AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics`](../type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md)
-    How distributed worker metrics are displayed for remote query plans.
-    Defaults to `"aggregate"`.
-
 #### Returns
 
 `Promise`&lt;`string`&gt;

docs/src/js/classes/TakeQuery.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ protected inner: TakeQuery | Promise<TakeQuery>;
 ### analyzePlan()
 
 ```ts
-analyzePlan(distributedMetrics?): Promise<string>
+analyzePlan(): Promise<string>
 ```
 
 Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime metrics.
@@ -37,12 +37,6 @@ Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime me
 This is useful for debugging and performance analysis, as it shows how the query was executed
 and includes metrics such as elapsed time, rows processed, and I/O statistics.
 
-#### Parameters
-
-* **distributedMetrics?**: [`AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics`](../type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md)
-    How distributed worker metrics are displayed for remote query plans.
-    Defaults to `"aggregate"`.
-
 #### Returns
 
 `Promise`&lt;`string`&gt;
@@ -273,29 +267,6 @@ ArrowTable.
 
 ***
 
-### useLsm()
-
-```ts
-useLsm(enable): this
-```
-
-Control MemWAL read routing for this take query.
-
-`false` bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only — the escape hatch,
-since take-by-row-id/offset is not supported on the LSM scanner and, on a
-MemWAL table, auto-routes to it and errors otherwise.
-
-#### Parameters
-
-* **enable**: `boolean`
-    `false` reads the base table only.
-
-#### Returns
-
-`this`
-
-***
-
 ### withRowId()
 
 ```ts

docs/src/js/classes/VectorQuery.md

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ addQueryVector(vector): VectorQuery
 ### analyzePlan()
 
 ```ts
-analyzePlan(distributedMetrics?): Promise<string>
+analyzePlan(): Promise<string>
 ```
 
 Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime metrics.
@@ -59,12 +59,6 @@ Executes the query and returns the physical query plan annotated with runtime me
 This is useful for debugging and performance analysis, as it shows how the query was executed
 and includes metrics such as elapsed time, rows processed, and I/O statistics.
 
-#### Parameters
-
-* **distributedMetrics?**: [`AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics`](../type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md)
-    How distributed worker metrics are displayed for remote query plans.
-    Defaults to `"aggregate"`.
-
 #### Returns
 
 `Promise`&lt;`string`&gt;
@@ -746,42 +740,6 @@ ArrowTable.
 
 ***
 
-### useLsm()
-
-```ts
-useLsm(enable): this
-```
-
-Control MemWAL read routing for this query.
-
-By default (unset), when the table carries a MemWAL write spec (see
-[Table#setLsmWriteSpec](Table.md#setlsmwritespec)), reads are routed through the LSM scanner so
-they also return data written via the `mergeInsert` LSM path that has not yet
-been compacted into the base table (the active/frozen in-memory memtables and
-the flushed generations), deduplicated by primary key; a table without a spec
-reads the base table.
-
-#### Parameters
-
-* **enable**: `boolean`
-    `true` forces the LSM scanner and errors if the table has no
-    MemWAL write spec. `false` bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only,
-    even when a spec is present.
-    Note: the LSM scanner does not support every query shape (e.g. reranking,
-    hybrid search, `orderBy`). On a MemWAL table those shapes error unless
-    `useLsm(false)` is set, because a base-only read would silently exclude
-    un-compacted MemWAL data.
-
-#### Returns
-
-`this`
-
-#### Inherited from
-
-`StandardQueryBase.useLsm`
-
-***
-
 ### where()
 
 ```ts

docs/src/js/globals.md

@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@
 - [AddDataOptions](interfaces/AddDataOptions.md)
 - [AddResult](interfaces/AddResult.md)
 - [AlterColumnsResult](interfaces/AlterColumnsResult.md)
-- [BranchColumnChange](interfaces/BranchColumnChange.md)
-- [BranchColumnSummary](interfaces/BranchColumnSummary.md)
-- [BranchDiff](interfaces/BranchDiff.md)
-- [BranchIndexSummary](interfaces/BranchIndexSummary.md)
-- [BranchRowCountSummary](interfaces/BranchRowCountSummary.md)
 - [ClientConfig](interfaces/ClientConfig.md)
 - [ColumnAlteration](interfaces/ColumnAlteration.md)
 - [ColumnOrdering](interfaces/ColumnOrdering.md)
@@ -91,9 +86,6 @@
 - [ListNamespacesOptions](interfaces/ListNamespacesOptions.md)
 - [ListNamespacesResponse](interfaces/ListNamespacesResponse.md)
 - [LsmWriteSpec](interfaces/LsmWriteSpec.md)
-- [MergeBlocker](interfaces/MergeBlocker.md)
-- [MergeBranchResult](interfaces/MergeBranchResult.md)
-- [MergePreview](interfaces/MergePreview.md)
 - [MergeResult](interfaces/MergeResult.md)
 - [NativeOAuthConfig](interfaces/NativeOAuthConfig.md)
 - [OAuthConfig](interfaces/OAuthConfig.md)
@@ -126,7 +118,6 @@
 
 ## Type Aliases
 
-- [AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics](type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md)
 - [BaseTokenizer](type-aliases/BaseTokenizer.md)
 - [Data](type-aliases/Data.md)
 - [DataLike](type-aliases/DataLike.md)

docs/src/js/interfaces/BranchColumnChange.md

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / BranchColumnChange
-
-# Interface: BranchColumnChange
-
-A column whose definition differs between main and the branch.
-
-## Properties
-
-### branch
-
-```ts
-branch: BranchColumnSummary;
-```
-
-***
-
-### main
-
-```ts
-main: BranchColumnSummary;
-```
-
-***
-
-### name
-
-```ts
-name: string;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/BranchColumnSummary.md

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / BranchColumnSummary
-
-# Interface: BranchColumnSummary
-
-Summary of a column in a branch diff.
-
-## Properties
-
-### dataType
-
-```ts
-dataType: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### name
-
-```ts
-name: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### nullable
-
-```ts
-nullable: boolean;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/BranchDiff.md

@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / BranchDiff
-
-# Interface: BranchDiff
-
-Read-only comparison of a branch against main.
-
-## Properties
-
-### addedColumns
-
-```ts
-addedColumns: BranchColumnSummary[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### addedIndexes
-
-```ts
-addedIndexes: BranchIndexSummary[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### baseMoved
-
-```ts
-baseMoved: boolean;
-```
-
-***
-
-### branchVersion
-
-```ts
-branchVersion: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### changedColumns
-
-```ts
-changedColumns: BranchColumnChange[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### fromBranch
-
-```ts
-fromBranch: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### mainVersion
-
-```ts
-mainVersion: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### mergeBlockers
-
-```ts
-mergeBlockers: MergeBlocker[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### mergeable
-
-```ts
-mergeable: boolean;
-```
-
-***
-
-### parentVersion
-
-```ts
-parentVersion: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### removedColumns
-
-```ts
-removedColumns: BranchColumnSummary[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### removedIndexes
-
-```ts
-removedIndexes: BranchIndexSummary[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### rowCountBranch
-
-```ts
-rowCountBranch: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### rowCountMain
-
-```ts
-rowCountMain: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### rowSummary
-
-```ts
-rowSummary: BranchRowCountSummary;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/BranchIndexSummary.md

@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / BranchIndexSummary
-
-# Interface: BranchIndexSummary
-
-Summary of an index in a branch diff.
-
-## Properties
-
-### columns
-
-```ts
-columns: string[];
-```
-
-***
-
-### indexName
-
-```ts
-indexName: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### indexType?
-
-```ts
-optional indexType: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### status
-
-```ts
-status: string;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/BranchRowCountSummary.md

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / BranchRowCountSummary
-
-# Interface: BranchRowCountSummary
-
-Row-level comparison between main and the branch.
-
-## Properties
-
-### deltaAvailable
-
-```ts
-deltaAvailable: boolean;
-```
-
-***
-
-### inputsChanged
-
-```ts
-inputsChanged: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### newOnBase
-
-```ts
-newOnBase: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### newOnBranch
-
-```ts
-newOnBranch: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### staleRecompute
-
-```ts
-staleRecompute: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### unchanged
-
-```ts
-unchanged: number;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/FtsOptions.md

@@ -43,34 +43,6 @@ The following tokenizers are available:
 
 ***
 
-### blockSize?
-
-```ts
-optional blockSize: 128 | 256;
-```
-
-Number of documents per compressed posting block.
-
-The default is 128. Supported values are 128 and 256. A value of 256 uses
-the experimental FTS V3 format and may introduce breaking changes.
-
-***
-
-### customStopWords?
-
-```ts
-optional customStopWords: string[];
-```
-
-Custom stop words that replace the built-in list for `language`.
-
-This option only affects tokenization when `removeStopWords` is true.
-
-`undefined` keeps the built-in language list. An empty array explicitly
-replaces it with no stop words.
-
-***
-
 ### language?
 
 ```ts

docs/src/js/interfaces/MergeBlocker.md

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / MergeBlocker
-
-# Interface: MergeBlocker
-
-A reason why a branch cannot currently be merged.
-
-## Properties
-
-### code
-
-```ts
-code: string;
-```
-
-***
-
-### message
-
-```ts
-message: string;
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/MergeBranchResult.md

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / MergeBranchResult
-
-# Interface: MergeBranchResult
-
-Result of previewing or attempting a branch merge.
-
-## Properties
-
-### diff
-
-```ts
-diff: BranchDiff;
-```
-
-***
-
-### mainVersionAfter?
-
-```ts
-optional mainVersionAfter: number;
-```
-
-***
-
-### preview
-
-```ts
-preview: MergePreview;
-```
-
-***
-
-### status
-
-```ts
-status:
-  | "unknown"
-  | "rejected"
-  | "ready"
-  | "notImplemented"
-  | "merged";
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/MergePreview.md

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / MergePreview
-
-# Interface: MergePreview
-
-Changes that would be, or were, promoted by a branch merge.
-
-## Properties
-
-### promotedColumns
-
-```ts
-promotedColumns: string[];
-```

docs/src/js/interfaces/TokenizeOptions.md

@@ -30,21 +30,6 @@ The tokenizer to use. The default is "simple".
 
 ***
 
-### customStopWords?
-
-```ts
-optional customStopWords: string[];
-```
-
-Custom stop words that replace the built-in list for `language`.
-
-This option only affects tokenization when `removeStopWords` is true.
-
-`undefined` keeps the built-in language list. An empty array explicitly
-replaces it with no stop words.
-
-***
-
 ### language?
 
 ```ts

docs/src/js/type-aliases/AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics.md

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-[**@lancedb/lancedb**](../README.md) • **Docs**
-
-***
-
-[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics
-
-# Type Alias: AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics
-
-```ts
-type AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics: "aggregate" | "per_worker" | "full";
-```

docs/src/python/python.md

@@ -26,18 +26,6 @@ is also an [asynchronous API client](#connections-asynchronous).
 
 ::: lancedb.db.DBConnection
 
-::: lancedb.Session
-
-## Namespaces (Synchronous)
-
-A namespace-backed connection resolves tables through a
-[Lance namespace](https://lancedb.github.io/lance-namespace/) service instead of
-listing a storage directory.
-
-::: lancedb.connect_namespace
-
-::: lancedb.namespace.LanceNamespaceDBConnection
-
 ## Tables (Synchronous)
 
 ::: lancedb.table.Table
@@ -46,12 +34,8 @@ listing a storage directory.
 
 ::: lancedb.table.FragmentSummaryStats
 
-::: lancedb.table.TableStatistics
-
 ::: lancedb.table.Tags
 
-::: lancedb.table.Branches
-
 ## Expressions
 
 Type-safe expression builder for filters and projections. Use these instead
@@ -78,46 +62,29 @@ of raw SQL strings with [where][lancedb.query.LanceQueryBuilder.where] and
 
 ::: lancedb.query.LanceHybridQueryBuilder
 
-::: lancedb.query.LanceEmptyQueryBuilder
-
-::: lancedb.query.LanceTakeQueryBuilder
-
-## Full text queries
-
-Structured full text queries can be passed to
-[Table.search][lancedb.table.Table.search] or
-[AsyncTable.search][lancedb.table.AsyncTable.search] in place of a query string,
-and combined with [BooleanQuery][lancedb.query.BooleanQuery].
-
-::: lancedb.query.FullTextQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.MatchQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.PhraseQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.BoostQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.MultiMatchQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.BooleanQuery
-
-::: lancedb.query.FullTextOperator
-
-::: lancedb.query.Occur
-
 ## Embeddings
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings
+::: lancedb.embeddings.registry.EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
-    options:
+
-      show_root_heading: false
+::: lancedb.embeddings.base.EmbeddingFunctionConfig
-      show_root_toc_entry: false
+
+::: lancedb.embeddings.base.EmbeddingFunction
+
+::: lancedb.embeddings.base.TextEmbeddingFunction
+
+::: lancedb.embeddings.sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformerEmbeddings
+
+::: lancedb.embeddings.openai.OpenAIEmbeddings
+
+::: lancedb.embeddings.open_clip.OpenClipEmbeddings
 
 ## Remote configuration
 
-::: lancedb.remote
+::: lancedb.remote.ClientConfig
-    options:
+
-      show_root_heading: false
+::: lancedb.remote.TimeoutConfig
-      show_root_toc_entry: false
+
+::: lancedb.remote.RetryConfig
 
 ## Context
 
@@ -127,50 +94,11 @@ and combined with [BooleanQuery][lancedb.query.BooleanQuery].
 
 ## Full text search
 
-Pass `custom_stop_words` to [lancedb.index.FTS][]:
+Use [lancedb.table.Table.create_fts_index][] for the synchronous API or
+[lancedb.table.AsyncTable.create_index][] with [lancedb.index.FTS][] for the
+asynchronous API.
 
-```python
+::: lancedb.index.FTS
-from lancedb.index import FTS
-
-table.create_index(
-    "text",
-    config=FTS(remove_stop_words=True, custom_stop_words=["acme", "internal"]),
-)
-```
-
-The list replaces the built-in stop words and is used only when
-`remove_stop_words=True`:
-
-- `custom_stop_words=None` uses the built-in list for `language`.
-- `custom_stop_words=[]` removes no words.
-- Values are passed through without trimming, lowercasing, or other rewriting.
-
-The same option is available on `lancedb.tokenize(...)` and the deprecated
-[lancedb.table.Table.create_fts_index][] compatibility helper:
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-
-tokens = list(lancedb.tokenize("acme makes searchable data",
-                               custom_stop_words=["acme"]))
-```
-
-::: lancedb.tokenize
-
-::: lancedb.FtsToken
-
-## Blobs
-
-Blob columns store large binary values out of line so they can be read lazily
-instead of being materialized with the rest of the row.
-
-::: lancedb.blob
-
-::: lancedb.BlobType
-
-::: lancedb._blob.BlobFile
-    options:
-      show_root_full_path: false
 
 ## Utilities
 
@@ -178,14 +106,6 @@ instead of being materialized with the rest of the row.
 
 ::: lancedb.merge.LanceMergeInsertBuilder
 
-::: lancedb.otel.instrument_lancedb_metrics
-
-## Exceptions
-
-::: lancedb.exceptions.MissingValueError
-
-::: lancedb.exceptions.MissingColumnError
-
 ## Integrations
 
 ## Pydantic
@@ -194,30 +114,19 @@ instead of being materialized with the rest of the row.
 
 ::: lancedb.pydantic.vector
 
-::: lancedb.pydantic.Vector
-
-::: lancedb.pydantic.MultiVector
-
 ::: lancedb.pydantic.LanceModel
 
-## PyTorch
-
-::: lancedb.streaming.StreamingDataset
-
-::: lancedb.permutation.permutation_builder
-
-::: lancedb.permutation.PermutationBuilder
-
-::: lancedb.permutation.Permutation
-
-::: lancedb.permutation.Transforms
-
 ## Reranking
 
-::: lancedb.rerankers
+::: lancedb.rerankers.linear_combination.LinearCombinationReranker
-    options:
+
-      show_root_heading: false
+::: lancedb.rerankers.cohere.CohereReranker
-      show_root_toc_entry: false
+
+::: lancedb.rerankers.colbert.ColbertReranker
+
+::: lancedb.rerankers.cross_encoder.CrossEncoderReranker
+
+::: lancedb.rerankers.openai.OpenaiReranker
 
 ## Connections (Asynchronous)
 
@@ -228,12 +137,6 @@ can be used to create, list, or open tables.
 
 ::: lancedb.db.AsyncConnection
 
-## Namespaces (Asynchronous)
-
-::: lancedb.connect_namespace_async
-
-::: lancedb.namespace.AsyncLanceNamespaceDBConnection
-
 ## Tables (Asynchronous)
 
 Table hold your actual data as a collection of records / rows.
@@ -242,20 +145,32 @@ Table hold your actual data as a collection of records / rows.
 
 ::: lancedb.table.AsyncTags
 
-::: lancedb.table.AsyncBranches
-
 ## Indices (Asynchronous)
 
 Indices can be created on a table to speed up queries. This section
 lists the indices that LanceDb supports.
 
-::: lancedb.index
+::: lancedb.index.BTree
-    options:
+
-      show_root_heading: false
+::: lancedb.index.Bitmap
-      show_root_toc_entry: false
+
-      # `lang_mapping` is defined in the module rather than imported, so it is
+::: lancedb.index.LabelList
-      # picked up despite not being in `__all__`. It is an internal lookup table.
+
-      filters: ["!^_", "!^lang_mapping$"]
+::: lancedb.index.FTS
+
+::: lancedb.index.IvfPq
+
+::: lancedb.index.HnswPq
+
+::: lancedb.index.HnswSq
+
+::: lancedb.index.IvfFlat
+
+::: lancedb.index.IvfSq
+
+::: lancedb.index.IvfRq
+
+::: lancedb.index.HnswFlat
 
 ::: lancedb.table.IndexStatistics
 
@@ -283,7 +198,3 @@ rows nearest to a query vector and can be created with the
 ::: lancedb.query.AsyncHybridQuery
     options:
       inherited_members: true
-
-::: lancedb.query.AsyncTakeQuery
-    options:
-      inherited_members: true

java/lancedb-core/pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <parent>
       <groupId>com.lancedb</groupId>
       <artifactId>lancedb-parent</artifactId>
-      <version>0.37.1-beta.0</version>
+      <version>0.32.0-beta.2</version>
       <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 

java/pom.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.lancedb</groupId>
     <artifactId>lancedb-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.37.1-beta.0</version>
+    <version>0.32.0-beta.2</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
     <description>LanceDB Java SDK Parent POM</description>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <arrow.version>15.0.0</arrow.version>
-        <lance-core.version>10.0.0-beta.5</lance-core.version>
+        <lance-core.version>9.0.0-beta.23</lance-core.version>
         <spotless.skip>false</spotless.skip>
         <spotless.version>2.30.0</spotless.version>
         <spotless.java.googlejavaformat.version>1.7</spotless.java.googlejavaformat.version>

nodejs/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Contributing to LanceDB Typescript
 
 This document outlines the process for contributing to LanceDB Typescript.
-For general contribution guidelines, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+For general contribution guidelines, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 ## Project layout
 

nodejs/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "lancedb-nodejs"
 edition.workspace = true
-version = "0.37.1-beta.0"
+version = "0.32.0-beta.2"
 publish = false
 license.workspace = true
 description.workspace = true

nodejs/__test__/arrow.test.ts

@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
       Float64,
       Struct,
       List,
-      Map_,
       Int16,
       Int32,
       Int64,
@@ -70,30 +69,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
     type Schema = ApacheArrow["Schema"];
     type Table = ApacheArrow["Table"];
 
-    function expectValidMapField(
-      // biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: Arrow Field types vary across supported versions
-      field: any,
-    ): void {
-      expect(DataType.isMap(field.type)).toBe(true);
-      expect(field.type.keysSorted).toBe(true);
-      expect(field.type.children).toHaveLength(1);
-
-      const entries = field.type.children[0];
-      expect(entries.name).toBe("entries");
-      expect(entries.nullable).toBe(false);
-      expect(DataType.isStruct(entries.type)).toBe(true);
-      expect(entries.type.children).toHaveLength(2);
-
-      const [key, value] = entries.type.children;
-      expect([key.name, value.name]).toEqual(["key", "value"]);
-      expect(key.nullable).toBe(false);
-      expect(DataType.isUtf8(key.type)).toBe(true);
-      expect(value.nullable).toBe(true);
-      expect(DataType.isInt(value.type)).toBe(true);
-      expect(value.type.bitWidth).toBe(32);
-      expect(value.type.isSigned).toBe(true);
-    }
-
     // Helper method to verify various ways to create a table
     async function checkTableCreation(
       tableCreationMethod: (
@@ -963,65 +938,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
           false,
         );
       });
-
-      it("will make an empty table with a Map field", async function () {
-        const schema = new Schema([
-          new Field(
-            "attributes",
-            new Map_(
-              new Field(
-                "entries",
-                new Struct([
-                  new Field("key", new Utf8(), false),
-                  new Field("value", new Int32(), true),
-                ]),
-                false,
-              ),
-              true,
-            ),
-          ),
-        ]);
-
-        const table = makeEmptyTable(schema);
-
-        expectValidMapField(table.schema.fields[0]);
-
-        const buffer = await fromTableToBuffer(table);
-        const roundTripped = tableFromIPC(buffer);
-
-        expectValidMapField(roundTripped.schema.fields[0]);
-      });
-
-      it("preserves string schema metadata", function () {
-        const metadata = new Map([["source", "fixture"]]);
-        const schema = new Schema(
-          [new Field("value", new Int32(), true)],
-          metadata,
-        );
-
-        expect(makeEmptyTable(schema).schema.metadata.get("source")).toBe(
-          "fixture",
-        );
-      });
-
-      it.each([
-        ["non-string keys", new Map<unknown, unknown>([[42, "fixture"]])],
-        ["non-string values", new Map<unknown, unknown>([["source", 42]])],
-        [
-          "non-string keys and values",
-          new Map<unknown, unknown>([[42, false]]),
-        ],
-      ])("rejects schema metadata with %s", function (_, metadataLike) {
-        const metadata = metadataLike as unknown as Map<string, string>;
-        const schema = new Schema(
-          [new Field("value", new Int32(), true)],
-          metadata,
-        );
-
-        expect(() => makeEmptyTable(schema)).toThrow(
-          "Expected metadata, if present, to be a Map<string, string> but it had non-string keys or values",
-        );
-      });
     });
 
     describe("when using two versions of arrow", function () {

nodejs/__test__/remote.test.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import {
   OAuthHeaderProvider,
   StaticHeaderProvider,
 } from "../lancedb/header";
-import { Index } from "../lancedb/indices";
 
 // Test-only header providers
 class CustomProvider extends HeaderProvider {
@@ -226,166 +225,6 @@ describe("remote connection", () => {
     );
   });
 
-  it("sends FTS options to remote tables", async () => {
-    let createIndexBody: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
-
-    await withMockDatabase(
-      (req, res) => {
-        const path = req.url ?? "";
-        if (path.endsWith("/describe/")) {
-          res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }).end(
-            JSON.stringify({
-              name: "t",
-              version: 1,
-              schema: {
-                fields: [
-                  { name: "text", type: { type: "string" }, nullable: false },
-                ],
-              },
-            }),
-          );
-          return;
-        }
-
-        if (path.endsWith("/create_index/")) {
-          let raw = "";
-          req.on("data", (chunk) => {
-            raw += chunk;
-          });
-          req.on("end", () => {
-            createIndexBody = JSON.parse(raw);
-            res.writeHead(200).end();
-          });
-          return;
-        }
-
-        res.writeHead(404).end();
-      },
-      async (db) => {
-        const table = await db.openTable("t");
-        await table.createIndex("text", {
-          config: Index.fts({
-            blockSize: 256,
-            removeStopWords: true,
-            customStopWords: ["the"],
-          }),
-        });
-      },
-    );
-
-    expect(createIndexBody?.["column"]).toBe("text");
-    expect(createIndexBody?.["index_type"]).toBe("FTS");
-    expect(createIndexBody?.["block_size"]).toBe(256);
-    expect(createIndexBody?.["custom_stop_words"]).toEqual(["the"]);
-  });
-
-  it("diffs and merges remote branches", async () => {
-    const sampleDiff = {
-      fromBranch: "exp",
-      parentVersion: 1,
-      mainVersion: 2,
-      branchVersion: 3,
-      baseMoved: false,
-      rowCountMain: 3,
-      rowCountBranch: 3,
-      rowSummary: {
-        unchanged: 3,
-        newOnBase: 0,
-        newOnBranch: 0,
-        staleRecompute: 0,
-        inputsChanged: 0,
-        deltaAvailable: false,
-      },
-      addedColumns: [{ name: "tag", dataType: "utf8", nullable: true }],
-      removedColumns: [],
-      changedColumns: [],
-      addedIndexes: [],
-      removedIndexes: [],
-      mergeable: true,
-      mergeBlockers: [],
-    };
-    const mergeBodies: Record<string, unknown>[] = [];
-
-    await withMockDatabase(
-      (req, res) => {
-        const path = req.url ?? "";
-        if (path.endsWith("/describe/")) {
-          res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }).end(
-            JSON.stringify({
-              name: "t",
-              version: 2,
-              schema: { fields: [] },
-            }),
-          );
-          return;
-        }
-
-        let raw = "";
-        req.on("data", (chunk) => {
-          raw += chunk;
-        });
-        req.on("end", () => {
-          const body = raw ? JSON.parse(raw) : {};
-          if (path.endsWith("/branches/diff/")) {
-            // biome-ignore lint/style/useNamingConvention: snake_case mandated by the server wire format
-            expect(body).toEqual({ from_branch: "exp" });
-            res
-              .writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" })
-              .end(JSON.stringify(sampleDiff));
-            return;
-          }
-          if (path.endsWith("/branches/merge/")) {
-            mergeBodies.push(body);
-            const dryRun = body["dry_run"] === true;
-            const response = {
-              status: dryRun ? "ready" : "rejected",
-              diff: dryRun
-                ? sampleDiff
-                : {
-                    ...sampleDiff,
-                    mergeable: false,
-                    mergeBlockers: [
-                      { code: "baseMoved", message: "main has advanced" },
-                    ],
-                  },
-              preview: { promotedColumns: dryRun ? ["tag"] : [] },
-            };
-            res
-              .writeHead(dryRun ? 200 : 409, {
-                "Content-Type": "application/json",
-              })
-              .end(JSON.stringify(response));
-            return;
-          }
-          res.writeHead(404).end();
-        });
-      },
-      async (db) => {
-        const table = await db.openTable("t");
-        const branches = await table.branches();
-
-        await expect(branches.diff("exp")).resolves.toEqual(sampleDiff);
-
-        const rejected = await branches.merge("exp");
-        expect(rejected.status).toBe("rejected");
-        expect(rejected.diff.mergeBlockers).toEqual([
-          { code: "baseMoved", message: "main has advanced" },
-        ]);
-
-        const preview = await branches.merge("exp", true);
-        expect(preview.status).toBe("ready");
-        expect(preview.preview.promotedColumns).toEqual(["tag"]);
-      },
-    );
-
-    expect(mergeBodies).toEqual([
-      // biome-ignore lint/style/useNamingConvention: snake_case mandated by the server wire format
-      { from_branch: "exp", dry_run: false },
-      // biome-ignore lint/style/useNamingConvention: snake_case mandated by the server wire format
-      { from_branch: "exp", dry_run: true },
-    ]);
-  });
-
   describe("TlsConfig", () => {
     it("should create TlsConfig with all fields", () => {
       const tlsConfig: TlsConfig = {

nodejs/__test__/sanitize.test.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
 
 import * as arrow from "../lancedb/arrow";
-import { sanitizeField, sanitizeMap, sanitizeType } from "../lancedb/sanitize";
+import { sanitizeField, sanitizeType } from "../lancedb/sanitize";
 
 describe("sanitize", function () {
   describe("sanitizeType function", function () {
@@ -181,15 +181,4 @@ describe("sanitize", function () {
       );
     });
   });
-
-  describe("sanitizeMap function", function () {
-    it.each([
-      ["no children", []],
-      ["two children", [{}, {}]],
-    ])("should reject a Map type with %s", function (_, children) {
-      expect(() => sanitizeMap({ children, keysSorted: false })).toThrow(
-        "Expected a Map type to have exactly one child",
-      );
-    });
-  });
 });

nodejs/__test__/table.test.ts

@@ -527,14 +527,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
       );
     });
 
-    it("should expose useLsm on takeRowIds as the base-only escape hatch", async () => {
-      await table.add([{ id: 1 }, { id: 2 }, { id: 3 }]);
-      // useLsm(false) is reachable on TakeQuery (the escape hatch for MemWAL tables,
-      // where take-by-row-id auto-routes to the LSM scanner and is rejected).
-      const res = await table.takeRowIds([0, 2]).useLsm(false).toArray();
-      expect(res.map((r) => r.id)).toEqual([1, 3]);
-    });
-
     it("should throw for negative number in takeRowIds", () => {
       expect(() => table.takeRowIds([-1])).toThrow("Row id cannot be negative");
       expect(() => table.takeRowIds([0, -5, 2])).toThrow(
@@ -2535,35 +2527,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
       expect(results3.length).toBe(1);
     });
 
-    test("full text search with custom posting block size", async () => {
-      const db = await connect(tmpDir.name);
-      const data = [
-        { text: "hello world", vector: [0.1, 0.2, 0.3] },
-        { text: "goodbye world", vector: [0.4, 0.5, 0.6] },
-      ];
-      const table = await db.createTable("test", data);
-      await table.createIndex("text", {
-        config: Index.fts({ blockSize: 256 }),
-      });
-
-      const index = (await table.listIndices()).find(
-        (index) => index.indexType === "FTS",
-      );
-      expect(index?.indexVersion).toBe(3);
-      expect(
-        (index?.indexDetails as Record<string, unknown>)["block_size"],
-      ).toBe(256);
-
-      const results = await table.search("hello").toArray();
-      expect(results[0].text).toBe(data[0].text);
-    });
-
-    test("rejects invalid full text posting block size", () => {
-      expect(() => Index.fts({ blockSize: 129 as 128 | 256 })).toThrow(
-        "128 or 256",
-      );
-    });
-
     test("full text search without lowercase", async () => {
       const db = await connect(tmpDir.name);
       const data = [
@@ -2769,15 +2732,6 @@ describe.each([arrow15, arrow16, arrow17, arrow18])(
   },
 );
 
-test("tokenize supports custom stop words", async () => {
-  const tokens = await tokenize("the lance data", {
-    stem: false,
-    removeStopWords: true,
-    customStopWords: ["lance"],
-  });
-  expect(tokens.map((token) => token.text)).toEqual(["the", "data"]);
-});
-
 describe("when calling explainPlan", () => {
   let tmpDir: tmp.DirResult;
   let table: Table;
@@ -2821,13 +2775,8 @@ describe("when calling analyzePlan", () => {
       .fill(1)
       .map(() => Math.random());
     const plan = await table.query().nearestTo(queryVec).analyzePlan();
+    console.log("Query Plan:\n", plan); // <--- Print the plan
     expect(plan).toMatch("AnalyzeExec");
-
-    const fullPlan = await table
-      .query()
-      .nearestTo(queryVec)
-      .analyzePlan("full");
-    expect(fullPlan).toMatch("AnalyzeExec");
   });
 });
 
@@ -3216,14 +3165,14 @@ describe("LSM merge insert", () => {
     await table.closeLsmWriters();
   });
 
-  it("falls back to the standard path with useLsm(false)", async () => {
+  it("falls back to the standard path with useLsmWrite(false)", async () => {
     const conn = await connect(tmpDir.name);
     const table = await bucketTable(conn);
 
     const res = await table
       .mergeInsert("id")
       .whenNotMatchedInsertAll()
-      .useLsm(false)
+      .useLsmWrite(false)
       .execute([
         { id: "b", value: 9 },
         { id: "e", value: 5 },
@@ -3257,36 +3206,4 @@ describe("LSM merge insert", () => {
         .execute([{ id: "g", value: 7 }]),
     ).rejects.toThrow();
   });
-
-  it("auto-routes reads through the MemWAL scanner", async () => {
-    const conn = await connect(tmpDir.name);
-    const table = await bucketTable(conn); // base ids "a", "b"
-
-    await table
-      .mergeInsert("id")
-      .whenMatchedUpdateAll()
-      .whenNotMatchedInsertAll()
-      .execute([{ id: "c", value: 3 }]);
-
-    // Default read auto-routes and includes the active memtable row.
-    const lsm = await table.query().toArray();
-    expect(lsm.map((r) => r.id).sort()).toEqual(["a", "b", "c"]);
-
-    // useLsm(false) bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only.
-    const baseOnly = await table.query().useLsm(false).toArray();
-    expect(baseOnly.map((r) => r.id).sort()).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
-  });
-
-  it("reads the base table when no LSM spec is installed", async () => {
-    const conn = await connect(tmpDir.name);
-    const table = await conn.createEmptyTable(
-      "plain",
-      new arrow.Schema([new arrow.Field("id", new arrow.Utf8(), false)]),
-    );
-    // No spec: default read and useLsm(false) both succeed against the base table.
-    await expect(table.query().toArray()).resolves.toBeDefined();
-    await expect(table.query().useLsm(false).toArray()).resolves.toBeDefined();
-    // useLsm(true) demands MemWAL routing; without a spec it errors.
-    await expect(table.query().useLsm(true).toArray()).rejects.toThrow();
-  });
 });

nodejs/examples/full_text_search.test.ts

@@ -29,14 +29,8 @@ test("full text search", async () => {
     const tbl = await db.createTable("myVectors", data, { mode: "overwrite" });
 
     await tbl.createIndex("doc", {
-      config: lancedb.Index.fts({
+      config: lancedb.Index.fts(),
-        stem: false,
-        removeStopWords: true,
-        customStopWords: ["banana"],
-      }),
     });
-    const tokens = await tbl.tokenize("apple banana", { column: "doc" });
-    expect(tokens.map((token) => token.text)).toEqual(["apple"]);
 
     // --8<-- [start:full_text_search]
     const result = await tbl

nodejs/lancedb/index.ts

@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ export {
   QueryBase,
   VectorQuery,
   TakeQuery,
-  AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics,
   QueryExecutionOptions,
   ColumnOrdering,
   FullTextSearchOptions,
@@ -124,14 +123,6 @@ export {
 export {
   Table,
   Branches,
-  BranchColumnSummary,
-  BranchColumnChange,
-  BranchIndexSummary,
-  BranchRowCountSummary,
-  MergeBlocker,
-  BranchDiff,
-  MergePreview,
-  MergeBranchResult,
   AddDataOptions,
   UpdateOptions,
   OptimizeOptions,
@@ -194,16 +185,6 @@ export interface TokenizeOptions {
   /** Whether to remove stop words. */
   removeStopWords?: boolean;
 
-  /**
-   * Custom stop words that replace the built-in list for `language`.
-   *
-   * This option only affects tokenization when `removeStopWords` is true.
-   *
-   * `undefined` keeps the built-in language list. An empty array explicitly
-   * replaces it with no stop words.
-   */
-  customStopWords?: string[];
-
   /** Whether to fold ASCII characters. */
   asciiFolding?: boolean;
 
@@ -235,7 +216,6 @@ export async function tokenize(
     options?.lowercase,
     options?.stem,
     options?.removeStopWords,
-    options?.customStopWords,
     options?.asciiFolding,
     options?.ngramMinLength,
     options?.ngramMaxLength,

nodejs/lancedb/indices.ts

@@ -553,16 +553,6 @@ export interface FtsOptions {
    */
   removeStopWords?: boolean;
 
-  /**
-   * Custom stop words that replace the built-in list for `language`.
-   *
-   * This option only affects tokenization when `removeStopWords` is true.
-   *
-   * `undefined` keeps the built-in language list. An empty array explicitly
-   * replaces it with no stop words.
-   */
-  customStopWords?: string[];
-
   /**
    * whether to remove punctuation
    */
@@ -582,14 +572,6 @@ export interface FtsOptions {
    * whether to only index the prefix of the token for ngram tokenizer
    */
   prefixOnly?: boolean;
-
-  /**
-   * Number of documents per compressed posting block.
-   *
-   * The default is 128. Supported values are 128 and 256. A value of 256 uses
-   * the experimental FTS V3 format and may introduce breaking changes.
-   */
-  blockSize?: 128 | 256;
 }
 
 export class Index {
@@ -765,12 +747,10 @@ export class Index {
         options?.lowercase,
         options?.stem,
         options?.removeStopWords,
-        options?.customStopWords,
         options?.asciiFolding,
         options?.ngramMinLength,
         options?.ngramMaxLength,
         options?.prefixOnly,
-        options?.blockSize,
       ),
     );
   }

nodejs/lancedb/merge.ts

@@ -88,17 +88,21 @@ export class MergeInsertBuilder {
     );
   }
   /**
-   * Control MemWAL routing for this merge.
+   * Controls whether the merge uses the MemWAL LSM write path.
    *
    * By default (unset), a `mergeInsert` on a table with an LSM write spec is
-   * routed through Lance's MemWAL shard writer, and a table without one uses the
+   * routed through Lance's MemWAL shard writer, and a table without one uses
-   * standard path.
+   * the standard path. Pass `false` to force the standard path even when a
+   * spec is set. Pass `true` to require a spec — `mergeInsert` rejects if none
+   * is installed.
    *
-   * @param enable - `true` forces MemWAL routing and errors if the table has no
+   * @param useLsmWrite - Whether to use the LSM write path.
-   * LSM write spec. `false` forces the standard write path even when a spec is set.
    */
-  useLsm(enable: boolean): MergeInsertBuilder {
+  useLsmWrite(useLsmWrite: boolean): MergeInsertBuilder {
-    return new MergeInsertBuilder(this.#native.useLsm(enable), this.#schema);
+    return new MergeInsertBuilder(
+      this.#native.useLsmWrite(useLsmWrite),
+      this.#schema,
+    );
   }
   /**
    * Controls how an LSM merge checks that its input targets a single shard.

nodejs/lancedb/query.ts

@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ export interface QueryExecutionOptions {
   timeoutMs?: number;
 }
 
-export type AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics = "aggregate" | "per_worker" | "full";
-
 export interface ColumnOrdering {
   columnName: string;
   ascending?: boolean;
@@ -313,20 +311,13 @@ export class QueryBase<
    *        KNNVectorDistance: metric=l2, metrics=[output_rows=1, elapsed_compute=114.333µs, output_batches=1]
    *         LanceScan: uri=/path/to/data, projection=[vector], row_id=true, row_addr=false, ordered=false, metrics=[output_rows=1, elapsed_compute=103.626µs, bytes_read=549, iops=2, requests=2]
    *
-   * @param distributedMetrics - How distributed worker metrics are displayed for remote query plans.
-   * Defaults to `"aggregate"`.
    * @returns A query execution plan with runtime metrics for each step.
    */
-  async analyzePlan(
+  async analyzePlan(): Promise<string> {
-    distributedMetrics?: AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics,
-  ): Promise<string> {
-    const distributedMetricsMode = distributedMetrics ?? "aggregate";
     if (this.inner instanceof Promise) {
-      return this.inner.then((inner) =>
+      return this.inner.then((inner) => inner.analyzePlan());
-        inner.analyzePlan(distributedMetricsMode),
-      );
     } else {
-      return this.inner.analyzePlan(distributedMetricsMode);
+      return this.inner.analyzePlan();
     }
   }
 
@@ -460,30 +451,6 @@ export class StandardQueryBase<
     this.doCall((inner: NativeQueryType) => inner.fastSearch());
     return this;
   }
-
-  /**
-   * Control MemWAL read routing for this query.
-   *
-   * By default (unset), when the table carries a MemWAL write spec (see
-   * {@link Table#setLsmWriteSpec}), reads are routed through the LSM scanner so
-   * they also return data written via the `mergeInsert` LSM path that has not yet
-   * been compacted into the base table (the active/frozen in-memory memtables and
-   * the flushed generations), deduplicated by primary key; a table without a spec
-   * reads the base table.
-   *
-   * @param enable - `true` forces the LSM scanner and errors if the table has no
-   * MemWAL write spec. `false` bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only,
-   * even when a spec is present.
-   *
-   * Note: the LSM scanner does not support every query shape (e.g. reranking,
-   * hybrid search, `orderBy`). On a MemWAL table those shapes error unless
-   * `useLsm(false)` is set, because a base-only read would silently exclude
-   * un-compacted MemWAL data.
-   */
-  useLsm(enable: boolean): this {
-    this.doCall((inner: NativeQueryType) => inner.useLsm(enable));
-    return this;
-  }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -772,20 +739,6 @@ export class TakeQuery extends QueryBase<NativeTakeQuery> {
   constructor(inner: NativeTakeQuery) {
     super(inner);
   }
-
-  /**
-   * Control MemWAL read routing for this take query.
-   *
-   * `false` bypasses the MemWAL and reads the base table only — the escape hatch,
-   * since take-by-row-id/offset is not supported on the LSM scanner and, on a
-   * MemWAL table, auto-routes to it and errors otherwise.
-   *
-   * @param enable - `false` reads the base table only.
-   */
-  useLsm(enable: boolean): this {
-    this.doCall((inner: NativeTakeQuery) => inner.useLsm(enable));
-    return this;
-  }
 }
 
 /** A builder for LanceDB queries.

nodejs/lancedb/sanitize.ts

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ export function sanitizeMetadata(
     throw Error("Expected metadata, if present, to be a Map<string, string>");
   }
   for (const item of metadataLike) {
-    if (typeof item[0] !== "string" || typeof item[1] !== "string") {
+    if (!(typeof item[0] === "string" || !(typeof item[1] === "string"))) {
       throw Error(
         "Expected metadata, if present, to be a Map<string, string> but it had non-string keys or values",
       );
@@ -288,11 +288,12 @@ export function sanitizeMap(typeLike: object) {
   if (!("keysSorted" in typeLike) || typeof typeLike.keysSorted !== "boolean") {
     throw Error("Expected a Map type to have a `keysSorted` property");
   }
-  if (typeLike.children.length !== 1) {
-    throw Error("Expected a Map type to have exactly one child");
-  }
 
-  return new Map_(sanitizeField(typeLike.children[0]), typeLike.keysSorted);
+  return new Map_(
+    // biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: skip
+    typeLike.children.map((field) => sanitizeField(field)) as any,
+    typeLike.keysSorted,
+  );
 }
 
 export function sanitizeDuration(typeLike: object) {

nodejs/lancedb/table.ts

@@ -1329,76 +1329,6 @@ export interface FieldMetadataUpdate {
   replace?: boolean;
 }
 
-/** Summary of a column in a branch diff. */
-export interface BranchColumnSummary {
-  name: string;
-  dataType: string;
-  nullable: boolean;
-}
-
-/** A column whose definition differs between main and the branch. */
-export interface BranchColumnChange {
-  name: string;
-  main: BranchColumnSummary;
-  branch: BranchColumnSummary;
-}
-
-/** Summary of an index in a branch diff. */
-export interface BranchIndexSummary {
-  indexName: string;
-  columns: string[];
-  indexType?: string;
-  status: string;
-}
-
-/** Row-level comparison between main and the branch. */
-export interface BranchRowCountSummary {
-  unchanged: number;
-  newOnBase: number;
-  newOnBranch: number;
-  staleRecompute: number;
-  inputsChanged: number;
-  deltaAvailable: boolean;
-}
-
-/** A reason why a branch cannot currently be merged. */
-export interface MergeBlocker {
-  code: string;
-  message: string;
-}
-
-/** Read-only comparison of a branch against main. */
-export interface BranchDiff {
-  fromBranch: string;
-  parentVersion: number;
-  mainVersion: number;
-  branchVersion: number;
-  baseMoved: boolean;
-  rowCountMain: number;
-  rowCountBranch: number;
-  rowSummary: BranchRowCountSummary;
-  addedColumns: BranchColumnSummary[];
-  removedColumns: BranchColumnSummary[];
-  changedColumns: BranchColumnChange[];
-  addedIndexes: BranchIndexSummary[];
-  removedIndexes: BranchIndexSummary[];
-  mergeable: boolean;
-  mergeBlockers: MergeBlocker[];
-}
-
-/** Changes that would be, or were, promoted by a branch merge. */
-export interface MergePreview {
-  promotedColumns: string[];
-}
-
-/** Result of previewing or attempting a branch merge. */
-export interface MergeBranchResult {
-  status: "ready" | "rejected" | "notImplemented" | "merged" | "unknown";
-  diff: BranchDiff;
-  preview: MergePreview;
-  mainVersionAfter?: number;
-}
-
 /**
  * Branch manager for a {@link Table}.
  *
@@ -1451,28 +1381,4 @@ export class Branches {
   async delete(name: string): Promise<void> {
     return await this.#inner.delete(name);
   }
-
-  /** Compare a branch against main without modifying either branch. */
-  async diff(fromBranch: string): Promise<BranchDiff> {
-    return (await this.#inner.diff(fromBranch)) as unknown as BranchDiff;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Merge a branch into main.
-   *
-   * Set `dryRun` to `true` to preview the merge. A rejected merge resolves
-   * with `status: "rejected"` instead of throwing.
-   *
-   * @param fromBranch Branch to merge from.
-   * @param dryRun When true, only preview the merge. Defaults to false.
-   */
-  async merge(
-    fromBranch: string,
-    dryRun: boolean = false,
-  ): Promise<MergeBranchResult> {
-    return (await this.#inner.merge(
-      fromBranch,
-      dryRun,
-    )) as unknown as MergeBranchResult;
-  }
 }

nodejs/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-darwin-arm64",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["darwin"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.darwin-arm64.node",

nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-gnu/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-arm64-gnu",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-arm64-gnu.node",

nodejs/npm/linux-arm64-musl/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-arm64-musl",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["arm64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-arm64-musl.node",

nodejs/npm/linux-x64-gnu/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-x64-gnu",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-x64-gnu.node",

nodejs/npm/linux-x64-musl/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-linux-x64-musl",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["linux"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.linux-x64-musl.node",

nodejs/npm/win32-arm64-msvc/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@lancedb/lancedb-win32-arm64-msvc",
-  "version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+  "version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
   "os": [
     "win32"
   ],

nodejs/npm/win32-x64-msvc/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@lancedb/lancedb-win32-x64-msvc",
-	"version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+	"version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
 	"os": ["win32"],
 	"cpu": ["x64"],
 	"main": "lancedb.win32-x64-msvc.node",

nodejs/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@lancedb/lancedb",
-  "version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+  "version": "0.32.0-beta.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@lancedb/lancedb",
-      "version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+      "version": "0.32.0-beta.1",
       "cpu": [
         "x64",
         "arm64"

nodejs/package.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "ann"
   ],
   "private": false,
-  "version": "0.37.1-beta.0",
+  "version": "0.32.0-beta.2",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "exports": {
     ".": "./dist/index.js",

nodejs/src/index.rs

@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ pub fn tokenize(
     lower_case: Option<bool>,
     stem: Option<bool>,
     remove_stop_words: Option<bool>,
-    custom_stop_words: Option<Vec<String>>,
     ascii_folding: Option<bool>,
     ngram_min_length: Option<u32>,
     ngram_max_length: Option<u32>,
@@ -73,7 +72,6 @@ pub fn tokenize(
     if let Some(remove_stop_words) = remove_stop_words {
         opts = opts.remove_stop_words(remove_stop_words);
     }
-    opts = opts.custom_stop_words(custom_stop_words);
     if let Some(ascii_folding) = ascii_folding {
         opts = opts.ascii_folding(ascii_folding);
     }
@@ -224,13 +222,11 @@ impl Index {
         lower_case: Option<bool>,
         stem: Option<bool>,
         remove_stop_words: Option<bool>,
-        custom_stop_words: Option<Vec<String>>,
         ascii_folding: Option<bool>,
         ngram_min_length: Option<u32>,
         ngram_max_length: Option<u32>,
         prefix_only: Option<bool>,
-        block_size: Option<u32>,
+    ) -> Self {
-    ) -> napi::Result<Self> {
         let mut opts = FtsIndexBuilder::default();
         if let Some(with_position) = with_position {
             opts = opts.with_position(with_position);
@@ -253,7 +249,6 @@ impl Index {
         if let Some(remove_stop_words) = remove_stop_words {
             opts = opts.remove_stop_words(remove_stop_words);
         }
-        opts = opts.custom_stop_words(custom_stop_words);
         if let Some(ascii_folding) = ascii_folding {
             opts = opts.ascii_folding(ascii_folding);
         }
@@ -266,15 +261,10 @@ impl Index {
         if let Some(prefix_only) = prefix_only {
             opts = opts.ngram_prefix_only(prefix_only);
         }
-        if let Some(block_size) = block_size {
-            opts = opts
-                .block_size(block_size as usize)
-                .map_err(|err| napi::Error::from_reason(err.to_string()))?;
-        }
 
-        Ok(Self {
+        Self {
             inner: Mutex::new(Some(LanceDbIndex::FTS(opts))),
-        })
+        }
     }
 
     #[napi(factory)]

nodejs/src/merge.rs

@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ impl NativeMergeInsertBuilder {
     }
 
     #[napi]
-    pub fn use_lsm(&self, enable: bool) -> Self {
+    pub fn use_lsm_write(&self, use_lsm_write: bool) -> Self {
         let mut this = self.clone();
-        this.inner.use_lsm(enable);
+        this.inner.use_lsm_write(use_lsm_write);
         this
     }
 

nodejs/src/query.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use lancedb::index::scalar::{
     BooleanQuery, BoostQuery, FtsQuery, FullTextSearchQuery, MatchQuery, MultiMatchQuery, Occur,
     Operator, PhraseQuery,
 };
-use lancedb::query::AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics;
 use lancedb::query::ExecutableQuery;
 use lancedb::query::Query as LanceDbQuery;
 use lancedb::query::QueryBase;
@@ -48,28 +47,6 @@ impl From<ColumnOrdering> for LanceDbColumnOrdering {
     }
 }
 
-fn analyze_plan_options(
-    distributed_metrics: Option<String>,
-) -> napi::Result<QueryExecutionOptions> {
-    let analyze_plan_distributed_metrics =
-        match distributed_metrics.as_deref().unwrap_or("aggregate") {
-            "aggregate" => AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics::Aggregate,
-            "per_worker" => AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics::PerWorker,
-            "full" => AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics::Full,
-            mode => {
-                return Err(napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
-                    "Invalid distributedMetrics value '{}'. Expected one of: \
-                 'aggregate', 'per_worker', 'full'",
-                    mode
-                )));
-            }
-        };
-
-    let mut options = QueryExecutionOptions::default();
-    options.analyze_plan_distributed_metrics = analyze_plan_distributed_metrics;
-    Ok(options)
-}
-
 fn bytes_to_arrow_array(data: Uint8Array, dtype: String) -> napi::Result<Arc<dyn Array>> {
     let buf = arrow_buffer::Buffer::from(data.to_vec());
     let num_bytes = buf.len();
@@ -168,11 +145,6 @@ impl Query {
         self.inner = self.inner.clone().with_row_id();
     }
 
-    #[napi]
-    pub fn use_lsm(&mut self, enable: bool) {
-        self.inner = self.inner.clone().use_lsm(enable);
-    }
-
     #[napi]
     pub fn order_by(&mut self, ordering: Option<Vec<ColumnOrdering>>) -> napi::Result<()> {
         let ordering = ordering.map(|ordering| {
@@ -228,17 +200,13 @@ impl Query {
     }
 
     #[napi(catch_unwind)]
-    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self, distributed_metrics: Option<String>) -> napi::Result<String> {
+    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self) -> napi::Result<String> {
-        let options = analyze_plan_options(distributed_metrics)?;
+        self.inner.analyze_plan().await.map_err(|e| {
-        self.inner
+            napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
-            .analyze_plan_with_options(options)
+                "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-            .await
+                convert_error(&e)
-            .map_err(|e| {
+            ))
-                napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
+        })
-                    "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-                    convert_error(&e)
-                ))
-            })
     }
 }
 
@@ -379,11 +347,6 @@ impl VectorQuery {
         self.inner = self.inner.clone().with_row_id();
     }
 
-    #[napi]
-    pub fn use_lsm(&mut self, enable: bool) {
-        self.inner = self.inner.clone().use_lsm(enable);
-    }
-
     #[napi]
     pub fn rerank(
         &mut self,
@@ -449,17 +412,13 @@ impl VectorQuery {
     }
 
     #[napi(catch_unwind)]
-    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self, distributed_metrics: Option<String>) -> napi::Result<String> {
+    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self) -> napi::Result<String> {
-        let options = analyze_plan_options(distributed_metrics)?;
+        self.inner.analyze_plan().await.map_err(|e| {
-        self.inner
+            napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
-            .analyze_plan_with_options(options)
+                "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-            .await
+                convert_error(&e)
-            .map_err(|e| {
+            ))
-                napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
+        })
-                    "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-                    convert_error(&e)
-                ))
-            })
     }
 }
 
@@ -489,11 +448,6 @@ impl TakeQuery {
         self.inner = self.inner.clone().with_row_id();
     }
 
-    #[napi]
-    pub fn use_lsm(&mut self, enable: bool) {
-        self.inner = self.inner.clone().use_lsm(enable);
-    }
-
     #[napi(catch_unwind)]
     pub async fn output_schema(&self) -> napi::Result<Buffer> {
         let schema = self.inner.output_schema().await.default_error()?;
@@ -537,17 +491,13 @@ impl TakeQuery {
     }
 
     #[napi(catch_unwind)]
-    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self, distributed_metrics: Option<String>) -> napi::Result<String> {
+    pub async fn analyze_plan(&self) -> napi::Result<String> {
-        let options = analyze_plan_options(distributed_metrics)?;
+        self.inner.analyze_plan().await.map_err(|e| {
-        self.inner
+            napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
-            .analyze_plan_with_options(options)
+                "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-            .await
+                convert_error(&e)
-            .map_err(|e| {
+            ))
-                napi::Error::from_reason(format!(
+        })
-                    "Failed to execute analyze plan: {}",
-                    convert_error(&e)
-                ))
-            })
     }
 }
 

nodejs/src/remote.rs

@@ -232,10 +232,6 @@ impl From<ClientConfig> for lancedb::remote::ClientConfig {
             tls_config: config.tls_config.map(Into::into),
             header_provider: None, // the header provider is set separately later
             user_id: config.user_id,
-            // Resolved from LANCE_CLIENT_MAX_BYTES_PER_REQUEST or the default.
-            max_bytes_per_request: None,
-            // Resolved from LANCE_CLIENT_MAX_REQUEST_DURATION or the read timeout.
-            max_request_duration: None,
         }
     }
 }

nodejs/src/table.rs

@@ -1355,28 +1355,4 @@ impl Branches {
     pub async fn delete(&self, name: String) -> napi::Result<()> {
         self.inner.delete_branch(&name).await.default_error()
     }
-
-    #[napi(ts_return_type = "Promise<Record<string, unknown>>")]
-    pub async fn diff(&self, from_branch: String) -> napi::Result<serde_json::Value> {
-        let diff = self.inner.diff_branch(&from_branch).await.default_error()?;
-        serde_json::to_value(diff).map_err(|err| {
-            napi::Error::from_reason(format!("failed to serialize branch diff: {err}"))
-        })
-    }
-
-    #[napi(ts_return_type = "Promise<Record<string, unknown>>")]
-    pub async fn merge(
-        &self,
-        from_branch: String,
-        dry_run: Option<bool>,
-    ) -> napi::Result<serde_json::Value> {
-        let result = self
-            .inner
-            .merge_branch(&from_branch, dry_run.unwrap_or(false))
-            .await
-            .default_error()?;
-        serde_json::to_value(result).map_err(|err| {
-            napi::Error::from_reason(format!("failed to serialize branch merge result: {err}"))
-        })
-    }
 }

plugins/lancedb/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "lancedb",
-  "description": "Write, review, debug, and document LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript that work across local LanceDB OSS tables and remote LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud tables, with idiomatic query/search patterns and performance defaults for ingestion, indexing, filtering, and diagnostics.",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "author": {
-    "name": "LanceDB"
-  },
-  "homepage": "https://www.lancedb.com",
-  "keywords": [
-    "lancedb",
-    "vector-search",
-    "full-text-search",
-    "hybrid-search",
-    "python",
-    "typescript",
-    "pipelines",
-    "ingestion",
-    "indexing",
-    "performance"
-  ]
-}

plugins/lancedb/.codex-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "lancedb",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "Codex plugin for building LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript.",
-  "author": {
-    "name": "LanceDB"
-  },
-  "keywords": [
-    "lancedb",
-    "vector-search",
-    "full-text-search",
-    "hybrid-search",
-    "python",
-    "typescript",
-    "pipelines"
-  ],
-  "skills": "./skills/",
-  "interface": {
-    "displayName": "LanceDB",
-    "shortDescription": "Build LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript.",
-    "longDescription": "Write, review, debug, and document LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript that work across local LanceDB OSS tables and remote LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud tables, with idiomatic query/search patterns and performance defaults for ingestion, indexing, filtering, and diagnostics.",
-    "developerName": "LanceDB",
-    "websiteURL": "https://www.lancedb.com",
-    "category": "Developer Tools",
-    "capabilities": [
-      "Developer Tools"
-    ],
-    "defaultPrompt": "Create a LanceDB table, embed sample text, and run a vector search.",
-    "composerIcon": "./assets/logo.png",
-    "logo": "./assets/logo.png",
-    "logoDark": "./assets/logo-dark.png"
-  }
-}

plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb/agents/openai.yaml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-interface:
-  display_name: "LanceDB"
-  short_description: "Build LanceDB pipelines in Python and TypeScript"
-  default_prompt: "Use $lancedb to create a table, embed sample text, and run a vector search."
-  icon_small: "./assets/icon.png"
-  icon_large: "./assets/icon.png"

plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb/references/branch_ops.md

@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-# Branch Operations
-
-Manage branches on a LanceDB table: list what exists, create new ones, delete stale ones, and direct read/write operations at a specific branch without touching main. Use for branch lifecycle tasks, experimental/isolated table versions, targeting an operation at a non-main branch, or confirming a mutation did not affect main.
-
-Works on local/OSS and remote Enterprise/Cloud tables, except merging a branch into main, which is Enterprise-only.
-
-## The branch model (important)
-
-Branches are isolated, writable lines of history forked from another branch (or a specific version). Writes on a branch never affect `main`.
-
-There is **no global "switch branch" state** — you never repoint the whole table at a branch. Instead, **operations are scoped by which table handle you use**:
-
-- The handle you got from `open_table(name)` / `openTable(name)` targets `main`.
-- `branches.create(...)` and `branches.checkout(...)` return a **new table handle scoped to that branch**. Every read/write on that handle (add, update, `update_field_metadata`, `create_index`, search, …) lands on the branch.
-- The original main handle is unaffected — keep it around to verify isolation.
-
-`branches.list()` returns only non-main branches. Main always exists and is not listed.
-
-## Python
-
-`table.branches` is a property returning the branch manager; `table.current_branch()` tells you what a handle is scoped to (`None` = main).
-
-```python
-table = db.open_table("products")            # scoped to main
-
-# list — dict of name -> metadata (parent_branch, parent_version, ...); {} = only main
-table.branches.list()
-
-# create: forks from main by default and returns a handle scoped to the new branch
-exp = table.branches.create("experiment-reindex")
-exp = table.branches.create("exp2", from_ref="main", from_version=None)  # optional fork point
-
-# checkout an existing branch -> branch-scoped handle
-wip = table.branches.checkout("wip-branch")
-# with version= it pins to that version (read-only detached view); omit to track latest, writable
-
-# operate on the branch simply by using its handle
-wip.update_field_metadata(
-    {"path": "category", "metadata": {"lancedb:description": "Product category label."}}
-)
-wip.create_scalar_index("category")
-
-# delete: removes only the branch pointer; main and row data remain intact
-table.branches.delete("stale-2024")
-
-# alternatively, open a branch handle directly from the connection
-wip = db.open_table("products", branch="wip-branch")
-
-exp.current_branch()    # "experiment-reindex"
-table.current_branch()  # None (main)
-```
-
-Async: same shape — `table.branches` returns `AsyncBranches`; `await table.branches.create(...)` etc.
-
-## TypeScript
-
-`table.branches()` is an **async method** returning the `Branches` manager; `table.currentBranch()` returns the scoped branch or `null` for main.
-
-```typescript
-const table = await db.openTable("products"); // scoped to main
-const branches = await table.branches();
-
-// list — Record<string, BranchContents>; {} = only main
-await branches.list();
-
-// create: forks from main by default, returns a Table scoped to the new branch
-const exp = await branches.create("experiment-reindex");
-const exp2 = await branches.create("exp2", "main" /* fromRef */, undefined /* fromVersion */);
-
-// checkout an existing branch -> branch-scoped Table
-const wip = await branches.checkout("wip-branch");
-// with a version arg it pins (read-only detached view); omit to track latest, writable
-
-// operate on the branch simply by using its handle
-await wip.updateFieldMetadata([
-  { path: "category", metadata: { "lancedb:description": "Product category label." } },
-]);
-await wip.createIndex("category");
-
-// delete: removes only the branch pointer; main and row data remain intact
-await branches.delete("stale-2024");
-
-// alternatively, open a branch handle directly from the connection
-const wip2 = await db.openTable("products", { branch: "wip-branch" });
-
-exp.currentBranch();   // "experiment-reindex"
-table.currentBranch(); // null (main)
-```
-
-## Verifying isolation
-
-After writing to a branch, confirm the change did NOT land on main by reading through both handles:
-
-```python
-wip = table.branches.checkout("wip-branch")
-wip.update_field_metadata({"path": "category", "metadata": {"lancedb:description": "..."}})
-
-assert b"lancedb:description" in (wip.schema.field("category").metadata or {})
-assert b"lancedb:description" not in (table.schema.field("category").metadata or {})  # main untouched
-```
-
-Two handles on the same branch see each other's writes (e.g. `table.branches.create("exp")` and `db.open_table(name, branch="exp")`); main stays isolated.
-
-## Merging a branch into main (Enterprise only)
-
-Merge is available through the SDKs (`table.branches.merge(...)`) on **Enterprise tables only** — it is not supported on Cloud or local/OSS tables, which raise `NotSupported`.
-
-`merge` takes the branch to merge **from** and a `dry_run` flag. Both the SDK method and the underlying REST endpoint **actually merge by default** (`dry_run=False`); pass `dry_run=True` to only preview. A rejected merge is **not an exception** — it returns a result with `status="rejected"` rather than raising, so inspect the return value. Use `branches.diff(from_branch)` to inspect a branch's pending diff without attempting a merge.
-
-```python
-exp = "experiment-reindex"
-
-# preview only — returns status="ready" if it would merge cleanly
-preview = table.branches.merge(exp, dry_run=True)
-
-# actually merge (default)
-result = table.branches.merge(exp)
-if result["status"] == "merged":
-    print("landed at", result["mainVersionAfter"])
-elif result["status"] == "rejected":
-    print(result["diff"]["mergeBlockers"])   # why it was refused
-
-# inspect a branch's pending diff without merging
-diff = table.branches.diff(exp)
-```
-
-Async: `await table.branches.merge(exp)`, `await table.branches.diff(exp)`.
-
-```typescript
-const branches = await table.branches();
-const exp = "experiment-reindex";
-
-// preview only (second arg is dryRun)
-const preview = await branches.merge(exp, true);
-
-// actually merge (default)
-const result = await branches.merge(exp);
-if (result.status === "merged") {
-  console.log("landed at", result.mainVersionAfter);
-} else if (result.status === "rejected") {
-  console.log(result.diff.mergeBlockers);
-}
-
-const diff = await branches.diff(exp);
-```
-
-The result is the wire JSON, containing `status` (`ready` on a passing dry run, `merged` on success, `rejected` when refused — also `notImplemented`/`unknown`), the branch `diff` (including `mergeBlockers` explaining any rejection), a `preview` of the columns that would be promoted, and — after a real merge — `mainVersionAfter`.
-
-### Merge preconditions
-
-Merge only **promotes newly added columns** onto main; it does not replay arbitrary commits. Practically, a branch is mergeable only if it has **exactly one commit since it was created, and that commit added a column**. The merge is rejected (`status: "rejected"`, with `mergeBlockers` set) if:
-
-- the branch was forked from another branch rather than directly from main
-- main has advanced since the branch was forked
-- the branch's rows changed since the fork (row counts must match main exactly)
-- the branch removed columns or changed a column's type/nullability
-- the branch added no columns (index-only changes are not merged)
-
-### Adding a column in a single commit
-
-Because the branch must contain just one column-adding commit, add the column with its values in one operation rather than add-then-backfill:
-
-1. **SQL transformation** — `add_columns` with a SQL expression computed from existing columns, so the column lands populated in one commit.
-2. **Precompute the values** — compute the column's values externally, then add the fully-populated column in a single operation (e.g. via `merge_insert`/`add_columns` with the data ready).
-3. **Lance-format-level data evolution (pylance)** — use Lance's data evolution with backfill, documented at <https://lance.org/guide/data_evolution/#with-data-backfill>.
-
-## Quick reference
-
-| Goal | Python | TypeScript |
-|------|--------|------------|
-| List branches (non-main) | `table.branches.list()` | `await (await table.branches()).list()` |
-| Create branch (off main) | `table.branches.create(name)` → branch handle | `await branches.create(name)` → branch `Table` |
-| Create from a fork point | `table.branches.create(name, from_ref=..., from_version=...)` | `await branches.create(name, fromRef, fromVersion)` |
-| Get a branch handle | `table.branches.checkout(name)` or `db.open_table(t, branch=name)` | `await branches.checkout(name)` or `await db.openTable(t, { branch: name })` |
-| Pin to a branch version (read-only) | `table.branches.checkout(name, version=v)` | `await branches.checkout(name, v)` |
-| Delete branch | `table.branches.delete(name)` | `await branches.delete(name)` |
-| Which branch is this handle on? | `table.current_branch()` (`None` = main) | `table.currentBranch()` (`null` = main) |
-| Target main | use the original (non-branch) handle | use the original (non-branch) handle |
-| Merge branch into main (Enterprise only) | `table.branches.merge(from_branch, dry_run=False)` | `await branches.merge(fromBranch, dryRun)` |
-| Preview a branch's pending diff (Enterprise only) | `table.branches.diff(from_branch)` | `await branches.diff(fromBranch)` |
-
-Branch names must be non-empty; empty names raise a validation error.

plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb/references/column_metadata.md

@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-# Column Metadata Authoring
-
-Write column-level descriptions, tags, and logical groupings onto a LanceDB table's schema. Use this when the user wants to document, annotate, tag, or classify what their table columns ARE (embeddings vs labels vs eval metrics, model provenance, version families, etc.).
-
-Works on local/OSS and remote Enterprise/Cloud tables alike — read the schema through the table handle, write through `update_field_metadata` (Python) / `updateFieldMetadata` (TypeScript).
-
-## Metadata key conventions
-
-All metadata uses namespaced keys:
-
-| Key | Purpose | Example value |
-|-----|---------|---------------|
-| `lancedb:description` | Human-readable explanation of what the column contains | `"CLIP ViT-L/14 image embedding, L2-normalized (768-dim)"` |
-| `lancedb:tag:<name>` | Flexible key-value tag; the suffix names the tag category | `lancedb:tag:field_type: "embedding"`, `lancedb:tag:model: "clip"`, `lancedb:tag:project_id: "foo"` |
-| `lancedb:logical-column` | Logical group/family this column belongs to | `"clip_features"` |
-
-Tags are open-ended — use whatever key suffix and value make sense given the user's intent. The tag suffix should describe *what is being classified* (e.g., `field_type`, `model`, `project_id`) and the value describes *how*. Multiple tags on the same column are fine — each is a separate key. All values are strings.
-
-## Step 1: Read the schema and existing metadata
-
-Read existing metadata before writing, to avoid redundant updates.
-
-Python — `table.schema` (sync property; async: `await table.schema()`) returns a `pyarrow.Schema`. **Arrow field metadata is bytes-keyed in Python**:
-
-```python
-schema = table.schema
-for field in schema:
-    meta = field.metadata or {}  # dict[bytes, bytes], e.g. {b"lancedb:description": b"..."}
-    print(field.name, field.type, field.nullable, meta)
-```
-
-TypeScript — `await table.schema()` returns an Arrow `Schema`; field metadata is a `Map<string, string>`:
-
-```typescript
-const schema = await table.schema();
-for (const field of schema.fields) {
-  console.log(field.name, field.type, field.nullable, field.metadata); // Map
-  // field.metadata.get("lancedb:description")
-}
-```
-
-For struct/nested fields, recurse into the field's children and address them as dot-paths (e.g., `parent.child`).
-
-If the user hasn't specified which columns to update, work with all columns.
-
-## Step 2: Generate metadata
-
-Decide what to generate based on the user's request.
-
-### Descriptions (`lancedb:description`)
-
-Base descriptions on:
-- The column name and Arrow type (e.g., `FixedSizeList` of floats → likely an embedding)
-- User-supplied context (upstream pipeline, sample values, domain knowledge)
-- Name patterns: `_embedding`/`_vec`/`_embed` → vector; `_label`/`_class` → label; `_score`/`_eval`/`_metric` → evaluation metric
-
-Be specific and concise. Good: `"Sentence-BERT embedding of the query text (768-dim)."` Not: `"An embedding column."`
-
-### Tags (`lancedb:tag:<name>`)
-
-Choose tag key names that match what the user asked to annotate. Common patterns:
-
-- Semantic field type → `lancedb:tag:field_type: "embedding"` / `"text"` / `"image"` / `"label"` / `"eval"` / `"id"` / `"metadata"`
-- Model or source → `lancedb:tag:model: "clip"` / `"bert"` / `"vit"`
-- Project affiliation → `lancedb:tag:project_id: "<name>"`
-- Version → `lancedb:tag:version: "v3"` (and `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"` for the newest)
-
-Use Arrow type as a hint: `FixedSizeList` + float → embedding; `Utf8`/`LargeUtf8` → text; `Binary` → image or blob.
-
-### Logical groupings (`lancedb:logical-column`)
-
-Look for naming patterns across columns:
-- `clip_v1`, `clip_v2`, `clip_v3` → logical column `"clip"`, latest is `v3`
-- `text_embed_20240101`, `text_embed_20240601` → logical column `"text_embed"`, latest is the most recent date suffix
-
-Write `lancedb:logical-column` on all members of a group. Mark the newest with `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"` (in addition to its version tag).
-
-## Step 3: Write the metadata
-
-Each update names a field by dot-path and carries a metadata map. Semantics (identical in both SDKs):
-
-- **Merge by default** (`replace` omitted/false) — preserves existing metadata the user didn't ask to change
-- `replace: true` swaps the field's entire metadata map — only if the user explicitly asks to overwrite
-- A value of `None`/`null` deletes that specific key
-- Batch all field updates into a single call when possible
-- Returns the new table version
-
-Python (sync and async take one dict per field, as varargs):
-
-```python
-res = table.update_field_metadata(
-    {
-        "path": "clip_v3",
-        "metadata": {
-            "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-L/14 image embedding, L2-normalized (1024-dim).",
-            "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
-            "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
-            "lancedb:tag:version": "v3",
-            "lancedb:tag:latest": "true",
-            "lancedb:logical-column": "clip",
-        },
-    },
-    {
-        "path": "clip_v2",
-        "metadata": {
-            "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-B/32 image embedding (768-dim), superseded by v3.",
-            "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
-            "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
-            "lancedb:tag:version": "v2",
-            "lancedb:logical-column": "clip",
-        },
-    },
-)
-print(res.version)  # new table version
-
-# merge semantics: add a key, delete one via None, keep the rest
-table.update_field_metadata(
-    {"path": "clip_v2", "metadata": {"lancedb:tag:archived": "true", "lancedb:tag:latest": None}}
-)
-```
-
-(`replace_field_metadata` is deprecated — use `update_field_metadata`.)
-
-TypeScript (takes an array of `FieldMetadataUpdate`):
-
-```typescript
-const res = await table.updateFieldMetadata([
-  {
-    path: "clip_v3",
-    metadata: {
-      "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-L/14 image embedding, L2-normalized (1024-dim).",
-      "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
-      "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
-      "lancedb:tag:version": "v3",
-      "lancedb:tag:latest": "true",
-      "lancedb:logical-column": "clip",
-    },
-  },
-  {
-    path: "clip_v2",
-    metadata: {
-      "lancedb:description": "CLIP ViT-B/32 image embedding (768-dim), superseded by v3.",
-      "lancedb:tag:field_type": "embedding",
-      "lancedb:tag:model": "clip",
-      "lancedb:tag:version": "v2",
-      "lancedb:logical-column": "clip",
-    },
-  },
-]);
-console.log(res.version); // new table version
-
-// merge semantics: add a key, delete one via null, keep the rest
-await table.updateFieldMetadata([
-  { path: "clip_v2", metadata: { "lancedb:tag:archived": "true", "lancedb:tag:latest": null } },
-]);
-```
-
-## Step 4: Confirm
-
-Report back:
-- Which columns were updated and what was written
-- The new table version number (from the result)
-- Any columns skipped (e.g., already had up-to-date metadata)
-
-## Quick examples
-
-**"Write descriptions for all columns in the `product_embeddings` table"**
-1. Read `table.schema` → all fields + existing metadata
-2. Generate a `lancedb:description` for each column based on name + type
-3. One `update_field_metadata` call with all descriptions
-4. Report
-
-**"Tag the columns in `model_outputs` with their field type and model"**
-1. Read the schema
-2. For each field, classify by name + Arrow type → set `lancedb:tag:field_type` and `lancedb:tag:model` where applicable
-3. Write in one batched call
-4. Report
-
-**"Group the feature columns in `training_features` into logical families and mark the latest version"**
-1. Read the schema
-2. Find version patterns → assign `lancedb:logical-column` and `lancedb:tag:version`; mark newest with `lancedb:tag:latest: "true"`
-3. Write in one batched call
-4. Show the grouping

plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb/references/remote_connect.md

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# Connecting to a LanceDB remote server
-
-LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud deployments are served by a server implementing the
-lance-namespace OpenAPI spec
-(<https://github.com/lance-format/lance-namespace/blob/main/docs/src/spec.yaml>).
-Every remote (`db://...`) connection talks to such a server, and some operations
-exist only there. In particular, all operations around jobs (listing, inspecting,
-creating, or canceling jobs) run server-side — there is no local/OSS equivalent, so
-resolve a server connection before attempting any job work. The job REST methods
-themselves are documented in `references/remote_jobs.md`.
-
-Every request needs two things:
-
-1. **Base URL** — the server endpoint
-2. **Credentials** — an API key (`x-api-key` header over REST), and usually a database name (`x-lancedb-database` header)
-
-## Resolution steps
-
-1. If the user already gave a URL and API key (or said which environment they're working against), use that.
-2. Otherwise, look for credentials already available in the environment:
-   - Env vars like `LANCEDB_URI` / `LANCEDB_HOST` / `LANCEDB_API_KEY`
-   - A server endpoint already running or port-forwarded locally (the REST default port is 2333, i.e. `http://localhost:2333`)
-3. If you didn't find both pieces, ask the user directly: **"What's your LanceDB endpoint's URL, and what's your API key?"** Also ask which database to use if it isn't obvious. Don't guess or probe further — the user knows their deployment.
-
-## Validating the connection
-
-Make a cheap authenticated request and check the status before starting real work:
-
-```bash
-curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" "{base_url}/v1/table/?limit=1" \
-  -H "x-api-key: <key>" \
-  -H "x-lancedb-database: <database>"
-```
-
-- `200` — connection, key, and database header all good
-- `401` — API key missing or wrong
-- `400` mentioning a database header — this deployment expects `x-lancedb-database`
-
-## Non-REST equivalents
-
-The same credentials work through the SDKs and CLI:
-
-- Python SDK: `lancedb.connect("db://<database>", api_key="<key>", host_override="<base_url>")`
-- TypeScript SDK: `await lancedb.connect("db://<database>", { apiKey: "<key>", hostOverride: "<base_url>" })`
-- `lancedb` CLI: a `[profiles.<name>]` entry in `~/.lancedb/config.toml` with `http_server_url`, `api_key`, `database`

plugins/lancedb/skills/lancedb/references/remote_jobs.md

@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-# Job operations over the LanceDB remote server REST API
-
-Jobs are server-side background operations on LanceDB Enterprise/Cloud — index builds,
-column backfills, materialized view refreshes, and similar async work. Endpoints that
-trigger async work (e.g. the column backfill or materialized view refresh endpoints)
-return a `job_id`; these four methods are how you track and manage those jobs.
-
-Resolve the connection first — see `references/remote_connect.md`. All four methods
-are **POST** requests under `{base_url}/v1/jobs/` with JSON bodies, and take the usual
-`x-api-key` / `x-lancedb-database` headers. If every job call returns `501`, job APIs
-are disabled on that deployment (the server has no job registry configured) — report
-that rather than retrying.
-
-## 1. List jobs — `POST /v1/jobs/list`
-
-The body is optional; an empty body lists everything. All fields are filters:
-
-```json
-{
-  "limit": 100,
-  "table_name": "my_table",
-  "job_type": "...",
-  "job_subtype": "...",
-  "state": "...",
-  "page_token": "..."
-}
-```
-
-```bash
-curl -s -X POST "{base_url}/v1/jobs/list" \
-  -H "x-api-key: <key>" -H "x-lancedb-database: <database>" \
-  -H "content-type: application/json" \
-  -d '{"table_name": "my_table"}'
-```
-
-Response:
-
-```json
-{
-  "jobs": [
-    {
-      "job_id": "...",
-      "table": "my_table",
-      "job_type": "...",
-      "job_subtype": "...",
-      "state": "done",
-      "created_at_millis": 1720000000000
-    }
-  ],
-  "page_token": "..."
-}
-```
-
-A `page_token` in the response means there are more results — pass it back in the next
-request to continue. Note list rows use a lowercase `state` string, while describe uses
-an uppercase `job_state`.
-
-## 2. Describe a job — `POST /v1/jobs/describe`
-
-Body: `{"job_id": "<id>"}`. Returns full detail for one job:
-
-```json
-{
-  "job_id": "...",
-  "job_type": "...",
-  "job_subtype": "...",
-  "job_state": "IN_PROGRESS",
-  "creation_ms": 1720000000000,
-  "spec": {},
-  "status": {}
-}
-```
-
-`job_state` is one of `IN_PROGRESS`, `CANCELLED`, `FAILED`, `DONE`. `spec` and `status`
-are job-type-specific JSON objects (the job's input specification and its current
-progress/status). Returns `404` for an unknown job id.
-
-## 3. Cancel a job — `POST /v1/jobs/cancel`
-
-Body: `{"job_id": "<id>"}`; response echoes `{"job_id": "<id>"}`. Cancellation is a
-service-level operation requiring the same administrative authorization as the
-`/admin` routes — a database-scoped API key that can list and describe jobs may still
-get a permission error here. Other errors: `404` unknown job, `409` state conflict
-(e.g. already in a terminal state), `429` too much write contention (safe to retry).
-
-## 4. Query job event history — `POST /v1/jobs/query_events`
-
-Returns the event history (state transitions, progress updates) for one or more jobs.
-Body: `{"job_id": "<id>"}` for one job, or `{"job_ids": ["<id>", ...]}` for a batch.
-Optional fields: `limit` (max event rows), `limit_per_job` (per job in a batch query),
-and `filter` — a SQL-like expression over the columns `state`, `updated_by`,
-`owner_component`, and `claim_entity`. (`full_text_search` is reserved and currently
-rejected as not implemented.)
-
-The response is **not JSON** — it is an Arrow IPC stream
-(`content-type: application/vnd.apache.arrow.stream`). Decode it, e.g. in Python:
-
-```python
-import pyarrow.ipc
-import requests
-
-resp = requests.post(
-    f"{base_url}/v1/jobs/query_events",
-    headers={"x-api-key": key, "x-lancedb-database": database},
-    json={"job_id": job_id},
-)
-resp.raise_for_status()
-events = pyarrow.ipc.open_stream(resp.content).read_all()
-```
-
-## Feature engineering (Geneva) jobs
-
-Feature engineering jobs — UDF column backfills and materialized view refreshes run
-through Geneva — are tracked **separately** from the `/v1/jobs` registry above. Their
-records live in a `geneva_jobs` table inside the database itself (in the `__system`
-namespace), and you access them through a Python `geneva` connection rather than the
-REST endpoints above:
-
-```python
-import geneva
-from geneva.jobs import JobStateManager
-
-# Same credentials as lancedb.connect / the REST API
-conn = geneva.connect("db://<database>", api_key="<key>", host_override="<base_url>")
-jsm = JobStateManager(conn)
-
-# List jobs. NOTE: status defaults to "RUNNING"; pass status=None for all jobs.
-# Statuses: PENDING | RUNNING | DONE | FAILED | CANCELLED
-jobs = jsm.list_jobs(table_name="my_table", status=None)
-
-# Fetch one job by id (returns a list of JobRecord)
-records = jsm.get("<job_id>")
-```
-
-Each `JobRecord` has `table_name`, `column_name`, `job_id`, `job_type`, `status`,
-`launched_at`, `completed_at`, `config`, `launched_by`, `manifest_id`, `cluster_name`,
-`metrics` (progress counters), `events` (human-readable history), and `updated_at`.
-For filters `list_jobs` doesn't support (e.g. time ranges), query the underlying table
-directly: `jsm.get_table(True).search().where("launched_at >= TIMESTAMP '...'")` —
-pass `True` to check out the latest version, since other processes update job state.
-
-Stale-status caveat: nothing reaps dead Geneva jobs, so a job can sit in
-`RUNNING`/`PENDING` forever if its worker died. Treat a job as effectively `FAILED`
-when it has been running longer than ~36 hours, or its `updated_at` is more than ~2
-hours old (this matches the heuristic the Geneva console UI applies on read).
-
-## Workflow tips
-
-- To wait for async work (a backfill, an index build), poll `describe` until
-  `job_state` leaves `IN_PROGRESS`; on `FAILED`, pull `status` and `query_events` for
-  the failure detail.

python/.bumpversion.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+[tool.bumpversion]
+current_version = "0.35.0-beta.2"
+parse = """(?x)
+    (?P<major>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
+    (?P<minor>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
+    (?P<patch>0|[1-9]\\d*)
+    (?:-(?P<pre_l>[a-zA-Z-]+)\\.(?P<pre_n>0|[1-9]\\d*))?
+"""
+serialize = [
+    "{major}.{minor}.{patch}-{pre_l}.{pre_n}",
+    "{major}.{minor}.{patch}",
+]
+search = "{current_version}"
+replace = "{new_version}"
+regex = false
+ignore_missing_version = false
+ignore_missing_files = false
+tag = true
+sign_tags = false
+tag_name = "python-v{new_version}"
+tag_message = "Bump version: {current_version} → {new_version}"
+allow_dirty = true
+commit = true
+message = "Bump version: {current_version} → {new_version}"
+commit_args = ""
+# bump-my-version >=1.4.0 rejects pre_commit_hooks containing shell syntax unless opted in.
+allow_shell_hooks = true
+
+# Update Cargo.lock after version bump
+pre_commit_hooks = [
+  """
+    cd python && cargo update -p lancedb-python
+    if git diff --quiet ../Cargo.lock; then
+        echo "Cargo.lock unchanged"
+    else
+        git add ../Cargo.lock
+        echo "Updated and staged Cargo.lock"
+    fi
+    """,
+]
+
+[tool.bumpversion.parts.pre_l]
+values = ["beta", "final"]
+optional_value = "final"
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+filename = "Cargo.toml"
+search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
+replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""

python/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "lancedb-python"
-version = "0.37.1-beta.0"
+version = "0.35.0-beta.2"
 publish = false
 edition.workspace = true
 description = "Python bindings for LanceDB"

python/README.md

@@ -8,27 +8,6 @@ A Python library for [LanceDB](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb).
 pip install lancedb
 ```
 
-### Pre-Haswell x86_64 hosts: `lancedb-compat`
-
-The default `lancedb` wheel targets `x86-64-haswell` (AVX2 + FMA + F16C) for full performance on modern hardware. Pre-Haswell hosts — Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Westmere; AMD Bulldozer / Piledriver / Steamroller — don't have AVX2 and crash with `Illegal instruction` at `import lancedb`.
-
-For those hosts, install the `lancedb-compat` package instead:
-
-```bash
-pip install lancedb-compat
-```
-
-Same Python API (`import lancedb` works as usual). The compat wheel is compiled at the `x86-64-v2` baseline (Nehalem-class) and uses runtime SIMD dispatch in the embedded lance crate to pick the right kernel tier (scalar / AVX / AVX+FMA / AVX2+FMA / AVX-512) at load time, so it still goes fast on modern hardware while running cleanly on the pre-Haswell silicon. Use `lance.simd_info()` from Python to verify which tier was selected.
-
-`lancedb` and `lancedb-compat` install to the same `lancedb/` namespace and conflict at install time. Pick one. To switch, `pip uninstall lancedb` first, then `pip install lancedb-compat` (or vice-versa).
-
-If you need a custom baseline (or `lancedb-compat` isn't yet published for your platform), build from source with the override:
-
-```bash
-RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v2" maturin build --release
-pip install ./target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl
-```
-
 ### Preview Releases
 
 Stable releases are created about every 2 weeks. For the latest features and bug fixes, you can install the preview release. These releases receive the same level of testing as stable releases, but are not guaranteed to be available for more than 6 months after they are released. Once your application is stable, we recommend switching to stable releases.

python/pyproject.toml

@@ -61,11 +61,10 @@ tests = [
     "duckdb>=0.9.0",
     "pytz>=2023.3",
     "polars>=0.19, <=1.3.0",
-    "pyarrow<25",
     "pyarrow-stubs>=16.0",
-    "pylance==9.0.0rc1",
+    "pylance>=5.0.0b5",
     "requests>=2.31.0",
-    "datafusion>=54,<55",
+    "datafusion>=52,<53",
     "opentelemetry-sdk>=1.30.0",
 ]
 dev = [

python/python/lancedb/__init__.py

@@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ def tokenize(
     lower_case: bool = True,
     stem: bool = True,
     remove_stop_words: bool = True,
-    custom_stop_words: Optional[List[str]] = None,
     ascii_folding: bool = True,
     ngram_min_length: int = 3,
     ngram_max_length: int = 3,
@@ -266,10 +265,9 @@ def tokenize(
 ) -> Iterable[FtsToken]:
     """Tokenize a full-text search query using an explicit tokenizer.
 
-    This does not require an FTS index. The tokenizer options match
+    This does not require a table or FTS index. The tokenizer options match
-    :class:`lancedb.index.FTS`. ``custom_stop_words`` accepts a list of strings.
+    :class:`lancedb.index.FTS`.
     """
-
     return _tokenize(
         query,
         base_tokenizer=base_tokenizer,
@@ -278,7 +276,6 @@ def tokenize(
         lower_case=lower_case,
         stem=stem,
         remove_stop_words=remove_stop_words,
-        custom_stop_words=custom_stop_words,
         ascii_folding=ascii_folding,
         ngram_min_length=ngram_min_length,
         ngram_max_length=ngram_max_length,

python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ from .types import BaseTokenizerType
 IvfHnswPq: type[HnswPq] = HnswPq
 IvfHnswSq: type[HnswSq] = HnswSq
 IvfHnswFlat: type[HnswFlat] = HnswFlat
-AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics = Literal["aggregate", "per_worker", "full"]
 
 class MetricPoint:
     name: str
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ def tokenize(
     lower_case: bool = True,
     stem: bool = True,
     remove_stop_words: bool = True,
-    custom_stop_words: Optional[List[str]] = None,
     ascii_folding: bool = True,
     ngram_min_length: int = 3,
     ngram_max_length: int = 3,
@@ -220,7 +218,6 @@ class Table:
         data: pa.RecordBatchReader,
         mode: Literal["append", "overwrite"],
         progress: Optional[Any] = None,
-        write_parallelism: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> AddResult: ...
     async def update(
         self, updates: Dict[str, str], where: Optional[str]
@@ -298,11 +295,6 @@ class Table:
     async def fetch_blobs(
         self, column: str, row_ids: list[int]
     ) -> pa.LargeBinaryArray: ...
-    async def fetch_blob_ranges(
-        self,
-        column: str,
-        requests: List[Tuple[int, int, int]],
-    ) -> pa.LargeBinaryArray: ...
     async def fetch_blob_files(
         self, column: str, row_ids: list[int]
     ) -> list[Optional[BlobFile]]: ...
@@ -325,10 +317,6 @@ class Branches:
     ) -> Table: ...
     async def checkout(self, name: str, version: Optional[int] = None) -> Table: ...
     async def delete(self, name: str) -> None: ...
-    async def diff(self, from_branch: str) -> Dict[str, Any]: ...
-    async def merge(
-        self, from_branch: str, dry_run: bool = False
-    ) -> Dict[str, Any]: ...
 
 class IndexConfig:
     name: str
@@ -397,7 +385,6 @@ class Query:
     def fast_search(self): ...
     def with_row_id(self): ...
     def postfilter(self): ...
-    def use_lsm(self, enable: bool): ...
     def nearest_to(self, query_vec: pa.Array) -> VectorQuery: ...
     def nearest_to_text(self, query: dict) -> FTSQuery: ...
     def order_by(self, ordering: Optional[List[ColumnOrdering]]): ...
@@ -406,21 +393,14 @@ class Query:
         self, max_batch_length: Optional[int], timeout: Optional[timedelta]
     ) -> RecordBatchStream: ...
     async def explain_plan(self, verbose: Optional[bool]) -> str: ...
-    async def analyze_plan(
+    async def analyze_plan(self) -> str: ...
-        self, distributed_metrics: Optional[AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics] = None
-    ) -> str: ...
     def to_query_request(self) -> PyQueryRequest: ...
 
 class TakeQuery:
     def select(self, columns: List[str]): ...
     def with_row_id(self): ...
-    def use_lsm(self, enable: bool): ...
     async def output_schema(self) -> pa.Schema: ...
     async def execute(self) -> RecordBatchStream: ...
-    async def explain_plan(self, verbose: Optional[bool]) -> str: ...
-    async def analyze_plan(
-        self, distributed_metrics: Optional[AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics] = None
-    ) -> str: ...
     def to_query_request(self) -> PyQueryRequest: ...
 
 class FTSQuery:
@@ -433,7 +413,6 @@ class FTSQuery:
     def fast_search(self): ...
     def with_row_id(self): ...
     def postfilter(self): ...
-    def use_lsm(self, enable: bool): ...
     def get_query(self) -> str: ...
     def add_query_vector(self, query_vec: pa.Array) -> None: ...
     def nearest_to(self, query_vec: pa.Array) -> HybridQuery: ...
@@ -442,10 +421,6 @@ class FTSQuery:
     async def execute(
         self, max_batch_length: Optional[int], timeout: Optional[timedelta]
     ) -> RecordBatchStream: ...
-    async def explain_plan(self, verbose: Optional[bool]) -> str: ...
-    async def analyze_plan(
-        self, distributed_metrics: Optional[AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics] = None
-    ) -> str: ...
     def to_query_request(self) -> PyQueryRequest: ...
 
 class VectorQuery:
@@ -461,7 +436,6 @@ class VectorQuery:
     def column(self, column: str): ...
     def distance_type(self, distance_type: str): ...
     def postfilter(self): ...
-    def use_lsm(self, enable: bool): ...
     def refine_factor(self, refine_factor: int): ...
     def nprobes(self, nprobes: int): ...
     def minimum_nprobes(self, minimum_nprobes: int): ...
@@ -469,10 +443,6 @@ class VectorQuery:
     def bypass_vector_index(self): ...
     def nearest_to_text(self, query: dict) -> HybridQuery: ...
     def order_by(self, ordering: Optional[List[ColumnOrdering]]): ...
-    async def explain_plan(self, verbose: Optional[bool]) -> str: ...
-    async def analyze_plan(
-        self, distributed_metrics: Optional[AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics] = None
-    ) -> str: ...
     def to_query_request(self) -> PyQueryRequest: ...
 
 class HybridQuery:
@@ -485,7 +455,6 @@ class HybridQuery:
     def fast_search(self): ...
     def with_row_id(self): ...
     def postfilter(self): ...
-    def use_lsm(self, enable: bool): ...
     def distance_type(self, distance_type: str): ...
     def refine_factor(self, refine_factor: int): ...
     def nprobes(self, nprobes: int): ...
@@ -510,7 +479,6 @@ class PyQueryRequest:
     select: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]]
     fast_search: Optional[bool]
     with_row_id: Optional[bool]
-    use_lsm: Optional[bool]
     column: Optional[str]
     query_vector: Optional[List[pa.Array]]
     minimum_nprobes: Optional[int]

python/python/lancedb/db.py

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ from lance_namespace import (
     ListTablesResponse,
     connect as namespace_connect,
 )
-from lance_namespace.errors import NamespaceNotEmptyError, TableNotFoundError
 
 from . import __version__
 from ._lancedb import connect as lancedb_connect  # type: ignore
@@ -359,7 +358,7 @@ class DBConnection(EnforceOverrides):
 
         Data is converted to Arrow before being written to disk. For maximum
         control over how data is saved, either provide the PyArrow schema to
-        convert to or else provide a [PyArrow Table][pyarrow.Table] directly.
+        convert to or else provide a [PyArrow Table](pyarrow.Table) directly.
 
         >>> import pyarrow as pa
         >>> custom_schema = pa.schema([
@@ -747,12 +746,10 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         """
         if namespace_path is None:
             namespace_path = []
-        return LOOP.run(
+        return self._namespace_conn().list_namespaces(
-            self._conn.list_namespaces(
+            namespace_path=namespace_path,
-                namespace_path=namespace_path,
+            page_token=page_token,
-                page_token=page_token,
+            limit=limit,
-                limit=limit,
-            )
         )
 
     @override
@@ -762,12 +759,10 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         mode: Optional[str] = None,
         properties: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     ) -> CreateNamespaceResponse:
-        return LOOP.run(
+        return self._namespace_conn().create_namespace(
-            self._conn.create_namespace(
+            namespace_path=namespace_path,
-                namespace_path=namespace_path,
+            mode=mode,
-                mode=mode,
+            properties=properties,
-                properties=properties,
-            )
         )
 
     @override
@@ -777,24 +772,19 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         mode: Optional[str] = None,
         behavior: Optional[str] = None,
     ) -> DropNamespaceResponse:
-        try:
+        return self._namespace_conn().drop_namespace(
-            return LOOP.run(
+            namespace_path=namespace_path,
-                self._conn.drop_namespace(
+            mode=mode,
-                    namespace_path=namespace_path,
+            behavior=behavior,
-                    mode=mode,
+        )
-                    behavior=behavior,
-                )
-            )
-        except RuntimeError as e:
-            if "Namespace not empty" in str(e):
-                raise NamespaceNotEmptyError(str(e)) from e
-            raise
 
     @override
     def describe_namespace(
         self, namespace_path: List[str]
     ) -> DescribeNamespaceResponse:
-        return LOOP.run(self._conn.describe_namespace(namespace_path=namespace_path))
+        return self._namespace_conn().describe_namespace(
+            namespace_path=namespace_path,
+        )
 
     @override
     def list_tables(
@@ -823,6 +813,12 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         """
         if namespace_path is None:
             namespace_path = []
+        if namespace_path:
+            return self._namespace_conn().list_tables(
+                namespace_path=namespace_path,
+                page_token=page_token,
+                limit=limit,
+            )
         return LOOP.run(
             self._conn.list_tables(
                 namespace_path=namespace_path, page_token=page_token, limit=limit
@@ -920,6 +916,22 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
             raise ValueError("mode must be either 'create' or 'overwrite'")
         validate_table_name(name)
 
+        if namespace_path:
+            return self._namespace_conn().create_table(
+                name,
+                data=data,
+                schema=schema,
+                mode=mode,
+                exist_ok=exist_ok,
+                on_bad_vectors=on_bad_vectors,
+                fill_value=fill_value,
+                embedding_functions=embedding_functions,
+                namespace_path=namespace_path,
+                storage_options=storage_options,
+                data_storage_version=data_storage_version,
+                enable_v2_manifest_paths=enable_v2_manifest_paths,
+            )
+
         tbl = LanceTable.create(
             self,
             name,
@@ -932,11 +944,22 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
             embedding_functions=embedding_functions,
             namespace_path=namespace_path,
             storage_options=storage_options,
-            data_storage_version=data_storage_version,
-            enable_v2_manifest_paths=enable_v2_manifest_paths,
         )
         return tbl
 
+    def _namespace_conn(self) -> DBConnection:
+        """Return a LanceNamespaceDBConnection backed by this connection's
+        directory namespace.  Used to delegate child-namespace operations."""
+        from lancedb.namespace import LanceNamespaceDBConnection
+
+        return LanceNamespaceDBConnection(
+            self.namespace_client(),
+            read_consistency_interval=self.read_consistency_interval,
+            storage_options=self.storage_options,
+            namespace_client_impl=None,
+            namespace_client_properties=None,
+        )
+
     @override
     def open_table(
         self,
@@ -983,7 +1006,14 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
                 stacklevel=2,
             )
 
-        try:
+        if namespace_path:
+            tbl = self._namespace_conn().open_table(
+                name,
+                namespace_path=namespace_path,
+                storage_options=storage_options,
+                index_cache_size=index_cache_size,
+            )
+        else:
             tbl = LanceTable.open(
                 self,
                 name,
@@ -991,15 +1021,6 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
                 storage_options=storage_options,
                 index_cache_size=index_cache_size,
             )
-        except (RuntimeError, ValueError) as e:
-            if namespace_path and (
-                "Table not found" in str(e) or "was not found" in str(e)
-            ):
-                table_id = namespace_path + [name]
-                raise TableNotFoundError(
-                    f"Table not found: {'$'.join(table_id)}"
-                ) from e
-            raise
 
         if branch is not None:
             tbl = tbl.branches.checkout(branch, version)
@@ -1083,6 +1104,9 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         """
         if namespace_path is None:
             namespace_path = []
+        if namespace_path:
+            self._namespace_conn().drop_table(name, namespace_path=namespace_path)
+            return
         LOOP.run(
             self._conn.drop_table(
                 name, namespace_path=namespace_path, ignore_missing=ignore_missing
@@ -1529,7 +1553,7 @@ class AsyncConnection(object):
 
         Data is converted to Arrow before being written to disk. For maximum
         control over how data is saved, either provide the PyArrow schema to
-        convert to or else provide a [PyArrow Table][pyarrow.Table] directly.
+        convert to or else provide a [PyArrow Table](pyarrow.Table) directly.
 
         >>> import pyarrow as pa
         >>> custom_schema = pa.schema([

python/python/lancedb/embeddings/__init__.py

@@ -21,32 +21,3 @@ from .watsonx import WatsonxEmbeddings
 from .voyageai import VoyageAIEmbeddingFunction
 from .colpali import ColPaliEmbeddings
 from .siglip import SigLipEmbeddings
-
-# The API reference renders this package with a single mkdocstrings directive,
-# which only picks up names listed here. New embedding functions must be added
-# to both the imports above and this list, or they will silently go undocumented.
-__all__ = [
-    "EmbeddingFunction",
-    "EmbeddingFunctionConfig",
-    "TextEmbeddingFunction",
-    "EmbeddingFunctionRegistry",
-    "get_registry",
-    "register",
-    "SentenceTransformerEmbeddings",
-    "OpenAIEmbeddings",
-    "OpenClipEmbeddings",
-    "BedRockText",
-    "CohereEmbeddingFunction",
-    "GeminiText",
-    "GteEmbeddings",
-    "InstructorEmbeddingFunction",
-    "JinaEmbeddings",
-    "OllamaEmbeddings",
-    "TransformersEmbeddingFunction",
-    "ColbertEmbeddings",
-    "VoyageAIEmbeddingFunction",
-    "WatsonxEmbeddings",
-    "ColPaliEmbeddings",
-    "ImageBindEmbeddings",
-    "SigLipEmbeddings",
-]