2026)¶

🎉 Highlights¶

This release, we are excited to announce support for Pandas 3 as well as performance improvements for Mac users. We also created the infrastructure for hybrid CPU-GPU execution mode (Conda package coming soon in the next release).

✨ New Features¶

Added support for Pandas 3 (compatibility in many different areas)

🏎️ Performance Improvements¶

Improved performance on Mac by switching MPI implementation from MPICH to OpenMPI

🛠️ Infrastructure¶

Improved build speed for development environment
Switched to the Mold linker for Linux
Created infrastructure for hybrid CPU-GPU execution mode

⚙️ Dependency Changes¶

Upgraded Pyarrow dependency to 23.0
Upgraded Pyiceberg optional dependency to 0.11