0.62.0

Released 2026-03-09 — GitHub Release

Changes

⚠️ Breaks

• feat: Iterative Execution (#6824) @joseph-isaacs

• Public array modules (#6834) @gatesn

• Layout readers don’t need a mutable context (#6808) @robert3005

• Rename Array -> DynArray (#6760) @gatesn

• Add a VortexSession for scalar value deserialization (#6772) @connortsui20

✨ Features

• Duckdb 1.5-variegata (#6627) @myrrc

• Aggregates: ChunkedArray kernel (#6837) @gatesn

• Vortex Fixed-Shape Tensor (#6812) @connortsui20

• feat[vortex-runend]: handle canonicalizing Ree (#6788) @asubiotto

• Aggregate Fns (#6721) @gatesn

• feat[vortex-array]: support converting arrow REE dtype to vortex (#6784) @asubiotto

• feat[expr]: N-ary CASE WHEN expression (#6786) @lukekim

• gpu scan cli convert subcommand (#6704) @onursatici

• Vortex TUI web (#6774) @gatesn

🚀 Performance

• gpu: transpose patches faster (#6829) @a10y

• perf: bypass async I/O pipeline for in-memory buffer reads (#6813) @0ax1

• Canonical::empty creates arrays directly instead of going through builders (#6805) @robert3005

• perf: faster sequence array decompress (#6809) @joseph-isaacs

• perf: ensure that into_array is used for owned specific arrays (#6795) @joseph-isaacs

• fix[ci]: run slow test in parallel (#6776) @joseph-isaacs

• data parallel patching for FastLanes (#6708) @a10y

• Fast path append_to_builder ConstantArray (#6767) @palaska

🐛 Bug Fixes

• duckdb: read from local path, correct err on invalid path (#6851) @myrrc

• use full column set on empty projection list in duckdb (#6831) @myrrc

• fix: don’t commit to case when binary format (#6806) @joseph-isaacs

• fix[layout]: add required ALLOWED_ENCODINGS to WriteStrategyBuilder (#6792) @joseph-isaacs

• fix[layout]: canonical validity in compressor (#6797) @joseph-isaacs

• fix[ci]: duckdb download retry logic (#6791) @joseph-isaacs

• fix: cuda scan requires tokio (#6779) @joseph-isaacs

• fix: listview size & offset ptype mismatch (#6775) @0ax1

📖 Documentation

• add brief docs to the layouts (#6814) @connortsui20

🧰 Maintenance

24 changes

• Fix projection pushdown SLT test (#6850) @AdamGS

• Add TPC-H to sqllogictests (#6830) @AdamGS

• chore(deps): update datafusion monorepo to v52.2.0 (#6847) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update taiki-e/cache-cargo-install-action digest to 414f3dc (#6845) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update codspeedhq/action digest to 281164b (#6844) @renovate[bot]

• Use execute where possible (#6835) @gatesn

• AggregateFn naming (#6828) @gatesn

• chore[ci]: disable CUDA test (temp) codspeed new runner (#6826) @joseph-isaacs

• Engine specific SLT (#6822) @AdamGS

• Log which FS is used in DuckDB as debug (#6821) @AdamGS

• chore: switch over codspeed runner (#6819) @joseph-isaacs

• chore[ci]: use optional runs-on and also use runner by name (#6818) @joseph-isaacs

• ignore CUDA tests when cuda not available (#6796) @AdamGS

• Remove reuse lint check (#6810) @connortsui20

• perf: faster sequence array decompress iter (#6816) @joseph-isaacs

• chore[benchmark-website]: point to new benchmark bucket (#6801) @joseph-isaacs

• chore[ci]: smaller instances (#6807) @joseph-isaacs

• chore[ci]: smaller instances (#6803) @joseph-isaacs

• Branchless decimal sum (#6793) @AdamGS

• chore[ci]: Enable SPOT for cuda jobs (#6802) @joseph-isaacs

• chore[fuzz]: run issue closer every night (#6790) @joseph-isaacs

• chore: ci bump machine types (#6794) @joseph-isaacs

• chore: simplify bit-unpack CUDA generator (#6781) @0ax1

• chore: cast remove to_canonical (#6768) @joseph-isaacs