0.68.0

Released 2026-04-09 — GitHub Release

Changes

⚠️ Breaks

• Move Array::serialize -> ArrayPlugin::Serialize (#7348) @gatesn

• Unify id creation for ScalarFns and rename is_null to vortex.is_null (#7325) @robert3005

• Rework Scheme estimation in compressor (#7230) @connortsui20

• block serialization for the existing aggregations (#7322) @blaginin

• break[array]: remove old vtable! macro (#7317) @joseph-isaacs

• Hoist Slots (#7287) @gatesn

• Fix Array::validity (#7285) @gatesn

• Array VTables Follow Up (#7276) @gatesn

• Clean up btrblocks compressor interface (#7274) @connortsui20

• Invert thevortex-tensor dependency (#7271) @connortsui20

• Array VTables (#7215) @gatesn

• break: apply should use apply(self: Arc<Self>, ...) over apply(&self, ...) (#7259) @joseph-isaacs

• ffi: expose array validity, allow creating primitive arrays (#7148) @myrrc

• remove deprecated StructStrategy (#7242) @a10y

• Remove deprecated compute traits (#7231) @gatesn

• Pluggable Compressor (#7018) @connortsui20

• array slots (#6870) @joseph-isaacs

✨ Features

• Add IsNull expression to vortex-jni (#7358) @robert3005

• feat: add an arrays slots macro (#7360) @joseph-isaacs

• Allow loading “foreign” plugins for UI/TUI/Serde (#7347) @gatesn

• Pull out L2Denorm from TurboQuant (#7349) @connortsui20

• Buffer Allocator Abstraction (#7337) @gatesn

• feat: iterative execution for most arrays in vortex-array (#7335) @joseph-isaacs

• Dynamic WHT rounds in TurboQuant (#7330) @connortsui20

• feat[gpu]: support mixed-width types in dynamic dispatch (#7331) @0ax1

• feat: fsst inline varbin child (#7316) @joseph-isaacs

• L2 Denorm expression (#7329) @connortsui20

• Normalize Execution (#7278) @gatesn

• Allow inserting non-Default values to VortexSession (#7321) @gatesn

• feat: First Last (#7313) @blaginin

• benchmarks website dark mode (#6886) @myrrc

• Tensor Matchers (#7300) @connortsui20

• feat: Count aggegate (#7267) @blaginin

• TurboQuant encoding for Vectors (#7269) @connortsui20

• Cleaner WriteStrategyBuilder interface (#7275) @connortsui20

• Fix tensor expressions and add InnerProduct expression (#7277) @connortsui20

• ffi: StructArray creation (#7260) @myrrc

• feat: iterative execute alp/alp_rd/bitpacking (#7233) @joseph-isaacs

• Crosshairs for filemap (#7247) @gatesn

• Support partitionBy in VortexSparkDataSource (#7218) @robert3005

• Add compressor for constant nonnullable and all valid bool arrays (#7221) @robert3005

• PatchedArray: basics and wiring (#7002) @a10y

• Approximate expressions for tensor types (#7226) @connortsui20

• Deploy Explorer (#7211) @gatesn

• Expose expressions for C API (#7190) @myrrc

• feat(cuda): single-pass dispatch plan builder (#7197) @0ax1

• New Parquet-Variant encoding (#7130) @AdamGS

🚀 Performance

• Add inner product and cosine similarity optimizations (#7364) @connortsui20

• feat: iterative execution patched array (#7345) @joseph-isaacs

• Fix StructArray / StructData after migration (#7305) @gatesn

• alp_rd: speedup (#7064) @joseph-isaacs

• perf: speed up TryFrom for Primitive (#7223) @joseph-isaacs

• feat: Introduce writeBatchFfi in Java JNI to avoid IPC serialization overhead (#7205) @JingsongLi

🐛 Bug Fixes

17 changes

• fix: maturin never logs (#7367) @danking

• Fix patch_chunk index OOB when slicing ALP arrays mid-chunk (#7354) @abnobdoss

• AVX2 take handles indices that are equal to the index type max value (#7359) @robert3005

• Fix TSan data race with FFI tests (#7244) @myrrc

• Don’t re-run benchmarks nightly (#7338) @AdamGS

• fix[encodings]: take in progress buffer into account on fsst builder … (#7318) @asubiotto

• RLE handles decompression of indices where invalid positions are clobbered (#7255) @robert3005

• fix[vortex-array]: fix offset_within_chunk underflow on patches array (#7312) @asubiotto

• fix: array correctly update their validity (#7307) @joseph-isaacs

• Fix TurboQuant metadata to be protobuf (#7301) @connortsui20

• Fix ALP mask patches dtype (#7293) @gatesn

• fix[ffi]: to and from ffi types should have a fully defined cast (#7261) @joseph-isaacs

• fix: fix typo in compressor scheme (#7241) @joseph-isaacs

• buffered strategy to not use eof for the final chunk (#7219) @onursatici

• fix[vortex-array]: fix overflow on FSL element take indices (#7214) @asubiotto

• fix[ci]: correct perms to upload back compat fixtures (#7207) @joseph-isaacs

• fix: restrict wasm-bindgen to browser wasm, fixing wasip1 builds (#7208) @0ax1

📖 Documentation

• docs: add back array children docs moved from slots (#7249) @joseph-isaacs

🧰 Maintenance

30 changes

• add env flag for Patched array (#7314) @a10y

• Add a dedicated CI build profile (#7357) @AdamGS

• Remove generic rle (#7350) @connortsui20

• fix lint on develop (#7346) @a10y

• Enable clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr lint and fix all violations (#7262) @joseph-isaacs

• Symlink CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md to support other coding agents (#7333) @AdamGS

• TurboQuant cleanup part 2 (#7326) @connortsui20

• TurboQuant Cleanup part 1 (#7320) @connortsui20

• chore(deps): update dependency vite to v6.4.2 [security] (#7303) @renovate[bot]

• drop unused code (#7304) @a10y

• chore(deps): update taiki-e/cache-cargo-install-action digest to 66c9585 (#7291) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update actions/github-script digest to 450193c (#7290) @renovate[bot]

• ArrayPlugin (#7302) @gatesn

• Bring back file-size comments (#7296) @a10y

• Fix clippy on develop (#7295) @gatesn

• Correctly gate zstd (#7283) @connortsui20

• Remove unused approvals workflow triggers (#7280) @gatesn

• chore(deps): update release-drafter/release-drafter action to v7 (#6943) @renovate[bot]

• Require two humans for bot authored PRs (#7232) @gatesn

• take VortexSession by ref (#7270) @connortsui20

• make struct_fields boxed, not arc’d (#7257) @myrrc

• Fill out a few small pieces in Variant (#7209) @AdamGS

• chore: have on demand validity and patches for array remove slot extraction (#7217) @joseph-isaacs

• fix[vortex-array]: update an overflow test (#7229) @asubiotto

• Move stuff around vortex-tensor (#7225) @connortsui20

• Assert_arrays_eq also executes the array and compares the results against scalar_at (#7222) @robert3005

• feat[array]: compositional array display logic (#7082) @joseph-isaacs

• chore(deps): update codspeedhq/action digest to d872884 (#7202) @renovate[bot]

• chore(deps): update taiki-e/cache-cargo-install-action digest to 511847d (#7203) @renovate[bot]

• Vortex Explorer UI (#7165) @gatesn