0.85.0

Released 2026-08-21 — GitHub Release

Changes

⚠️ Breaks

• feat(array): builders skip child canonicalization and append nested values in bulk [builders-child-stack] (#9064) @robert3005

• Remove dtype coercion logic (#9456) @robert3005

• Store Normalized validity on the array instead of in its children (#9202) @connortsui20

• Rebuild the Python runtime after fork (#9376) @robert3005

• Expression enum and Root variant (#9247) @mhk197

• Deprecate all non ArrowSession DType imports and exports (#8918) @robert3005

• refactor: rename vortex-geo to vortex-spatial (#9284) @HarukiMoriarty

✨ Features

• WasmRuntime supports non wasm-bindgen environments (#9512) @robert3005

• Support nullary RowFn execution (#9469) @connortsui20

• duckdb: batch processing in copy function (#9505) @myrrc

• Implement RowFn batch execution (#9450) @connortsui20

• duckdb: UUID export support (#9494) @myrrc

• Compare Vortex GPU decompression against a cuDF Parquet read (#9147) @joseph-isaacs

• Implement RowFn row execution (#9353) @connortsui20

• Add CUDA decompression kernels for OnPair (#8920) @robert3005

• Add plan optimizer rules and push expressions (#9196) @joseph-isaacs

• Expression constructors in python accept generators as an argument (#9410) @robert3005

• feat: add read_ranges to VortexReadAt (#9384) @joseph-isaacs

• Define RowFn and RowVisitor (#9386) @connortsui20

• Type edition memberships with a component kind (#9340) @joseph-isaacs

• duckdb: COPY TO s3 uri (#9394) @myrrc

• Expand the Python expression API (#9375) @robert3005

• Benchmark SIMD kernels per instruction set on CodSpeed (#9366) @joseph-isaacs

• feat(vortex-spatial): add convex hull scalar function (#9219) @HarukiMoriarty

• feat(vortex-spatial): add collect scalar function (#9218) @HarukiMoriarty

• Add layout scan physical plan model (#9142) @joseph-isaacs

• Don’t store min/max_is_truncated in zone maps for non-string columns (#9206) @myrrc

• Resolve every Java-binding URL through the vortex-cloud registry, adding hf:// (#9273) @robert3005

• feat(vortex-spatial): add length scalar function (#9290) @HarukiMoriarty

• feat(vortex-spatial): add area scalar function (#9203) @HarukiMoriarty

• feat(vortex-spatial): add make-line scalar function (#9201) @HarukiMoriarty

• feat(vortex-array): execute primitive interleave arrays (#9291) @HarukiMoriarty

• Support casting to Decimal in Primitive CastKernel (#9288) @mhk197

🚀 Performance

• Execute owned RowFn outputs over valid rows (#9500) @connortsui20

• perf: Stop comparing dtypes directly in BoundExpression::with_children and delegate to return_dtype (#9479) @robert3005

• Trim runtime of benchmarks to be below 1ms guidance (#9460) @robert3005

• perf: avoid rebuilding untouched nodes during expression rewrites (#9445) @robert3005

• Propagate slice bounds into onpair gpu decoding (#9457) @robert3005

• Use Fn for out-of-place lane kernels (#9419) @connortsui20

• Preserve selection in the presence of a row range (#9382) @gatesn

• Reduce number of clones and drops in expression optimisation logic (#9378) @robert3005

• Materialize list offsets once in list_view_from_list (#9299) @connortsui20

• perf(sequence): build single-match bitmap directly (#9262) @tomatotomata

• perf: allow cross-crate inlining of BitBuffer accessors (#9285) @connortsui20

• perf: Avoid redundant mask slices (#9268) @joseph-isaacs

🐛 Bug Fixes

19 changes

• Handle::spawn_nested doesn’t need to propagate handle to session (#9527) @robert3005

• Make the default session include default encodings on wasm32 (#9509) @V0ldek

• Correctly codify what’s core and stable in editions (#9478) @robert3005

• Fix build for wasm32-unknown-unknown without bindgen (#9480) @robert3005

• duckdb: support TIMESTAMP_TZ and TIME_NS (#9476) @myrrc

• fix(jni): rebase array offsets before handing batches to Java (#9466) @mprammer

• VX-45 Validate NULL views in VarBinView (#9188) @myrrc

• replace faern::oneshot with futures::oneshot (#9360) @myrrc

• Validate pco metadata when decompressing (#9444) @robert3005

• Fix empty array validity predicates (#9417) @connortsui20

• fix: stop percent-encoding object keys on the way to the request (#9441) @robert3005

• fix: honor Kleene AND semantics for Between null bounds (#9404) @connortsui20

• fix: DateTimeParts cast failures (#9402) @a10y

• Fix exponential stats rewrite for nested OR predicates (#9408) @robert3005

• Validate names and dtypes equal length on struct flatbuffer parse (#9362) @myrrc

• fix(spark): report the written file size in the commit message (#9325) @jackylee-ch

• Implement compare for map types (#9317) @robert3005

• Revert “SQL style null-on-empty semantics for Sum and Mean” (#9324) @joseph-isaacs

• SQL style null-on-empty semantics for Sum and Mean (#9113) @mhk197

📖 Documentation

• Add docs about object evolution in editions (#9364) @robert3005

🧰 Maintenance

44 changes

• adjustments to the PR template (#9536) @connortsui20

• Update dependency pip to v26.2 [SECURITY] (#9533) @renovate[bot]

• Update PR template (#9531) @connortsui20

• Fuzzer uses latest core edition (#9525) @robert3005

• Replace ScalarFnVTable::is_fallible with is_infallible (#9511) @connortsui20

• Update h2 crate beyond the rustsec vulnerability (#9506) @robert3005

• Simplify RowFn execution contracts (#9496) @connortsui20

• Remove scalar function factory (#9499) @connortsui20

• Update dependency datasets to v5.0.1 [SECURITY] (#9493) @renovate[bot]

• test(jni): characterize ScanOptions validation and write summary values (#9453) @jackylee-ch

• bench: add zone map pruning benchmark (#9439) @robert3005

• Remove Clone requirement from balanced reductions (#9442) @robert3005

• Deduplicate trusted-length buffer construction without losing vectorization (#9467) @connortsui20

• Deduplicate BitBuffer set-index visitors (#9461) @connortsui20

• Rename the precondition helpers to short_circuit (#9406) @connortsui20

• Remove the unused StrictComparison::to_compare_operator (#9405) @connortsui20

• test(spark): characterize SparkPredicateToVortexExpression conversion (#9452) @jackylee-ch

• test(jni): assert the Java and Rust expression tag tables agree (#9454) @jackylee-ch

• Lock file maintenance (#9425) @renovate[bot]

• Flatten BoundKind into BoundExpression (#9256) @mhk197

• Deprecate FromArrowArray in favour of ArrowSession array imports (#8927) @robert3005

• Remove 2 deprecated functions from Expression (#9379) @AdamGS

• Harden indexed lane sources (#9358) @connortsui20

• fix(spark): name the Vortex files when a read fails (#9326) @jackylee-ch

• MSRV check and policy documentation (#9356) @robert3005

• Update Rust crate serial_test to v4 (#9313) @renovate[bot]

• fix(spark): keep the cause when a path cannot be loaded as a table (#9330) @jackylee-ch

• Update Swatinem/rust-cache digest to 6323deb (#9308) @renovate[bot]

• fix(spark): correct the CTAS claim on VortexSessionCatalog.createTable (#9332) @jackylee-ch

• test(spark): characterize partition transform resolution (#9323) @jackylee-ch

• Bump Rust toolchain to 1.95 (#9333) @AdamGS

• Lock file maintenance (#9316) @renovate[bot]

• Update lance benchmark dependencies (major) (#9312) @renovate[bot]

• Update actions/checkout digest to 3d3c42e (#9300) @renovate[bot]

• Update actions/setup-java digest to b6effb0 (#9301) @renovate[bot]

• Update anthropics/claude-code-action digest to 6b082c4 (#9302) @renovate[bot]

• Update CodSpeedHQ/action digest to 4296e51 (#9303) @renovate[bot]

• Update dorny/paths-filter digest to ceb8a2b (#9304) @renovate[bot]

• Update dtolnay/rust-toolchain digest to 4360b52 (#9305) @renovate[bot]

• Update gradle/actions digest to 9c97196 (#9306) @renovate[bot]

• Update pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish digest to dc37677 (#9307) @renovate[bot]

• Update taiki-e/install-action digest to 7f4eb89 (#9309) @renovate[bot]

• Update actions/stale action to v11 (#9310) @renovate[bot]

• Share primitive binary operand decoding (#9295) @connortsui20