0.86.0

Released 2026-09-11 — GitHub Release

Changes

⚠️ Breaks

• Use VortexError in editions (#9833) @robert3005

• Remove the unstable encodings feature (#9710) @robert3005

• Replace normalized encoding with explicit normalization (#9767) @connortsui20

• vortex-file: open_cached uses an explicit cache key (#9733) @myrrc

• feat: require Send on VortexWrite and its futures (#9648) @claude[bot]

• Add physical parameters to OutputSink (#9585) @connortsui20

• Let a row dispatch declare a runtime output dtype (#9581) @connortsui20

✨ Features

• Add tensor row inputs for RowFn (#9776) @connortsui20

• duckdb: vortex_version() macro (#9787) @myrrc

• feat(btrblocks): compress binary arrays with VarBin offsets and FSST (#9576) @joseph-isaacs

• refactor(array): propagate allocators through builders (#9670) @gatesn

• feat: CMake integration for vortex-ffi & vortex-cpp (#9774) @0ax1

• Split SplitBy::Layout into Layout and LayoutSubSplitting variants (#9043) @robert3005

• Assert logical and physical plans for TPC-H SLT tests (#9789) @AdamGS

• feat(ci): build and bundle Windows artifacts for the Java and Python bindings (#9739) @robert3005

• cache DTypes parsed from flatbuffers (#9765) @myrrc

• Support runend canonicalization for lists (#9708) @danking

• Bloom filter implementation (#9398) @joacoc

• refactor(array): use buffer allocator in execution context (#9669) @gatesn

• feat(buffer): add allocator-backed storage (#9668) @gatesn

• Add Utf8 types for RowFn (#9715) @connortsui20

• Add mechamism to lock edition definition and how to evolve objects in editions (#9660) @robert3005

• duckdb: propagate per-file “partition” stats (#9639) @myrrc

• feat(duckdb): report per-file column statistics from the vortex COPY writer (#9471) @moshap-firebolt

• feat(ffi): add vx_scalar_new_extension for extension-typed literals (#9691) @balicat

• Support run-end canonicalize for decimals (#9707) @danking

• Support canonicalising decimal RunEnd arrays (#9665) @onursatici

• Add filter-and-scatter RowFn execution (#9521) @connortsui20

• feat(cuda): add a FastLanes delta decode kernel (#9535) @joseph-isaacs

• duckdb: support hive partitioning and ‘filename’ column (#9540) @myrrc

🚀 Performance

• Pushdown filter through scalar function regardless of number of children (#9830) @robert3005

• FileSystem for local reads (#9773) @myrrc

• perf(onpair): speed up compression with onpair 0.2.1 and row training (#9806) @gargiulofrancesco

• Change DateTimeParts to i32 (#9796) @myrrc

• perf(datafusion): Only wrap stream in prunable stream when predicate can still change (#9788) @AdamGS

• Push get_item through wrapper arrays (#9719) @danking

• Avoid materializing constant structs for select (#9718) @danking

• Avoid row index canonicalization for trivial masks (#9717) @danking

• perf(fastlanes): borrow unpack inputs (#9731) @gatesn

• perf(buffer): store alignment exponents (#9730) @gatesn

• Avoid materializing constant structs for get_item (#9716) @danking

• Trim constant-operand cases from scalar function benchmarks (#9696) @connortsui20

• Decode RowFn constants directly (#9680) @connortsui20

• Pack Boolean RowFn output directly (#9626) @connortsui20

• Conditionally slice elements to selected index bounds before filtering wide list arrays (#9679) @mhk197

• Avoid iterative drop for shallow expression trees (#9657) @robert3005

• Better fixed-width buffer filtering (#8723) @robert3005

• Use indexed sources for fallible constant rows (#9629) @connortsui20

• Map constant RowFn inputs directly (#9628) @connortsui20

• Build packed boolean output (#9620) @connortsui20

• Avoid single-chunk grouped accumulator states (#9597) @mhk197

• refactor(vortex-spatial): execute distance with RowFn (#9616) @HarukiMoriarty

• Measure numeric arithmetic and comparison benchmarks per CPU feature (#9599) @connortsui20

• Benchmark primitive comparison across CPU features (#9598) @connortsui20

• duckdb: MultiFileReader interface (#9383) @myrrc

• Use dense retry for nullable row functions (#9517) @connortsui20

🐛 Bug Fixes

17 changes

• Fix DuckDB scans over Vortex being merged or stalling (#9803) @joseph-isaacs

• fix(cloud): parse OpenDAL boolean properties the way object_store does (#9782) @jackylee-ch

• Fix: Use arrow’s casting logic to cast file stats when reporting them to DF (#9818) @AdamGS

• fix(bench): clamp producer values to signed database bounds (#9800) @connortsui20

• fix(buffer): reject ZSTs and address allocator review comments (#9807) @gatesn

• fix(vx): stop advertising –json on ‘vx tree array’ (#9780) @jackylee-ch

• Support unsigned sequence in the DuckDB exporter (#9720) @danking

• fix(dict): cap max_dict_bytes at the u32 range BinaryView addresses (#9690) @mnshdw

• fix(dict): clear encoder state in DictEncoder::reset (#9693) @mnshdw

• bench: run the full compress suite under --gpu-decompress (#9399) @joseph-isaacs

• duckdb: forbid aggregations and filter pushdowns over virtual columns (#9238) @myrrc

• fix: update the delta snapshot (#9608) @rapour

• feat: sequence cast compute (#8403) @siddarth2810

• fix: price delta’s bases and tail padding in its compression estimate (#9602) @rapour

• fix: pad delta remainder with last value (#9557) @rapour

• fix: stabilize conjunct selectivity (#9543) @joseph-isaacs

• Carry partial RowFn validity with MaskValues (#9534) @connortsui20

📖 Documentation

8 changes

• Comprehensive security policy and vulnerability reporting process (#9747) @joseph-isaacs

• docs(vortex-layout): mark the bloom filter aggregate as unstable (#9753) @connortsui20

• Clarify Boolean collection code generation (#9676) @connortsui20

• docs(vortex-spatial): add crate overview (#9683) @HarukiMoriarty

• Clarify RowFn infallibility documentation (#9618) @connortsui20

• docs(java): replace the Java API example that no longer compiles (#9635) @jackylee-ch

• docs: filter pushdown is connected, not future work (#9637) @jackylee-ch

• duckdb: add release docs (#9575) @myrrc

🧰 Maintenance

38 changes

• Align AGENTS.md instructions with rest of guidance in the repo (#9826) @robert3005

• Fix onpair btrblocks golden snapshot (#9835) @robert3005

• Fix python formatting after typechecker change (#9828) @robert3005

• duckdb: don’t optimize_recursive() before exporting chunks (#9795) @myrrc

• Replace basedpyright with ty for Python type checking (#9546) @robert3005

• Fix deprecation warning in btrblocks varbin scheme (#9819) @robert3005

• bench: track small u8 dictionary take (#9566) @joseph-isaacs

• Replace filter-and-scatter RowFn fallback with filtered valid-row execution (#9645) @robert3005

• Adds clickbench logical & physical plans (#9794) @joseph-isaacs

• Update alp to 0.0.4 (#9793) @robert3005

• Switch wasmer setup to setup-wasmer and pin version to 7.4.0 (#9786) @robert3005

• Fix path WORK_DIR path normalization in SLT tests (#9790) @AdamGS

• Lock file maintenance (#9563) @renovate[bot]

• Update rui314/setup-mold digest to 7e4f20a (#9560) @renovate[bot]

• Update taiki-e/install-action digest to d438492 (#9561) @renovate[bot]

• Lock file maintenance (#9139) @renovate[bot]

• Reuse compression/decompression results in compression benchmarks (#9744) @robert3005

• ci: configure RunsOn volume sizes (#9772) @robert3005

• Move benchmark machines to c8gd.metal-24xl (#9761) @robert3005

• Return the lazy filtered row index array directly (#9760) @robert3005

• refactor(decimal): dispatch numeric kernels on one storage width (#9756) @mhk197

• chore: deny clippy::inline_always at the workspace level (#9726) @joseph-isaacs

• nit: go directly from alignment to usize (#9666) @danking

• docs(spark): refresh the user guide against the shipped connector (#9607) @jackylee-ch

• docs(vx): state which inspection commands support –json (#9638) @jackylee-ch

• Add list filter benchmark (#9686) @mhk197

• Use SumV2 in list_sum (#9621) @mhk197

• fix(policy): update policy to match the new claude and codex bot ids (#9650) @robert3005

• refactor(vortex-spatial): execute geo kernels with RowFn (#9623) @HarukiMoriarty

• Upgrade fastlanes to 0.7.0 (#9641) @robert3005

• Bump Datafusion to 55 (#9334) @AdamGS

• refactor(runend): clarify filter implementation (#9633) @connortsui20

• refactor(dict): clarify compute invariants (#9632) @connortsui20

• refactor: simplify array optimizer (#9634) @connortsui20

• Add sum_v2 with SQL empty-input semantics (#9590) @mhk197

• Update anthropics/claude-code-action digest to 16b3b31 (#9559) @renovate[bot]

• Extend MaskValuesRef to filter execution (#9542) @connortsui20

• Upgrade toolchain to 1.98.0 (#9539) @robert3005