v0.3.17 Support for nested dict columns

A warm welcome to @haoxins , a new contributor who has helped improve Lance documentation.

This release adds support for list-of-dict columns (thanks @lucazanna for reporting the bug in #715).

Also included in this release are various vector index improvements for scalability and more progress towards OPQ implementation.

What's Changed

• docs: fix the links by @haoxins in #701
• repair macos build for duckdb extension by @changhiskhan in #705
• filter evaluation with flat search by @changhiskhan in #704
• fix flaky test by @changhiskhan in #706
• [Bug] Fix transpose in MatrixView.data() by @eddyxu in #711
• Refactored variable length encoders by @gsilvestrin in #710
• add notebook for q&a bot by @changhiskhan in #707
• Allow iteratively train PQ by @eddyxu in #712
• Use relative eq and fix a compiling warning by @eddyxu in #714
• docs: fix the mod path by @haoxins in #718
• Composable vector search pipeline by @eddyxu in #716
• Fix CI failure by increasing epsilon for test_train_pq_iteratively by @eddyxu in #719
• Implement support for list of Dictionaries by @gsilvestrin in #664

New Contributors

• @haoxins made their first contribution in #701

Full Changelog: v0.3.16...v0.3.17