v0.8.18: Table update API, GPU training bug fixes

New features

• feat: add support for update queries by @wjones127 in #1585
• feat: better warnings when the PQ assignment over cosine distance is wrong by @eddyxu in #1672

Bug fixes

• fix: correctly avg centroids in update logic in GPU IVF training by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1646
• fix: prevent OOM when IVF centroids are provided by @wjones127 in #1653
• fix: fix error message for invalid nprobes by @albertlockett in #1666
• fix: support no-op filters again by @wjones127 in #1669
• fix: row_id range fix for index training on gpu by @jerryyifei in #1663
• fix: add retries for failed response stream by @wjones127 in #1671

Performance Improvements

• perf: fast L2 distance table build by @eddyxu in #1639
• perf: add a fast path for converting bytes into array when the bytes has the correct alignment by @chebbyChefNEQ in #1652
• perf: minor change to cleanup allowing for size to be collected in parallel by @westonpace in #1649
• perf: add type coersion for in-list expressions by @westonpace in #1655

Other changes

• chore: make lance-linalg benchmark ready to test bf16 data by @eddyxu in #1634
• test: fix for test by @wjones127 in #1644
• chore: minor changes to tracing instrumentation by @westonpace in #1619

New Contributors

• @jerryyifei made their first contribution in #1663

Full Changelog: v0.8.17...v0.8.18