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Lance shipped Java support for opening datasets at specific branches or tags, alongside a batch of memory and performance improvements across the core engine. The week focused on stability: fixes to index ranking, dictionary equality, schema evolution handling, and concurrent execution isolation,…
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fix(index): remap every segment of a tagged index instead of only the first (#9728)
fix(merge_insert): rewrite rows for partial blob sources on indexed joins (#9742)
fix(index): admit MemWAL state updates on tables with a tagged fragment reuse history (#9729)
fix(index): check rewrite groups one by one and decode the FRI ledger only when needed (#9731)
fix(cleanup): tolerate missing objects without error logs (#9709)
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