What's Changed
* feat(node): add where method to query builder by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/183
* infrastructure changes to the build
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/compare/0e981e782bfd8d657b4f52e626f16666c9c23404...v0.1.6
python-v0.1.8
What's Changed
* Performance improvements in index creation
* Expressions now support escaping column names, timestamp / date literals, and cast expressions
* Allow recreate index with the same name on the same column
* Various Python API Improvements by wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/162
* [docs] Fixed Minor typo in embedding.md by trueutkarsh in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/167
* [Python] FIx Contextualizer validation to arguments by Nithinps021 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/168
* add black to python CI by TevinWang in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/178
* feat(python): add action to tag python releases by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/172
* Bump pylance 0.4.17 -> 0.4.20 by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/173
* feat(python): add action to build and publish wheel by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/179
New Contributors
* trueutkarsh made their first contribution in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/167
* Nithinps021 made their first contribution in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/168
* TevinWang made their first contribution in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/178
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/compare/v0.1.6-python...python-v0.1.8
v0.1.6-python
Work around tantivy issue returning empty results
What's Changed
* js docs, modal example, doc notebook integration, update doc styles by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/131
* update references to end to end examples, use s3 for langchain exampl… by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/133
* fix index docs by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/134
* Minor patch to docs by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/136
* Update mkdocs.yml by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/138
* [Doc] Metrics types. by eddyxu in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/135
* Adding nodejs CHANGELOG.md by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/132
* add code snippet for each example by changhiskhan in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/141
* Update broken doc links to refer to new directory and include gallery app for multimodal search by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/142
* add multimodal gif, add copy about fts, sql by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/144
* Modal example using LangChain by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/143
* added projection api for nodejs by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/140
* [nodejs] add npm clean task by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/146
* [nodejs] deprecated created_index in favor of createIndex. by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/145
* [nodejs] bumping version to 0.1.4 by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/147
* Better handle empty results from tantivy by changhiskhan in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/155
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/compare/v0.1.5-python...v0.1.6-python
v0.1.5-python
Thanks gssakash for improving lancedb docs to make it easier for newcomers to use LanceDB!
In this release LanceDB now supports storing tables on S3 and GCS directly.
What's Changed
* Fixed documentation link for the Youtube Transcripts Jupyter Notebook by gssakash in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/105
* Better error granularity for table operations by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/113
* refactor: pull node binaries into separate packages by wjones127 in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/88
* Generate image embeddings by eddyxu in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/111
* add openai embedding function to nodejs client by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/107
* Multimodal search demo by changhiskhan in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/118
* add existence check by jaichopra in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/112
* Revert "refactor: pull node binaries into separate packages (88)" by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/122
* [Python] Support drop table by eddyxu in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/123
* Bumping vectordb to v0.1.3 by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/124
* Use fsspec to implement table_names with cloud storage support by gsilvestrin in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/117
New Contributors
* gssakash made their first contribution in https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/105
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/compare/v0.1.4-python...v0.1.5-python
v0.1.4-python