Native Lance support on Hugging Face Hub, Git-style branching and shallow clone for AI data, and Arrow-native geospatial with R-Tree indexing, plus steady OSS and community momentum.
Kicking off 2026 with Lance-native SQL retrieval via DuckDB, Uber-scale multi-bucket storage, 1.5M IOPS benchmarks, and continued OSS momentum across the Lance ecosystem.
Our December newsletter highlights Lance SDK v1.0.0, our upcoming Lance community sync, Wikisearch demo, and the latest product and community updates.
Our November newsletter highlights Lance community governance, a deep dive on Lance and Iceberg, a demo of Netflix's multimodal search, previous talk recordings, and the latest product and community updates.