0.8.0 Release

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This issue keeps track of the planned features for the upcoming 0.8.0 release.

Features

• WASM (Chang)
  • Release pipeline in CI
  • Docs generation in CI
  • Creating and merging PR to master
• Full-text search
  • Utility to functions to see indices that have been created with our without the extension installation (Ziyi)
  • Explorer Visual Changes Research (Prashanth)
  • Feature: Better error messages when forgetting to load extension #4760
  • Improve error message when trying to drop a property on a table associated with an index #4762
• Deprecate REL TABLE GROUP (Xiyang)
  • Merge PR to master
  • Changes to Explorer (Chang)
  • From Langchain + LlamaIndex (Prashanth)
  • Add support for ALTER TABLE (Royi)
• Skip errors from DataFrame scans
• Support skip/limit options for DataFrame scan. Support skip/limit options for pandas scan #4662

APIs

• Feature: Support list parameters in Node.js client library #4582 (Chang)
• Feature: Support for Array/Map/InternalID types in query parameters  #4708 (Royi)
• Add checkpoint configuration parameters to the API bindings #4575 (Royi)

Performance Optimizations

• Parallel Hash Aggregate (Ben) Hash aggregate finalization parallelization #4655
• Hyperloglog Optimizer

Bugfixes

• Bug: Comment on Rel Table not showing #4778 (Guodong)
• Bug: segfault when creating rel #4783 (Guodong)
• Bug: Failure during insert/copy after drop and add column in a table #4777 (Guodong)
• Bug: benchmark query push-down-limit-into-distinct fails randomly on CI #4724 (Guodong)
• Bug: Error: unordered_map::at thrown by Kuzu #4716 (Guodong)
• Bug: Logic bug causing non-existing relations returned #4715 (Guodong)
• Bug: Kuzu wrongly output non-existing relations in certain cases #4189 (Guodong)
• Bug: Kuzu hangs with undirected recursive join and TRAIL path semantic #4540 (Guodong)
• Bug: GDS recursive join consumes too much memory #4459 (Guodong)
• Bug: WITH clause and OPTIONAL MATCH fails in combination with WHERE EXISTS subquery #4301
• Expose maxDBSize to CLI config paramter #4731 (Guodong)
• Bug: kuzu is broken (hangs up!) with commit 5b3d72d2eb11e0eb928da357196575ffc06f7079 #4730 (Royi)
• Bug: std::bad_alloc thrown in CSV sniffer if incorrect tab delimiter provided #4719 (Royi)
• Bug: API Interrupt test fails on CI #4431 (Royi/Chang)
• Bug: multiple call statement result in binder exception #4740 (Ziyi)
• Bug: Problematic aggregaion function implementation causing query parsing error #4714 (Ziyi)
• Bug: Incorrect casting in standalone call #4566 (Ziyi/Howe)
• Bug: JVM is crashing on startup #4550 (Chang)
• Bug: Database import and export fails nondeterministically in WebAssembly environment #4385 (Chang)
• Bug: FTS Error while querying index #4756 (Ziyi)
• Rename column not reflected in show_indexes() #4761 (Ziyi)
• Bug: Inaccurate error while creating REL TABLE with conflict #4767 (Xiyang)
• Bug: table_info() returns inconsistent result after dropping child table columns #4768 (Xiyang)
• Bug: Segmentation fault error for list lambda function x -> label(x) ... #4541 (Xiyang)
• Bug: Duplicate Rel Table Name #4772 (Xiyang)
• Bug: Default values when adding new columns doesn't work if casting of a literal is required #4782 (Xiyang)
• Bug: Seg fault in copy from statement  #4615 (Xiyang)
• Bug: [JAVA-API] Duplicated records being returned #4814 (Royi)
• Bug: Index out of bounds when importing to existing table in wasm demo #4749 (Chang)

Documentation

• WASM (Chang) Update docs for WASM API kuzu-docs#331
• FTS (Ziyi) FTS index kuzu-docs#332
• Skip errors from pandas scans (Royi) Update ignore errors docs as it now works on pandas/pyarrow kuzu-docs#334
• Skip/limit parameters for Pandas scan (Royi/Prashanth) Fix ignore errors in DataFrame section kuzu-docs#338
• Limit/skip number as parameter expression (Ziyi)Document limit/skip number as parameter expression kuzu-docs#333
• Deprecate REL TABLE GROUP (Ziyi) Add doc for rel_table_group kuzu-docs#349
• Java API (auto-generated)
• Import/export databases with indexes (Ziyi) Document the behaviour of import/export database with indexes kuzu-docs#340
• Add doc for type casting when scanning from relational database (Ziyi) doc supported types/converted rules in postgres/duckdb/sqlite scanner kuzu-docs#326
• Add documentation for YIELD kuzu-docs#346 (Ziyi)

Testing

• WASM Testing (Chang should fill this in)
• FTS Testing
  • Test CLI syntax highlighting
• Skip errors from pandas scans
• Deprecate REL TABLE GROUP in Langchain and LlamaIndex (Prashanth)

Content

• Release Blog (Guodong draft)
  • WASM (Chang)
  • FTS (Ziyi)
  • Rel group changes
  • Performance optimization
• WASM Blog (Semih + Chang + Prashanth)