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Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
The DuckDB team announces DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, its biggest feature release so far: a polished Quack protocol for DuckDB as a server, asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible PEG-based SQL parser, plus breaking changes and migration notes.
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The Polars team ships Polars 2.0: initial out-of-core spill-to-disk support on by default, core engine and optimizer speedups, first-class SQL that leads DuckDB and DataFusion on TPC-H and TPC-DS style benchmarks, a new Map dtype, and stricter dtype handling, plus a detailed benchmark appendix.
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Polars is releasing its first 2.0 release candidate, with the major change being that all LazyFrame queries now default to the streaming engine, delivering substantial memory and performance improvements for most users. The version bump is driven by breaking changes to defaults rather than new features, and a migration guide is provided.
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