0.4.0

What's changed

🚀 Features

• Support reading avro data block for MOR tables (#309) by @xushiyan
• Add table and timeline APIs for retrieving useful info (#313) by @xushiyan
• Add blocking APIs for Table and FileGroupReader (#321) by @xushiyan
• Support more timestamp formats for time-travel and incremental APIs (#302) by @hanbings
• Add C++ APIs for FileGroupReader (#322) by @xushiyan
• Support reading MOR delete block (#356) by @xushiyan
• Update python setup to support 3.13 (#361) by @xushiyan

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make local timezone test more robust (#308) by @xushiyan
• Resolve env vars for creating standalone file group reader (#345) by @xushiyan
• Handle zero event time ordering (#357) by @xushiyan
• Handle schema resolution for empty commit (#359) by @xushiyan

🚜 Refactor

• Move Makefile to root directory (#283) by @nakul-py
• Use OptionResolver to handle options (#341) by @xushiyan
• Improve schema resolution flow (#364) by @xushiyan

📚 Documentation

• Update readme docs and the project description (#348) by @xushiyan

🛠️ Build

• (deps) Upgrade arrow, pyo3, datafusion, rustc (#297) by @xushiyan
• (deps) Bump apache/skywalking-eyes from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0 (#300) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Bump ruff from 0.5.2 to 0.9.10 in /python (#307) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Bump ruff from 0.11.0 to 0.11.2 in /python (#315) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Bump ruff from 0.11.2 to 0.11.7 in /python (#327) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Bump mypy from 1.10.1 to 1.15.0 in /python (#298) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Update zip-extract requirement from 0.2 to 0.3 (#332) by @dependabot[bot]
• (deps) Add -dev for current development version (#362) by @xushiyan
• (deps) Upgrade datafusion & arrow, and restrict deps upgrade to patch-level (#386) by @xushiyan

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Fix src verify script (#279) by @xushiyan
• Update release guide and issue templates (#282) by @xushiyan
• Update changelog for 0.3.0 (#288) by @xushiyan
• Update dependabot settings and readme links (#294) by @xushiyan
• Fix codecov report generation (#316) by @xushiyan
• Fix codecov upload issue (#318) by @xushiyan
• (ci) Update python test setup and upload nightly wheels (#320) by @xushiyan
• (ci) Parallel run integration tests (#340) by @xushiyan
• Update asf.yaml for more automation (#349) by @xushiyan
• (ci) Replace archived actions-rs actions (#351) by @assignUser

New Contributors

• @assignUser made their first contribution in #351

• @hanbings made their first contribution in #302

• @nakul-py made their first contribution in #283