v0.6.0

❗ Deprecations

• Deprecate numba 0.49 and add python 3.9 support
  • PR: #308

🚀 New Features

• Support C function prototypes. Add Type.name property to function types
  • PR: #269
• Add command to declare external functions
  • PR: #268
• Introduce dummy target info
  • PR: #274
• Change external behavior to work with hardware-specific types
  • PR: #273
• Introduce ccompiler, Array.ptr and a prototype of treelite prediction model as an UDF
  • PR: #267
• Replace travis ci by github actions
  • PR: #279
• External with device parameter
  • PR: #275
• Fix gh-action when installing omniscidb from conda-forge
  • PR: #288
• Add a CHANGELOG file to RBC
  • PR: #287
• Support remote access and conversion of pointer values of scalar, struct, and pointer types
  • PR: #292
• Add cmath and libdevice external functions and gpu bindings to cmath and numpy
  • PR: #286
• Implement ColumnList support for runtime UDTFs
  • PR: #306
• Bump omniscidb current development version to 5.8.0; Add omniscidb 5.6 to CI
  • PR: #349
• Add support for input_id annotation
  • PR: #347
• Tests for Numba 0.54.0 RC3
  • PR: #353
• Support output column allocation within a table function
  • PR: #341

🐛 Bug Fixes

• External with device parameter
  • PR: #275
• Add clang++ to conda environment
  • PR: #320
• Remove CircleCI from readme
  • PR: #321
• Fix test_omnisci_array_null tests
  • PR: #330
• Fix require_version date in test_omnisci_column_arguments
  • PR: #331
• Various test fixes
  • PR: #335
• Disable caching for logaddexp/logaddexp2
  • PR: #338
• Fix incorrect test result - boolean array containing nulls.
  • PR: #344
• Enable docker-dev tests for branches
  • PR: #348
• Support omnisci server option --allow-query-step-cpu-retry=1
  • PR: #358

📘 Documentation

• Fix readthedocs build
  • PR: #309

⚙️ Tests

• Test cmath functions using RemoteJIT
  • PR: #301
• Fix testing rbc in CI
  • PR: #316
• Implement tests for UDTF compositions
  • PR: #315
• Tests for MLPack support: dbscan, kmeans
  • PR: #317
• Add tests for sizer with default value - omniscidb-internal PR 5403
  • PR: #313
• Address reviewer comments for PR 313
  • PR: #333
• Various test fixes
  • PR: #335
• Enable gpu trigonometric tests
  • PR: #339
• Fix incorrect test result - boolean array containing nulls.
  • PR: #344
• Add test for dict encoded string types - omniscidb-internal PR 5492
  • PR: #322
• Speedup cmath tests
  • PR: #350
• Update supported casting rules
  • PR: #352
• add test for issue gh-109
  • PR: #355
• Support omnisci server option --allow-query-step-cpu-retry=1
  • PR: #358

Uncategorized

• Fix docstring
  • PR: #272
• move IS_GPU/IS_CPU out of omniscidb
  • PR: #281