v0.6.1

What's Changed 🚀

✨ Features

• feat: expose image attribute as expression @Jay-ju (#4848)
• feat(flotilla): no shuffle for hash join if conditions are met @colin-ho (#5135)
• feat: .list.append Expression @srilman (#5159)
• feat: Base64 Encoding @srilman (#5158)
• feat: adds support for classify_text @rchowell (#5113)
• feat: Add Arrow IPC conversion for RecordBatches @srilman (#5143)
• feat: unnest param on @daft.func @kevinzwang (#5132)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: Account for unschedulable udf actors @colin-ho (#4987)
• fix: Cleanup CLI Progress Bar Output @srilman (#5157)
• fix: flaky test test_transformers_image_embedder_other @kevinzwang (#5130)

🚀 Performance

• perf: Use count_rows on fragment to reduce lance scans with limit pushdowns only @colin-ho (#5120)

📖 Documentation

• docs: improve text readability on examples page @ykdojo (#5182)
• docs: add TrendShift badge to README @ykdojo (#5181)
• docs: improve explode method documentation with null/empty list examples @ykdojo (#5164)
• docs: fix broken tutorial links and remove redundant file @ykdojo (#5154)

👷 CI

• ci: Reduce free disk space time @colin-ho (#5178)
• ci: re-add mac os unit tests on main @kevinzwang (#5163)
• ci: fix TPC-H benchmark workflows @kevinzwang (#5123)
• ci: Pipe unit test failures through duration aggregator @colin-ho (#5161)
• ci: remove macos from PR test suite @kevinzwang (#5142)
• ci: Aggregate test durations @colin-ho (#5129)

🔧 Maintenance

• chore: add PR conventions note to AGENTS.md @ykdojo (#5166)

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1