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Daft v0.7.11 → v0.7.13: Bidirectional ASOF Joins, Arrow PyCapsule, and Iceberg Idempotent Commits
Three Daft releases cut May 12–15. Bidirectional streaming ASOF joins, Arrow PyCapsule, Iceberg idempotent commits and table properties, Spark month arithmetic.
daft.VideoFile: Seek Lazily, Get Frames
daft.VideoFile decodes only the frames you need. Keyframes, time-sampled, or windowed seek, built for robotics datasets, dashcams, and moderation queues.
Daft Extensions Featuring daft-h3: Native Rust Performance, Community Owned
Daft now supports native extensions via Apache Arrow's C Data Interface. daft-h3 is the first community extension — 9 Rust-native H3 geospatial functions, 3–16x faster than Python UDFs.
Daft v0.7.10: 30 contributors, 41 new features, distributed asof joins
30 contributors shipped Daft v0.7.10 — the most participation in any Daft release to date. The result: 41 new features and functions across distributed joins, duplicate detection, temporal arithmetic,
Audio transcription at scale with daft.AudioFile
How to transcribe thousands of audio files with Whisper using daft.AudioFile — handling resampling, silence splitting, and worker-resident model loading without the boilerplate.
Image Embeddings: Tutorial & Examples
Learn about the concept of image embeddings, their various use cases, and best practices for handling them in data processing workflows.
Multimodal Embeddings: Tutorial & Examples
Learn multimodal embedding techniques for cross-modal search, recommendation systems, and content moderation applications.
Daft v0.7.9: Temporal Arithmetic, Video Frame Decoding, and Native UUID
Migrating ETL workloads from Spark means hitting gaps in date arithmetic — functions like `date_add`, `date_diff`, and epoch conversions that Spark users take for granted. Daft v0.7.9 closes that gap
Daft v0.7.5: A Plugin System, 5x Faster Parquet, and a Real-Time Query Debugger
Native Extensions via Stable C ABI, Live Query Dashboard, and 2-5x faster Parquet Reads on Nested Types