### Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? We have had good luck writing up quarterly updates for DataFusion, most recently: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2024/01/19/datafusion-34.0.0/ (see https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/6780) ### Describe the solution you'd like Write a blog post ### Describe alternatives you've considered _No response_ ### Additional context _No response_
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alamb commentedon Mar 13, 2024
I am starting to collect a list of things to highlight here
CREATE FUNCTION#9333 (thanks @milenkovicm)datafusion-functions-*crates #9285Performance improvements:
specialized group values for strings/binary Implement specialized group values for single Uft8/LargeUtf8/Binary/LargeBinary column #8827
Meetup
Agenda for DataFusion meetup 2024 is looking good UPDATE: VENUE IS FULL Invitation: Mar 25, 2024 DataFusion meetup before the DataCouncil March 2024 in Austin TX #8522
DataFusion SIGMOD paper about DataFusion was Finalize SIGMOD 2024 paper ~(if accepted)~ #8373 (comment)
SQL to String features from @devinjdangelo / @backkem
Maybe REcursive CTEs:
alamb commentedon Mar 16, 2024
CTE support: #9619
Omega359 commentedon Mar 18, 2024
Just a few things that come to mind:
Functions:
alamb commentedon Apr 1, 2024
WASM from @waynexia #9834
alamb commentedon Jul 1, 2024
I am now officially out of time and excuses -- I need to write this post soon
alamb commentedon Jul 9, 2024
Started gathering ideas apache/datafusion-site#6
alamb commentedon Jul 22, 2024
I plan one more round of copyediting and then posting in 2 days. Please leave comments if you have any: apache/datafusion-site#6
alamb commentedon Jul 24, 2024
Blog post is live: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/07/24/datafusion-40.0.0/
alamb commentedon Jul 24, 2024
Filed #11631 to track the next one