4.5.0

What's Changed

• Performance and encodings by @aloneguid in #249
• Massive performance improvement in RLE encoder/decoder (tests to follow)
• Support DELTA_BINARY_PACKED encoding.
• Support DELTA_LENGTH_BYTE_ARRAY encoding.
• Support DELTA_BYTE_ARRAY encoding.
• Reading back the schema with adjusted encoding of DateTime, is not re… by @dxdjgl in #248
• Testing the 'Unspecified Kind' behaviour (and Local behaviour) by @xclayl in #253
• Fix issue destroying existing file with append in ParquetConvert.Seri… by @oyhovd in #259

New Contributors

• @oyhovd made their first contribution in #259

Performance

In general, this library outperforms native code in raw write performance which was the aim of this release (see chart). Unfortunately, writing strings is still slightly slower, which will improve in the next versions.

Full Changelog: 4.4.7...4.5.0