🦆 Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” We are proud to release DuckDB 2.0.0, named after the cinnamon teal (Spatula cyanoptera), a striking reddish-brown duck found in the western Americas. 🌎 DuckDB 2.0.0 is the biggest DuckDB feature release so far. It ships a polished version of the Quack protocol, which turns DuckDB into a full-fledged server. It improves performance and lowers costs through supporting asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, and a dedicated “agent mode”. It also empowers extension developers with a new SQL parser that allows adding new statements, clauses, and keywords, a new API to build on, and a new mechanism to distribute extensions more easily. In our announcement blog post, we summarize the highlights and then walk through the key changes and give guidance on how to migrate to 2.0. For the complete release notes, see the release page on GitHub⁠. duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announ… #DuckDB

Bit more than a decade in training, no pain no train. 💪 @BEBischof nerd sniped me into this talk with offer to have a Cat to give the keynote. Still Training: A Decade of Learning the Hard Way @ Reverie by LanceDB on Nov 5 in SF 🌉 You get to hear me about distributed training from the trenches: Hardware codesign, async and sync training -- when we almost decided to put async into chips From big batch gradient descent with parallel boosting from stochastic optimization with duals to online learning where we had regrets, to higher order methods that scale that was almost second order that nobody believed it.