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4.5.0

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1 features🐛 3 fixes🔧 1 symbols

Summary

This release introduces native support for the Lance dataset format and includes several bug fixes, notably improving error handling for invalid revisions in `load_dataset`.

✨ New Features

  • Added support for the Lance dataset format, including metadata/manifests and standalone .lance files (e.g., using streaming=True with datasets like "lance-format/fineweb-edu").

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Raised an early error for invalid `revision` argument passed to `load_dataset`.
  • Fixed an IndexError occurring with low but large example indices.
  • Fixed the method used to retrieve attributes from a file object.

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