What's Changed

• Expose read and write options in public API by @george-zubrienko in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/581
• [proof] make sure lock at least expires once by @houqp in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/591
• Python API - delta.appendOnly enforcement by @WarSame in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/590
• Avoid building pandas and numpy from source by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/595
• Introduce require_files for tracking the add files in table state by @mosyp in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/594
• Make sure pandas is optional by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/597
• High level Delta Operations with Datafusion by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/584
• Re-enable datafusion tests and improve supported types. by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/601
• default to root for empty path in azure store by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/603
• publish dynamodb_lock to crates.io by @houqp in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/605
• Configure Azure storage using a map (#555) by @Blajda in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/598
• Azure options by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/606
• Update rusoto dependencies to 0.48 by @ahmedriza in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/611
• upgrade to datafusion 8 by @houqp in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/612
• fix: cap sphinx version to avoid bug in 5.0 by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/615
• Provide Python aarch64 wheels for Linux. by @fvaleye in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/613
• Refactoring of the Python release Github action by @fvaleye in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/616
• fix: Use relative paths for add paths by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/618
• Bin packing optimization by @Blajda in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/607
• feat: impl rename_noreplace with std::fs::hard_link by default by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/621
• feat(python): validate schema in write_deltalake by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/624
• Fix the AWS_REGION environment variable configuration in S3 backend by @fvaleye in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/633
• Refactor azure storage with crate updates by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/644
• Defer creation of storage backend in DeltaTableBuilder by @Blajda in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/639
• fix: Add correct size and null paritition values to add actions by @wjones127 in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/625
• Bump flatbuffers from 0.8.4 to 2.1.2 in /aws/delta-checkpoint by @dependabot in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/626
• Bump hyper from 0.14.9 to 0.14.19 in /aws/delta-checkpoint by @dependabot in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/628
• Bump regex from 1.5.4 to 1.5.5 in /aws/delta-checkpoint by @dependabot in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/629
• Bump regex from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6 in /delta-inspect by @dependabot in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/630
• Bump thread_local from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 in /aws/delta-checkpoint by @dependabot in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/646
• fix: Prevent warning spam when reading tables generated by delta 1.2.1 by @Tom-Newton in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/651
• refactor: move version field to DeltaTableState by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/649
• feat: add enforce_retention_duration param to vacuum method by @houqp in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/648
• fix: read vacuumed delta log without _last_checkpoint by @roeap in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/643
• feat: Upgrade to arrow/parquet 15 and datafusion 9 by @xianwill in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/652
• Release of the Python binding version 0.5.8 by @fvaleye in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/640

New Contributors

• @george-zubrienko made their first contribution in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/581
• @WarSame made their first contribution in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/590
• @dependabot made their first contribution in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/626
• @Tom-Newton made their first contribution in https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/pull/651

Full Changelog: https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/compare/python-v0.5.7...python-v0.5.8