DuckDB 0.2.8 release notes

This preview release of DuckDB is named "Ceruttii" after a long-extinct relative of the present-day Harleqin Duck (Histrionicus Ceruttii). Binary builds are listed below. Feedback is very welcome.

Note: Again, this release introduces a backwards-incompatible change to the on-disk storage format. We suggest you use the EXPORT DATABASE command with the old version followed by IMPORT DATABASE with the new version to migrate your data. See the documentation for details.

SQL

#2064: RANGE/GENERATE_SERIES for timestamp + interval
#1905: Add PARQUET_METADATA and PARQUET_SCHEMA functions
#2059, #1995, #2020 & #1960: Window RANGE framing, NTH_VALUE and other improvements

APIs

Many Arrow integration improvements
Many ODBC driver improvements
#1815: Initial version: SQLite UDF API
#2001: Support DBConfig in C API

Engine

#1975, #1876 & #2009: Unified row layout for sorting, aggregate & joins
#1930 & #1904: List Storage
#2050: CSV Reader/Casting Framework Refactor & add support for TRY_CAST
#1950: Add Constant Segment Compression to Storage
#1957: Add pipe/stream file system