Release 1.5.0

See https://docs.lamin.ai/changelog/2025#db-1-5-0-bionty-1-3-2

What's Changed

• ✨ Refresh db token on expiration by @Koncopd in #2674
• ✏️ Improve installation hint for zarr by @namsaraeva in #2681
• ✅ Decrypt token inside RLS (adapt tests) by @Koncopd in #2680
• 🐛 Do not delete version family if user wants to retain store by passing storage=False to artifact.delete() by @falexwolf in #2683
• ✨ Enable executing notebooks via jupyter nbconvert --execute by @falexwolf in #2684
• 🐛 Delete version family if user wants to retain store by passing storage=False to artifact.delete(), but retain warning by @falexwolf in #2687
• ✨ Enable curating the index of a dataframe by @falexwolf in #2688
• ✅ Temp table based authentication (adapt tests) by @Koncopd in #2682
• 🐛 Fix .using with fine-grained access instances and permissions test by @Koncopd in #2697
• ⬆️ Fix downloading old ensembl genes by @sunnyosun in #2698
• ♻️ Allow passing key to save_vitessce_config() by @namsaraeva in #2694
• ✨ Can save csv artifacts in DataFrameCurator by @sunnyosun in #2696
• 🥅 Do not raise exceptions on problems with copy_or_move_to_cache within Artifact.save by @Koncopd in #2699
• 🐛 Fix ordered_set in curators by @sunnyosun in #2700
• ✏️ Fix typo in bio-registry guide by @sunnyosun in #2703
• ♻️ Avoid non-lazy loads of settings on import of lamindb.models by @Koncopd in #2704
• ♻️ Refactor annotating with inferred feature sets by @falexwolf in #2690
• ♻️ Execute curator examples and also show them in the curation guide by @falexwolf in #2706
• ♻️ Separate legacy curators from new curators by @falexwolf in #2707
• ♻️ Separate CatManager usage for .cat attribute and as legacy interface by @falexwolf in #2708
• 🚸 Restore validation error messages, add their fine-grained testing, and prepare var refactor in curators by @falexwolf in #2709
• ♻️ AnnData: enable explicit transposition in var schema definition by @falexwolf in #2710
• 🥅 Catch and clarify RLS error on Record.save() by @Koncopd in #2715
• 🚸 Do not annotate with more than n_max_records = 1000 by @falexwolf in #2713
• ♻️ Clearer naming conventions in the internal curator codebase by @falexwolf in #2717
• 📝 Prettify API reference docs, document base API by @falexwolf in #2719
• ♻️ Eliminate monkey patching of django.db.models.QuerySet and django.db.models.Manager by @Koncopd in #2637
• 🔊 Fix modules warning in .using by @Koncopd in #2722
• 🚸 Enable passing the 12-char stem uid to ln.track(), detect renames of notebooks, better experience with nbconvert execution by @falexwolf in #2718
• ✨ Enable to validate against nested dicts in spatialdata by @falexwolf in #2723
• 🚸 Fully functional ULabel subtype validation, better syntax for it by @falexwolf in #2726
• ⬆️ Update bionty by @sunnyosun in #2728
• ⬆️ Upgrade lamindb-setup by @fredericenard in #2729
• ♻️ Add using as an arg to the Schema constructor by @falexwolf in #2705
• 🚚 Rename components keyword argument of Schema() to slots by @falexwolf in #2727
• 🚸 Prettier Schema.describe() by @sunnyosun in #2731
• 🎨 Allow pass _skip_validation to ULabel by @sunnyosun in #2732
• 🚸 Handle schema updates decently by @falexwolf in #2733
• 🚸 Introduce a submodule for example schemas, further consolidate curation and schema code examples, refactor schema hashing, expand schema tests, reduce schema uid length from 20 to 16 by @falexwolf in #2737
• ✨ Allow to use polars in Artifact.open() and Collection.open() by @Koncopd in #2730
• ✨ Add ArtifactQuerySet with .load() and .open() and .mapped() by @Koncopd in #2743
• 🚸 For artifacts, improve (1) bulk annotation with features + (2) queries by features by @falexwolf in #2740
• 🐛 Fix curating DataFrame index & 🚸 Automatically pass validation of ensembl gene IDs & ✨ add curator repr by @Zethson in #2742
• 🎨 Allow pass _aux to ULabel by @sunnyosun in #2744
• ♻️ Support dictionary-type features in bulk queries, handle clean up of dictionary-type feature values by @falexwolf in #2745

New Contributors

• @namsaraeva made their first contribution in #2681

Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.5.0