🗺️ There is now an map view!
🎬 Native viewer now supports H.264 video if ffmpeg is installed.
📽️ Videos now load a lot faster use less RAM.
📂 Improvements to the existing Open (Viewer) & log_file (SDK) workflows, and addition of a new Import workflow.
- Blueprints can now easily be re-used across different applications, recordings and SDKs
- The new Import feature allows you to drag-and-drop any data into an existing recording, directly in the viewer.
☰ Dataframe queries are now streamed, reducing memory usage.
💊 Add capsule archetype.
📚 Doc improvements
- Arrow schemas are now documented for all types.
- Better structure to the how to section and a few more pages

🐍 Python 3.8 is being deprecated
🔌 connect & serve got deprecated in favor of connect_tcp & serve_web
🎨 In Python, lists of numbers without type information are now assumed to be packed integer color representations, unless the length is exactly 3 or 4 🧳 Migration guide: http://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-20

Support H.264 video on native via user installed ffmpeg executable #7962
Make mp4 parsing a lot faster & tremendously lower memory overhead #7860
Fix playback of HDR AV1 videos in native viewer #7978
Show all samples/frames in a video in a nice table #8102
Calculate and show video frame number #8112
Expose basic information about group of pictures in video data in the selection panel #8043
Fix some videos having offsetted (incorrect) timestamps #8029
Fix video backward seeking / stepping back sometimes getting stuck (in the presence of b-frames) #8053
Make sure videos all end up in different space views #8085
Fix video on web sometimes not showing last few frames for some videos #8117
Fix issues with seeking in some H.264 videos on native & web #8111
Fix view creation heuristics for videos #7869
Improve video doc page #8007
Update re_mp4 to fix integer overflow bug #8096

C++: Improve error message when finding X11 macro Unsorted #7855
Forward CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE to arrow build for sdk cross-compilation #7866 (thanks @SunDoge!)
Update the python package to support python 3.13, update C++ arrow to 18.0.0 #7930

Allow passing seconds/nanoseconds to VideoFrameReference archetype #7833
Officially deprecate support for python 3.8 #7933
Update the python package to support python 3.13, update C++ arrow to 18.0.0 #7930
Remove the upper bound constraint on python version #7949
Enable dataframe streaming across Python FFI #7935
Fix python SDK's shutdown unsafely dropping cross-FFI resources #8038
Improve edge-cases and warn on ambiguity for Rgba32 datatype #8054
Check rerun notebook version on first import #8030

Allow logging individual components directly (Impl AsComponents for all ObjectKind::Component) #7756 (thanks @oxkitsune!)
re_query::Caches -> re_query::QueryCache #7915

A Rerun Viewer session now matches 1:1 to a Rerun TCP server #6951 (thanks @petertheprocess!)
Implement support for in-place drag-n-drop #7880
Implement Menu > Import and associated command #7882
Expose additional information about decoded frames in the viewer #7932
Update crates, including rfd for better file dialogs #7953
Line strips are no longer a disconnected series of quads #8065
Show data density graph in collapsed time panel #8137
Show the root entity "/" in the streams panel #8142

Clarify viewport documentation and reference the type list for view classes #7826
Finish dataframe reference page #7865
Docs: static data #7856
Docs: concepts > recordings #7896
Docs: "How-to: reuse blueprints across languages" #7886
Docs: application model part 1: native workflows #7905
Document arrow datatypes #7986