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+date: 2025-02-17
+title: 'Spice v1.0.4 (Feb 17, 2025)'
+type: blog
+authors: [jeadie]
+tags: [release, embedding, vector-search, delta-lake, cli]
+---
+
+Announcing the release of Spice v1.0.4 🏎️
+
+Spice v1.0.4 improves partition pruning for Delta Lake tables, significantly increasing scan efficiency and reducing overhead. xAI tool calling is more robust and the `spice trace` CLI command now provides expanded, detailed output for deeper analysis. Additionally, a bug has been fixed to correctly apply column name case-sensitivity in refresh SQL, indexes, and primary keys.
+
+## Highlights in v1.0.4
+
+- **Improved Append-Based Refresh** When using an append-based acceleration where the `time_column` format differs from the physical partition, two new dataset configuration options, `time_partition_column` and `time_partition_format` can be configured to improve partition pruning and exclude irrelevant partitions during the refreshes.
+
+For example, when the `time_column` format is `timestamp` and the physical data partition is `date` such as below:
+
+```shell
+my_delta_table/
+├── _delta_log/
+├── date_col=2023-12-31/
+├── date_col=2024-02-04/
+├── date_col=2025-01-01/
+└── date_col=2030-06-15/
+```
+
+Partition pruning can be optimized using the configuration:
+
+```yaml
+datasets:
+  - from: delta_lake://my_delta_table
+    name: my_delta_table
+    time_column: created_at # A fine-grained timestamp
+    time_format: timestamp
+    time_partition_column: date_col # Data is physically partitioned by `date_col`
+    time_partition_format: date
+sgrebnov marked this conversation as resolved.
+```
+
+- **Expanded `spice trace` output**: The `spice trace` CLI command now includes additional details, such as task status, and optional flags `--include-input` and `--include-output` for detailed tracing.
+
+Example `spice trace` output:
+
+```console
+TREE                   STATUS DURATION   TASK
+a97f52ccd7687e64       ✅       673.14ms ai_chat
+  ├── 4eebde7b04321803 ✅         0.04ms tool_use::list_datasets
+  └── 4c9049e1bf1c3500 ✅       671.91ms ai_completion
+```
+
+Example `spice trace --include-input --include-output` output:
+
+```console
+TREE                   STATUS DURATION   TASK                    OUTPUT
+a97f52ccd7687e64       ✅       673.14ms ai_chat                 The capital of New York is Albany.
+  ├── 4eebde7b04321803 ✅         0.04ms tool_use::list_datasets []
+  └── 4c9049e1bf1c3500 ✅       671.91ms ai_completion           [{"content":"The capital of New York is Albany.","refusal":null,"tool_calls":null,"role":"assistant","function_call":null,"audio":null}]
+```
+
+## Contributors
+
+- @Jeadie
+- @peasee
+- @phillipleblanc
+- @Sevenannn
+- @sgrebnov
+- @lukekim
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+No breaking changes.
+
+## Cookbook Updates
+
+No new recipes.
+
+## Upgrading
+
+To upgrade to v1.0.4, use one of the following methods:
+
+**CLI**:
+
+```console
+spice upgrade
+```
+
+**Homebrew**:
+
+```console
+brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice
+```
+
+**Docker**:
+
+Pull the spiceai/spiceai:1.0.4 image:
+
+```console
+docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.0.4
+```
+
+For available tags, see [DockerHub](https://hub.docker.com/r/spiceai/spiceai/tags).
+
+**Helm**:
+
+```console
+helm repo update
+helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai
+```
+
+## What's Changed
+
+### Dependencies
+
+No major dependency changes.
+
+### Changelog
+
+```text
+- Do not return underlying content of chunked embedding column by default during tool_use::document_similarity by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4802
+- Fix Snowflake Case-Sensitive Identifiers support by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4813
+- Prepare for 1.0.4 by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4801
+- Add support for a time_partition_column by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4784
+- Prevent the automatic normalization of refresh_sql columns to lowercase by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4787
+- Implement partition pruning for Delta Lake tables by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4783
+- Fix constraint verification for columns with uppercase letters by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4785
+- Add truncate command for spice trace by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4771
+- Implement Cache-Control: no-cache to bypass results cache by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4763
+- Prompt user to download runtime when running spice sql by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4747
+- Add vector search tracing by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4757
+- Update spice trace output format by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4750
+- Fix tool call arguments in Grok messages by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/4741
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4
+```