💾 Lance SDK v1.0.0, 🗓️ 1st Lance Community Sync, 🔍 Wikisearch

Lance SDK version 1.0.0 has been released, marking a significant milestone with the adoption of semantic versioning and a community-driven release process, ensuring clearer versioning and compatibility guarantees. The new release includes features such as GeoArrow-based GEO types, spatial SQL, and improved indexing techniques, alongside enhanced search capabilities demonstrated in Wikisearch, a search engine that efficiently navigates 41 million Wikipedia articles using LanceDB’s semantic and keyword search. The Lance community is engaging through events like the upcoming Community Sync and Data Day Texas talk, while contributors from organizations such as ByteDance, OpenAI, and Uber have played a pivotal role in advancing the project's capabilities. The release also involves organizational changes, such as the migration of catalog integrations to a new repository, and highlights contributions to the development of lance-graph and Lance REST namespace support within Apache Gravatino.