Improvements:

• partitions and files are now sorted alphanumerically while reading a directory
• loosens schema validation when reading files without projections - when a field of the case class is optional (nullable or Option) and the corresponding column is missing in the source file then Parquet4s no longer throws an exception but sets the field as empty (null or None)

Minor upgrades:

• cats-effect to 3.6.2
• pekko-streams to 1.1.4
• scalapb compiler to 0.11.19

Behind the scenes:

• releasing to the new Sonatype Central using native sbt