The release introduces several changes to viaParquet:

• ability to define a default partition value so that you can partition your data even when the partition column is nullable
• introduced a custom builder for viaParquet in Akka / Pekko so that you can stream any document format (supported by https://github.com/apache/parquet-java, e.g. Avro) and partition it.

Moreover, to keep compatibility with Apache Spark, from now on, Parquet4s url-encodes partition values during writing and url-decodes during reading.

Notable dependency changes:

• Parquet (Java) upgraded to 1.14.1
• Pekko upgraded to 1.0.3
• Slf4j upgraded to 2.0.16
• Protobuf compiler upgraded to 0.11.17