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DuckLake v1.0 – The Lightweight Lakehouse Format Reaches Production-Readiness

DuckDB releases DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format that centralizes metadata in a database catalog instead of scattered object storage, positioning itself as an alternative to Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg.

Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline

DuckDB team releases DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification designed to centralize metadata in a database catalog rather than scattered object storage files. The reference implementation ships as the ducklake extension in DuckDB v1.5.2 with guaranteed backward-compatibility. DuckLake positions itself as an alternative to Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg for building lakehouses on object storage.

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GAIA-v2-LILT: Multilingual Adaptation of Agent Benchmark beyond Translation

Researchers expand the GAIA agent benchmark to multilingual settings, testing whether AI agents can reason effectively across languages rather than just translating existing benchmarks.