Bodo 2026.6 Release (Date: 06/18/2026)

🎉 Highlights

This release continues expanding the BodoSQL C++ backend, significantly increasing the range of queries that run without falling back to JIT compilation. The C++ backend is now the default for BodoSQL but it will still fallback to JIT if it encounters an unsupported query.

✨ New Features

BodoSQL C++ backend

• Non-equi join support
• LEFT join and SUBSTR function support
• All TPC-H now execute on the C++ backend without fallback
• SEARCH function and new literal_agg implementation
• Reduction arguments and forced broadcast join
• SQL rules applied in groupby
• JIT fallback disabled via pytest fixture for C++ backend tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Stopped non-GPU ranks from obtaining CUDA contexts

🛠️ Infrastructure

• Added GPU platform package variant
• All GPU-marked tests now verify non-GPU ranks are not making GPU 0 allocations

⚙️ Dependency Changes

• Upgraded to PyArrow 24 (BSE-5417)

New Contributors

• @yu-liu24 made their first contribution in #1211

Full Changelog: 2026.5...2026.6