Bodo 2026.7 Release (Date: 07/09/2026)

🎉 Highlights

This release, we are excited to significantly expand the range of queries that run in the BodoSQL C++ backend as well as add initial support for executing SQL on GPU. In addition to improvements in the C++ backend, we also add support for writing theta sketches with Bodo DataFrame’s to_iceberg() function and fix several bugs.

✨ New Features

• The DataFrame library Iceberg writer now writes theta sketches.

BodoSQL C++ backend

• Added string functions: REGEXP_SUBSTR, POSITION/CHARINDEX, RTRIMMED_LENGTH, INSERT
• Added bitwise functions: BITAND, BITOR, BITXOR, BITSHIFTLEFT, BITSHIFTRIGHT, BITNOT, GETBIT
• Added numeric bool functions: BOOLAND, BOOLOR, BOOLXOR, BOOLNOT
• Added conditional functions: EQUALNULL, NVL2, ZEROIFNULL, REGR_VALX, REGR_VALY, DECODE
• Added date/time functions: DATEDIFF, NEXT_DAY, PREVIOUS_DAY, DAYOFWEEKISO, YEAROFWEEKISO, YEARWEEK, STR_TO_DATE
• Added MOD
• Added Trigonometric functions
• Added LEAST, GREATEST, ANY and ALL
• Enabled min/max join filter pushdown to IO for Iceberg read
• Enabled converting all Iceberg filter types
• Added initial support for use of GPU in BodoSQL C++ backend

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added additional datatype validation to Series filter with a scalar value
• Fixed correctness bug in Iceberg row-level filter expressions
• Fixed a bug causing columns to have the wrong name when read from an Iceberg table and selecting a subset of columns
• Fixed a GPU bug where join probe were being processed before join build was finished
• Fixed segmentation fault in JIT compiler for matplotlib >= 3.11

⚙️ Dependency Updates

• Upgraded to RAPIDS version 26.06

Full Changelog: 2026.6...2026.7