DuckDB Lab's roadmap for the next year (2025/2026) has been updated -https://duckdb.org/roadmap.html

Here are some of the highlights with my commentary -

🧩 Extensions

◆ Updated C API + C extension API - this means extensions will have a stable API build against, and should eliminate a lot compiler/CI time and make extension binaries much smaller. 🦀 Rust support for extensions - I’m going to be excited to try this out.

💾 Lakehouse

◆ Better Iceberg + Delta integration 🦆 DuckLake continues to grow — with cross-format interoperability

📊 SQL & Performance

🔍 MATCH RECOGNIZE for pattern matching 🌐 New GEOMETRY type

⚡ Async I/O, Parallel Python UDFs, and building Windows ARM64 extensions could mean bring some huge changes and benefits in the next year.

I’m already looking forward to 1.5.0.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.