Apache Hudi 1.2: Expanding the Open Lakehouse for AI and Multimodal Data

The Apache Hudi community is excited to announce the release of Apache Hudi 1.2, a major milestone that makes the open lakehouse ready for the next generation of data and AI. By introducing first-class support for semi-structured data, vectors, and binary objects, Hudi 1.2 unifies multimodal data for Analytics and AI-native applications into a single transactional lakehouse table, eliminating the need to duplicate data across multiple storage silos.