date: 2025-07-29
title: 'Spice v1.5.1 (July 28, 2025)'
type: blog
authors: [jeadie]
tags: [release, github, data-connector, aws, embeddings, partitioning]
Announcing the release of Spice v1.5.1! 🔑
Spice v1.5.1 expands the GitHub data connector to include pull-request comments, adds a configurable rate limiting for AWS Bedrock embedding models, expands partition pruning with inequality operators, and adds client-supplied cache keys for granular caching control in the HTTP and Arrow Flight SQL APIs.
What's New in v1.5.1
GitHub Data Connector Pull Request Comments: Configure GitHub pulls datasets to include comments.
Example Spicepod.yaml:
datasets:
- from: github:github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pulls
name: spiceai.pulls
params:
github_include_comments: all # 'review', 'discussion', or 'none'. Defaults to 'none'.
github_max_comments_fetched: '25' # Defaults to 100
# ...
datasets:
- from: github:github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pulls
name: spiceai.pulls
params:
github_include_comments: all # 'review', 'discussion', or 'none'. Defaults to 'none'.
github_max_comments_fetched: '25' # Defaults to 100
# ...
For details, see the GitHub Data Connector documentation (opens in a new tab).
AWS Bedrock Embedding Models Invocation Control: Improved rate limiting control for AWS Bedrock embedding models with max_concurrent_invocations configuration.
embeddings:
- from: bedrock:cohere.embed-english-v3
name: cohere-embeddings
params:
max_concurrent_invocations: '41'
# ...
embeddings:
- from: bedrock:cohere.embed-english-v3
name: cohere-embeddings
params:
max_concurrent_invocations: '41'
# ...
For details, see the AWS Bedrock Embeddings Model Provider documentation (opens in a new tab).
Improved Query Partitioning: Expanded partition pruning support with additional inequality operators (e.g. >, >=, <, <=).
For details, see the Query Partitioning documentation (opens in a new tab).
Client-Supplied Cache Keys: Support for a new Spice-Cache-Key header/metadata-key in the HTTP and Arrow Flight SQL query APIs to for fine-grained client-side caching control.
Example HTTP API usage:
$ curl -vvS -XPOST http://localhost:8090/v1/sql \
-H"spice-cache-key: 1851400_20170216_north_america" \
-d "select * from scihub_journals_accessed
where user_id = '1851400'
and date_trunc('DAY', timestamp) = '2017-02-16'
and city = 'New York';"
$ curl -vvS -XPOST http://localhost:8090/v1/sql \
-H"spice-cache-key: 1851400_20170216_north_america" \
-d "select * from scihub_journals_accessed
where user_id = '1851400'
and date_trunc('DAY', timestamp) = '2017-02-16'
and city = 'New York';"
Example Response:
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: application/json
< x-cache: Hit from spiceai
< results-cache-status: HIT
< vary: Spice-Cache-Key
< vary: origin, access-control-request-method, access-control-request-headers
< content-length: 604
< date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:26:12 GMT
<
[{
"timestamp": "2017-02-16 09:55:06",
"doi": "10.1155/2012/650929",
"ip_identifier": 1000856,
"user_id": 1851400,
"country": "United States",
"city": "New York",
"longitude": 40.7830603,
"latitude": -73.9712488
},
...
]
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: application/json
< x-cache: Hit from spiceai
< results-cache-status: HIT
< vary: Spice-Cache-Key
< vary: origin, access-control-request-method, access-control-request-headers
< content-length: 604
< date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:26:12 GMT
<
[{
"timestamp": "2017-02-16 09:55:06",
"doi": "10.1155/2012/650929",
"ip_identifier": 1000856,
"user_id": 1851400,
"country": "United States",
"city": "New York",
"longitude": 40.7830603,
"latitude": -73.9712488
},
...
]
For details, see the Cache Control documentation (opens in a new tab).
Contributors
New Contributors
Breaking Changes
Cookbook Updates
No new recipes added in this release.
The Spice Cookbook (opens in a new tab) includes 74 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.
Upgrading
To upgrade to v1.5.1, use one of the following methods:
CLI:
Homebrew:
brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice
brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice
Docker:
Pull the spiceai/spiceai:1.5.1 image:
docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.5.1
docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.5.1
For available tags, see DockerHub (opens in a new tab).
Helm:
helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai
helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai
What's Changed
Dependencies
No major dependency updates.
Changelog
