# DuckDB v0.2.8 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v0.2.8
- **Released:** Aug 02, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v0.2.8/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v0.2.8. Source highlight: This preview release of DuckDB is named "Ceruttii" after a long-extinct relative of the present-day Harleqin Duck (Histrionicus Ceruttii).

## New Features
- #1905: Add `PARQUET_METADATA` and `PARQUET_SCHEMA` functions
- #2050: CSV Reader/Casting Framework Refactor & add support for `TRY_CAST`
- #1950: Add Constant Segment Compression to Storage
- #1957: Add pipe/stream file system

## Improvements
- #2059, #1995, #2020 & #1960: Window `RANGE` framing, `NTH_VALUE` and other improvements
- Many Arrow integration improvements
- Many ODBC driver improvements