# DuckDB v0.7.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v0.7.0
- **Released:** Feb 13, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v0.7.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v0.7.0. Source highlight: This preview release of DuckDB is named "Labradorius" after the Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) which was native to North America and went extinct in 1878 despite its reportedly bad taste.

## New Features
- Enum type added to the types metadata table
- Add starts_with function and operator
- Feature: Allow binary-formatted strings to be cast to integers
- Add support for LATERAL joins
- [Julia] Add support for consuming a UNION vector into a DataFrame
- Shell: add individual SQL queries to the history, instead of individual lines

## Improvements
- Improve http retry
- Misc union-type improvements
- Improve nodejs README
- Improve suggestions when LOAD of an extension fails
- Imdb benchmark validation and benchmark improvements
- read_csv_auto column_types improvements

## Bug Fixes
- Fix binder error and produce more informative error message.
- Fix so Left inner join doesn't re-optimize nodes
- Fix broken CI because of RESET statement
- Don't automatically set the bug label on issues
- Issue 5630 fix.
- Attempt to fix random NodeJS CI failure