> ## Documentation Index
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# 0.24.0

## New Features 🎉

* Add support for indexing the Postgres `ltree` column type.

## Stability Improvements 💪

* Significantly improved test coverage via concurrent property testing.
* `pg_search` will now write WAL entries for its buffers, allowing for crash recovery.
* Many fixes for planning of joins to allow the custom scan to trigger in more cases.
* Significant test coverage improvements for joins.
* Fix for `ORDER BY` on duplicated column names atop joins.
* Fix for race condition in detoasting during VACUUM.
* Added an error when mixing incompatible proximity operators.
* Remove minimum CPU requirements, as they did not show a performance benefit.

## Performance Improvements 🚀

* Improved the performance of large term set queries, and some types of hash join.
* Introduce a first version of a MPP plan partitioning mode, to improve parallelism and remove redundant work during joins.
* Improved performance of Top-K queries on `pdb.score`.

## New Contributors 👋

* Daniel Oliveira
* Joshua Lockerman
* Jun Jie
* Nihal Pandey
* Ritik Kumar
* S Bala Vignesh
* Saad Tajwar
* Yerkebulan Tulibergenov

The full changelog is available [on the GitHub Release](https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/releases/tag/v0.24.0).