vortex-data · whelanBoyd · Dec 10, 2025 · Nov 6, 2025 · Dec 8, 2025 · Dec 9, 2025
diff --git a/bun.lock b/bun.lock
@@ -5,30 +5,30 @@
     "": {
       "name": "vortex",
       "dependencies": {
-        "@mdx-js/react": "latest",
-        "@next/mdx": "latest",
-        "@tailwindcss/typography": "latest",
-        "@vercel/analytics": "latest",
-        "next": "latest",
-        "next-plausible": "latest",
-        "ogl": "latest",
-        "prettier": "latest",
-        "react": "latest",
-        "react-dom": "latest",
-        "react-markdown": "latest",
-        "use-scramble": "latest",
-        "velite": "latest",
+        "@mdx-js/react": "^3.1.1",
+        "@next/mdx": "^16.0.7",
+        "@tailwindcss/typography": "^0.5.19",
+        "@vercel/analytics": "^1.6.1",
+        "next": "16.0.7",
+        "next-plausible": "^3.12.5",
+        "ogl": "^1.0.11",
+        "prettier": "^3.7.4",
+        "react": "^19.2.1",
+        "react-dom": "^19.2.1",
+        "react-markdown": "^10.1.0",
+        "use-scramble": "^2.2.15",
+        "velite": "^0.3.1",
       },
       "devDependencies": {
-        "@eslint/eslintrc": "latest",
-        "@tailwindcss/postcss": "latest",
-        "@types/node": "latest",
-        "@types/react": "latest",
-        "@types/react-dom": "latest",
-        "eslint": "latest",
-        "eslint-config-next": "latest",
-        "tailwindcss": "latest",
-        "typescript": "latest",
+        "@eslint/eslintrc": "^3.3.3",
+        "@tailwindcss/postcss": "^4.1.17",
+        "@types/node": "^24.10.1",
+        "@types/react": "^19.2.7",
+        "@types/react-dom": "^19.2.3",
+        "eslint": "^9.39.1",
+        "eslint-config-next": "16.0.7",
+        "tailwindcss": "^4.1.17",
+        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
       },
     },
   },

diff --git a/src/components/hero/index.tsx b/src/components/hero/index.tsx
@@ -15,8 +15,15 @@ import {
 import { useEffect, useRef } from "react";
 import { Overlay } from "../overlay";
 
-const DESKTOP_HEIGHT = 312;
-const MOBILE_HEIGHT = 214;
+// Calculated heights: header + footer including all margins
+// Header: 108px (h-[108px]) + 40px (m-10 top) + 24px (mb-6) = 172px
+// Footer: 16px (mt-4) + 40px (m-10 bottom) + 84px (md:h-[84px]) + 36px (pt-4 + content) = 176px
+// Total: 172px + 176px = 348px
+const DESKTOP_HEIGHT = 348;
+// Header: 72px (h-[72px]) + 16px (m-4 top) + 8px (mb-2) = 96px
+// Footer: 8px (mt-2) + 16px (m-4 bottom) + 52px (py-4 + content) + 36px (pt-4 + content) = 112px
+// Total: 96px + 112px = 208px
+const MOBILE_HEIGHT = 200;
 
 const DESKTOP_CAMERA_POSITION = new Vec3(5, -5, 10);
 const MOBILE_CAMERA_POSITION = new Vec3(7, -7, 12);
@@ -288,7 +295,7 @@ void main() {
   }, []);
 
   return (
-    <div className="w-full overflow-clip h-[calc(100dvh-214px)] md:h-[calc(100dvh-312px)]">
+    <div className="w-full overflow-clip h-[calc(100dvh-208px)] md:h-[calc(100dvh-354px)]">
       <div
         ref={containerRef}
         className="w-[calc(100%-2rem)] md:w-[calc(100%-5rem)] mx-4 md:mx-10 h-full overflow-clip"

diff --git a/src/components/layout/footer.tsx b/src/components/layout/footer.tsx
@@ -1,50 +1,44 @@
-import SpiralLogo from "@/assets/spiral.svg";
 import LFLogo from "@/assets/lf_white.svg";
+import SpiralLogo from "@/assets/spiral.svg";
 import Image from "next/image";
 import NextLink from "next/link";
 import { Link } from "../link";
+
 export const Footer = () => {
   return (
-    <div className="flex flex-col m-4 mt-2 md:mt-4 md:m-10">
+    <div className="flex flex-col mx-4 mt-2 md:mt-4 md:mx-10">
       <div className="flex justify-center items-center gap-16 dashed-top dashed-bottom after:hidden md:after:block md:h-[84px]">
         <div className="flex items-center h-full lg:px-10">
           <div className="flex flex-col md:flex-row items-center gap-2 py-4 md:py-0">
-            <span className="text-white font-mono text-sm flex gap-3 items-center">
-              <NextLink
-                href="https://spiraldb.com"
-                target="_blank"
-                className="uppercase text-white font-mono text-sm"
-              >
-                <Image
-                  src={SpiralLogo}
-                  alt="Spiral Logo"
-                  width={15}
-                  height={18}
-                />
-              </NextLink>
-              <span>
-                Donated by{" "}
-                <Link href="https://spiraldb.com" target="_blank">
-                  Spiral
-                </Link>
-                .
-              </span>
+            <span className="text-white font-mono text-sm flex items-center gap-1">
+              Copyright © Vortex a Series of{" "}
+              <Link href="https://lfprojects.org" target="_blank">
+                LF Projects, LLC.
+              </Link>
             </span>
           </div>
         </div>
         <div className="flex items-center h-full lg:px-10 py-4 pb-4 md:py-0">
           <span className="text-sm font-mono text-white flex items-center gap-2">
-            Incubating @ <Image src={LFLogo} alt="Linux Foundation logo" height={10} className="inline" />
+            Incubating @{" "}
+            <Image
+              src={LFLogo}
+              alt="Linux Foundation logo"
+              height={10}
+              className="inline"
+            />
           </span>
         </div>
       </div>
-      <div className="text-center mt-4">
-        <span className="text-xs font-mono text-gray-500">
-          Copyright © Vortex a Series of{" "}
-          <Link href="https://lfprojects.org" target="_blank">
-            LF Projects, LLC
+      <div className="text-center py-8">
+        <span className="text-xs font-mono text-gray-500 flex items-center justify-center gap-2">
+          <NextLink href="https://spiraldb.com" target="_blank">
+            <Image src={SpiralLogo} alt="Spiral Logo" width={15} height={18} />
+          </NextLink>
+          Donated by{" "}
+          <Link href="https://spiraldb.com" target="_blank">
+            Spiral.
           </Link>
-          .
         </span>
       </div>
     </div>

diff --git a/src/content/blog/october-2025.mdx b/src/content/blog/october-2025.mdx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+title: "October Bulletin"
+date: "2025-11-6"
+authors: ["Community Team"]
+excerpt: "Overview of all work happening in Vortex"
+published: true
+---
+
+In October, a lot of focus was on revamping Array evaluation to be fully lazy, by converting their execution
+to an Operator model that evaluates into Vectors (fully decompressed, zero-copy to Arrow representation).
+This work enables many more optimizations, and also provides unified abstractions for evaluating on
+different processor types (CPUs & GPUs).
+
+In parallel, Vortex added experimental support for a GPU Scan, with fused CUDA kernels for decompressing Vortex data
+directly on-device.
+
+For an in-depth view of this work, see the [recent talk on Vortex](https://db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futuredata-vortex/)
+as part of CMU's Future Data Seminar.
+
+## Core
+
+1. Children of `ZonedLayoutReader` are evaluated lazily. [#5007](https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/5007)
+2. Introduced our own bit-buffer type, allowing for in-place mutation [#4940](https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/4940)
+3. Introduced experimental GPU Scan [#5012](https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/pull/5012)
+
+## Integrations
+
+### DFT
+
+You can now try Vortex as part of [dft](https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-dft), a batteries-included suite of data tools based on Apache DataFusion.
+
+### DataFusion
+
+1. Added support for pushing down filters onto fields of struct columns. #5024
+
+### DuckDB
+
+As of DuckDB 1.4.2, Vortex is included as a core extension in DuckDB. See their [docs](https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/vortex) for more details.
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+We want to thank to anyone who has tried Vortex, provided feedback, asked question and filed issues.
+
+Special thanks go for all the contributors who took the time and care to contribute to Vortex this month (in descending count of commits):
+
+```text
+    41  Connor Tsui
+    38  Joe Isaacs
+    24  Nicholas Gates
+    22  Robert Kruszewski
+    22  Adam Gutglick
+    10  Andrew Duffy
+    8   Dan King
+    8   Alexander Droste
+    7   Onur Satici
+    5   Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
+    2   Dmitrii Blaginin
+    1   Maksim Dergousov
+```
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "target": "ES2017",
-    "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
+    "lib": [
+      "dom",
+      "dom.iterable",
+      "esnext"
+    ],
     "allowJs": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "strict": true,
@@ -11,18 +15,30 @@
     "moduleResolution": "bundler",
     "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "isolatedModules": true,
-    "jsx": "preserve",
+    "jsx": "react-jsx",
     "incremental": true,
     "plugins": [
       {
         "name": "next"
       }
     ],
     "paths": {
-      "@/*": ["./src/*"],
-      "#site/content": ["./.velite"]
+      "@/*": [
+        "./src/*"
+      ],
+      "#site/content": [
+        "./.velite"
+      ]
     }
   },
-  "include": ["next-env.d.ts", "**/*.ts", "**/*.tsx", ".next/types/**/*.ts"],
-  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
+  "include": [
+    "next-env.d.ts",
+    "**/*.ts",
+    "**/*.tsx",
+    ".next/types/**/*.ts",
+    ".next/dev/types/**/*.ts"
+  ],
+  "exclude": [
+    "node_modules"
+  ]
 }