# VARIANT Support, Interactive Parquet File TUI: Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2 Is Out

DevFeed: [VARIANT Support, Interactive Parquet File TUI: Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2 Is Out](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/variant-support-interactive-parquet-file-tui-hardwood-1-0-0-beta2-is-out-18887.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.morling.dev/blog/variant-support-interactive-parquet-file-tui-hardwood-1-0-0-beta2-is-out/>)

Published: 2026-04-29T17:45:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Gunnar Morling](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gunnar-morling.md>)

Topics: [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parquet.md>), [Text-based user interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tui.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Parser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parser.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [apache-parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-parquet.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parquet.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [screen](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/screen.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2 adds support for VARIANT columns, an interactive text-based UI for examining Parquet files, improved performance, and more efficient object-storage reads.

## Source excerpt

Table of Contents VARIANT Support Hardwood CLI TUI Unified Reader API Performance Improvements Wrapping Up I am happy to announce the release of Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2! The latest version of this new parser for Apache Parquet comes with support for VARIANT columns, an interactive text-based UI (TUI) for examining and analysing the structure of Parquet files, significantly improved performance, more efficient reading of files from object storage, and much more.