Release Notes v2022.06.13

Release Notes 2022-06-13

Major updates:

• Issues #1505 and #1506 - Fix Series loss of support for Index and multi-index
• Issue #1491 - Adds uint64 support to search_intervals()
• Issue #1077 - Updates dtypes to better support scalars (8, 16, and 32 bit)
• Issue #612 - Changes minimum supported python version to Python 3.8
• Issue #1470 - Improves ak.Index (adds ak.Index.values, improves argument validation, etc)
• Issue #1448 - Cleans up util.py (moves most_common() into GroupBy and deprecates functionality duplicated elsewhere in arkouda)

Minor fixes:

• Issue #1486 - Adds Flake8 to CI
• Issues #1480, #1481, and #1479 - Fix deprecation and Pandas cast warnings
• Issues #1499, #1371 and PR #1504 - Update requirements for Pandas and mypy, and swap channel order in conda yaml files
• PR #1490 - Updates additional files to avoid using SysCTypes, CPtr
• PR #1498 - Start timing array transfer again

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Auto-generated release notes

• Closes #1480 & #1481 - Deprecation Warnings by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1483
• Closes #612 - Upgrade to Python 3.8 by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1487
• Closes #1470 - ak.Index Updates by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1482
• Closes #1486 - Add Flake8 to CI by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1488
• Closes #1448 - util.py cleanup by @joshmarshall1 in #1484
• Closes #1479 - Pandas Cast Warning by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1485
• Start timing array transfer again by @bmcdonald3 in #1498
• Update additional files to avoid using SysCTypes, CPtr by @bradcray in #1490
• Closes #1371 - Setting mypy back to >=0.931 by @joshmarshall1 in #1489
• fix channel order in conda yml file by @mhmerrill in #1504
• Closes #1505 & #1506 by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1508
• Closes #1491 - search_intervals() not working for uint64 by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1494
• Closes #1499 - Update Requirements for Pandas by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1500
• 1077 update dtypes to better support scalars by @hokiegeek2 in #1492

Full Changelog: v2022.06.06...v2022.06.13