Release Notes v2023.01.11

Major updates:

• Issues #1970, #1989, #1995, #2000, #2009, #2013, #2033, and #2041 - Add bigint pdarrays with binary operations and support for sort, in1d, search_intervals, groupby, and dataframe
• Issue #1876 - 2.5x speed up of multi-column write for parquet
• Issue #2019 - Fixes bug preventing reading strings formatted by older versions of Arkouda
• Issues #1297 and #1983 - Change ak.array to prefer uint over float when containing values >2**63
• Issue #2005 - Fixes parquet read error for columns containing NANs
• Issues #1991, #2021, and #2024 - Add additional parquet compression support
• Issues #1962 and #2038 - Add parameters to ak.get_mem_* functions and add percentage of memory used to overmemlimit logs
• Issues #1965, #1979, #1981, #1986, #1996, and #2026 - Rework and update online documentation
• PR #1966 - Recommends Chapel 1.29.0 and updates CI to use it
• Issue #1850 - Removes legacy HDF5 multi-dim

Minor fixes:

• Issues #1949, #1951, #2054, and PR #2016 - Add support for conversions between IDNA and non-UTF-8 encodings
• Issue #2011 - Updates version requirement for h5py and numpy
• Issue #1932 - Fixes bug with binopvv between uint and bool
• Issue #1963 - Fixes message arg failure when List contains Strings and pdarray
• Issue #1972 - Switches to allclose for float comparison in operator test

Auto-generated release notes

• Closes #1963 - Message Arg failure when List contains Strings and pdarray by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1964
• Closes #1951 - Remove idnaEncodeDecode by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1959
• Recommend Chapel 1.29.0 and use it for CI testing by @ronawho in #1966
• Closes #1972: Switch to allclose for float comparison in operator test by @bmcdonald3 in #1973
• Closes #1979 - Update Sphinx Theme by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1980
• Closes #1876 - Multi-Column Write Parquet by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1969
• Closes #1965 - Update pydoc/examples.rst by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1976
• Closes #1850 - Legacy HDF5 Removal by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1978
• Closes #1297 and #1983: Change ak.array to prefer uint over float when >2**63 by @pierce314159 in #1984
• Closes #1970: Basic bigint pdarray by @pierce314159 in #1971
• Closes #1932: binopvv support for uint and bool types by @jaketrookman in #1982
• Closes #1981 - Sphinx Utilization Updates by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1985
• Closes #1989: bigint indexing by @pierce314159 in #1990
• Closes #1996 - Remove Release from header by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1997
• Closes #1962: Update ak.get_mem_* methods by @pierce314159 in #1992
• Closes #1925 - Remove Deprecated IO Functions by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1993
• Closes #1949: Allow conversions with IDNA and non-UTF-8 encodings by @bmcdonald3 in #1950
• Closes #2000: bigint opequals by @pierce314159 in #2002
• Closes #1995: bigint binops by @pierce314159 in #1999
• Closes #1991 - Additional Compression Support for Parquet by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2004
• Skip idna utf-16 test to work around bug by @bmcdonald3 in #2016
• Closes #2013: Create local copies of block size for bigint modulus by @bmcdonald3 in #2018
• Closes #2011 - Updating version requirement for h5py and numpy by @joshmarshall1 in #2014
• Closes #2021 - Compression Fixes for Benchmarks by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2022
• Closes #2019 - Read strings formatted for older versions of Arkouda by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2020
• Closes #2024: Add flags to Arrow install command for new compressions by @bmcdonald3 in #2025
• Closes #2005 - Parquet Read Error by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2012
• Closes #2010 - overflow notification for GroupBy Aggregations by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2028
• Closes #2009: Add bigint support for sort, in1d, search_intervals, and groupby by @pierce314159 in #2027
• Closes #2029 - Undo IO Function Deprecation by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2035
• Closes #2033: Initial bigint.to_ndarray/list by @pierce314159 in #2036
• Closes #2026: Updating the Mac install doc to add brew install gmp by @jaketrookman in #2037
• Closes #2038: Add percentage used to overmemlimit by @pierce314159 in #2039
• Closes #2041: bigint compatibility for dataframe by @pierce314159 in #2043
• Closes #2054: Fix iconv encoding for multi-byte characters and reenable tests by @bmcdonald3 in #2055
• Closes #1986 - File I/O Documentation Updates by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2045

Full Changelog: v2022.12.09...v2023.01.11