Release Notes v2023.10.06

Bug Fixes

• Issue #2802 - Fixes concatenate and arange mishandling max_bits
• Issues #2472, #2800 - Fix bug in bigint indexing with max_bits set
• Issues #2675, #2773 - Fix argsort and coargsort on boolean arrays

Major Updates

• Issues #2724, #2730 - Add HDF5 support for Index and MultiIndex
• Issues #2679, #2767, #2774, #2783, #2798 - Resolve chpl 1.32 deprecation warnings
• Issue #2805 - Upgrades arrow to 11.0.0
• Issues #2759, #2757, #2762, #2764, #2790, #2794 - Work to improve pdarray creation performance and out of memory error handling
• Issue #2405 - Adds server <-> server transfers of pdarrays
• Issue #2716 - Adds dataframe merge functionality
• Issue #2712 - Adds stridable slicing to Strings
• Issue #2744 - Implements skew and hist_all

Minor Updates

• Issue #2778 - Adds convert_categoricals flag to dataframe.to_parquet
• Issue #2771 - Adds pda.value_counts
• Issue #2521 - Adds uint support to histogram
• Issue #2474 - Updates ConcatenateMsg to use aggregation for bigint

Auto-Generated Release Notes

• Closes #2757: Add overload of makeDistArray that takes an array by @bmcdonald3 in #2758
• Closes #2759: Fix tryCreateArray call in 1.32 compat module by @bmcdonald3 in #2760
• Closes #2762: Fix last outstanding error regarding OOM handling compat modules by @bmcdonald3 in #2763
• Closes #2675: Argsort for bool arrays by @pierce314159 in #2761
• Closes #2405: Add server <-> server transfers of pdarrays by @bmcdonald3 in #2406
• Closes #2744 - Implement skew and hist_all by @egelberg in #2756
• Closes #2764: Add throws to new makeDistArray compat function by @bmcdonald3 in #2765
• Closes #2767: Resolve deprecation warnings introduced by array transfer PR by @bmcdonald3 in #2766
• Closes #2679: Convert check for re2 in the compiler from a .compile() method to new regex() by @bradcray in #2777
• Closes #2712: Adds stridable slicing to Strings by @pierce314159 in #2770
• Closes #2771: Add pda.value_counts by @pierce314159 in #2772
• Fixes #2773: Fixes bug in multi-locale coargsort with bool arrays by @pierce314159 in #2776
• Closes #2768: Verify that all test files pass flake8 by @jaketrookman in #2769
• Closes #2778: Add convert_categoricals flag to dataframe.to_parquet by @pierce314159 in #2780
• Closes #2521: Add uint support to histogram by @TheOddCzar789 in #2782
• Closes #2774: Resolve deprecation warnings in advance of 1.32 release by @bmcdonald3 in #2775
• Closes #2783: Add ref this intents to comm aggregation code by @bmcdonald3 in #2784
• Closes #2724 & #2730 - Adds HDF5 support for Index and MultiIndex by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #2731
• Closes #2790: Convert non sym entry array creations to new throwing interface by @bmcdonald3 in #2791
• Closes #2789: Updates to HDF5 for Index by @pierce314159 in #2792
• Closes #2794: Fix distributed makeDistArray call for Chapel 1.30 and 1.31 by @bmcdonald3 in #2795
• Closes #2796: Reduce Parquet IO benchmark default size by @bmcdonald3 in #2797
• Cloases #2798: Resolve chpl 1.32 deprecations for make check-deps by @pierce314159 in #2799
• Closes #2474: Update ConcatenateMsg to use aggregation for bigint by @jaketrookman in #2801
• Fixes #2802: concatenate and arange mishandling max_bits by @pierce314159 in #2803
• Closes #2807: Pin tables<3.9.0 to avoid CI failures by @pierce314159 in #2808
• Closes #2805: Upgrade arrow to 11 and add python 3.x compat by @pierce314159 in #2806
• Closes #2472, #2800: Update IndexingMsg to use & instead of mod for setting bigint pdarrays by @jaketrookman in #2793
• Closes #2716: Add dataframe merge functionality by @egelberg in #2781

New Contributors

• @egelberg made their first contribution in #2756

Full Changelog: v2023.09.06...v2023.10.06