v2024.2.0

What's Changed

New Features:

• feat: round target step multiplicity so we end up with more even steps on average by @lgray in #1011
• feat: deprecate coffea.nanoevents.methods.vector by @lgray in #997

Fixes:

• fix!: improve user interface for preprocess by @lgray in #1008
• fix: use public uproot interfaces when extracting form by @lgray in #1013
• fix: force application of to_packed in awkward binnings by @lgray in #1016
• fix: convert sys.exit(1) to ValueError in DataDiscoveryCLI by @iasonkrom in #1020

Documentation:

• fix(docs): update Running inference tools notebook by @Saransh-cpp in #1004
• fix(docs): Update dataset_discovery.ipynb by @nsmith- in #1006
• fix(docs): rewrite Coffea Processors notebook by @Saransh-cpp in #1005

Other:

• build(binder): update binder install to include distributed by @lgray in #1009
• build: pin to uproot 5.2.2 by @lgray in #1012
• ci(pre-commit): pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1015
• chore: get ruff to show fixes when it applies them by @lgray in #1018
• ci: bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #1022
• build: bump dask-awkward and dask-histogram by @lgray in #1023

Full Changelog: v2024.1.2...v2024.2.0