Version 2.11.0

What's Changed

New features

• feat: add lazy IR scheduling layer by @ianna in #4173
• feat: allow row group size in bytes as a string in the to_parquet family of functions by @ikrommyd in #4202

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: include kernel-specification.yml in source distribution by @5U5H4NTH006 in #4179
• fix: default row group size is very big and not what pyarrow defaults to by @ikrommyd in #4191
• fix: handle FutureWarning for deprecated feather by @ianna in #4198
• fix: nan-variant reducers drop behavior and attrs by @henryiii in #4093
• fix: validation no-ops and broken error paths in contents by @henryiii in #4102
• fix: form and type equality bugs by @henryiii in #4101
• perf: vectorize union flattening and cache nplike feature probes by @henryiii in #4109
• fix: assorted operation bugs (softmax, enforce_type, merge_union_of_records, and more) by @henryiii in #4107
• fix: categorical hashing, delayed-backend detection, and pretty-printing by @henryiii in #4106
• fix: ensure length is a numpy scalar for CUDA stability by @ianna in #4194
• fix: any_backend_is_delayed should only be iterating over sequences of arrays for now by @ikrommyd in #4208
• fix: transient attrs should not be written to parquet by @ikrommyd in #4209

Other

• chore(deps): bump hypothesis-awkward from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #4175
• docs: add 5U5H4NTH006 as a contributor for code by @allcontributors[bot] in #4180
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #4176
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #4196
• chore(deps): bump hypothesis-awkward from 0.18.1 to 0.19.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #4195
• chore: bump default parquet version to 2.6 by @ikrommyd in #4192
• chore: remove dead code and outdated guards by @henryiii in #4103
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #4206
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #4182
• chore: update reviewer list by @pfackeldey in #4200

New Contributors

• @5U5H4NTH006 made their first contribution in #4179

Full Changelog: v2.10.0...v2.11.0