[9.0.0] - 2025-11-03

NOTE: 9.1.0 will be released shortly as Polars 0.52.0 was released as we were building the 9.0.0 release.

describegpt: explicitly use frequency's dense rank strategy dc3f270
describegpt: allow --prompt to be loaded from a text file b11a10c
describegpt: use much faster BLAKE3 hash for cache key
frequency: change default rank-strategy from min (AKA "1224" ranking) to dense (AKA "1223" ranking)
lens: bumped csvlens from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0
lens: automatically set to monochrome mode when using --find option 8539869
luau: bumped embedded Luau from 0.694 to 0.697 3e68e29
stats: fingerprint hash now uses much-faster, parallelizable BLAKE3 instead of SHA256
table: document that it also creates "aligned TSVs" and Fixed Width Format files aaa84b0
tests: change default Python to 3.13
docs: documented that Extended Input Support (🗄️) does .zip auto-decompression
docs: documented Limited Extended Input Support (🗃️)
use latest qsv-tuned csv crate with performance optimizations
build(deps): bump flate2 from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #3071
build(deps): bump human-panic from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #3077
deps: bump Polars from 0.51.0 at py-1.35.0-beta.1 to py-1.35.1 618edf0
deps: use latest Polars at time of 9.0.0 release 9fd45ba
build(deps): bump qsv-stats from 0.39.1 to 0.40.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3078
build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #3074
applied several clippy lint suggestions
bumped several indirect dependencies
align nightly to 2025-10-24, the same nightly as Polars
bumped MSRV to Rust 1.91

describegpt: add SQL escaping to eliminate SQL injection attack vector; add .csv extension to --sql-output when Polars SQL query runs successfully ad52a35
frequency: fix --select option always returning <ALL_UNIQUE> #3082

Removed SHA256 and replaced with mush faster, parallelizable BLAKE3 hash #3072 and #3080
publish: removed maximize-build-space step in workflows as it was not working as advertised
tests: removed target-cpu=native RUSTFLAG in CI tests to avoid intermittent SIGILL (Illegal Instruction) faults

Full Changelog: 8.1.1...9.0.0