The lux-api v0.3 release contains major feature, including Postgres SQL support and geographic visualizations.
This release is associated with lux-widget v0.1.5.

New Features

• Adding support for SQL as execution engine (#306, #356, #363)
• New geographic data type and visualizations (#253, #318, #322, #358)
• "All-column" vis when only few columns in dataframe ( #199, #336)
• Improve warnings when no recommendations are generated (#279)
• Add export Vis option to LuxSeries (#277)
• Extend color legend size for scatter charts for matplotlib (#286)
• Non-empty __repr___ and moving widget display to Out[...] (#308)

Refactor & Bug Fixes

• Update histogram code with new bin determination (#285, #304)
• Migrated Travis to Github Action CI (#294)
• Avoid current_vis expire upon expire_recs (#278)
• Upgrade required Pandas version 1.2.0 (#281)
• Narrow condition for Float64 sanitization in Altair (#247)
• Refactor Expand LuxGroupby Tests and add bug fixes (#287, #309)
• Revert Cardinality Requirement for Histograms (#301)
• Fix Metadata Propagation with Overridden Pandas Methods (#332)
• Various bugfix in test and data type inference code (#349)
• Update type inference for string columns (#343)
• NaN value scatterplot bug (#346)
• Bugfix for error when intent is invalid (#351)
• Change Vis export API name: to_matplotlib, to_altair, to_vegalite (#359)

Documentation

• Added new Pull Request templates
• Added new Notebook Gallery
• Added new lux-binder-sql tutorials

Contributors

We thank the following users who have contributed to this release: @caitlynachen, @cjachekang, @domoritz, @dorisjlee, @dj-khandelwal, @jerrysong1324, @jinimukh, @Moh-Yakoub, @micahtyong, @NiStannum, @sophiahhuang, @thyneb19, @westernguy2.