This release contains a few key bugfixes and pandas version update.
Key Features and Updates
- Stability and Bugfixes
- Stop shallow dataframe copies from creating global shared state (#4184)
- Make PandasOnRayDataframeColumnPartition conformant to partition interface (#4231)
- Fix lazy metadata update for PandasDataFrame.from_labels (#4209)
- Fix Categorical() for scalar categories (#4258)
- Fix some cases when assigning a scalar to a subset of dataframe or series. (#4160)
- Align read_excel() behaviour on empty rows with pandas 1.3+ (#4161)
- Allow reading an empty parquet file. (#4075)
- Pin Dask<2022.2.0 as a temporary fix. (#4218)
- Add proper error handling in df.set_index. (#4309)
- Documentation improvements
- Clarify OmniSci activation in its usage section. (#4192)
- Upgrade pandas to 1.4.1 (#4235)
Contributors
@mvashishtha @anmyachev @prutskov @devin-petersohn @naren-ponder @YarShev @Garra1980