Modin 0.3.1 release notes

This release contains a few minor bugfixes and code reformatting. It also includes some enhancements for the user and improved testing.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Fix issue with MultiIndex in reindex (#427)
• Fixing memory usage in containers (#446)
• Fixing issue with duplicated rows when looping through groupby object (#459)

User experience 👤

• Fix issue where some users have to install Dask to run Modin (#434)
• Ignore numpy version error. (#445)
• Removing path and line number from warnings. (#447)
• Add typing to dependencies (#462)

New functionality ⭐️

• read_hdf() support to 'fixed' format (#440)
• DataFrame.drop_duplicates (#433)
• First initiative to distribute the read_sql() method. (#436)

Backend enhancements + Performance 🚀

• Add a way to skip the initial reindex phase for left and right (#425)

Code Refactor 💯

• Fix flake8 errors exposed by update of flake8 (#442)
• Remove the pandas dependency from BlockPartitions (#437)
• Refactor Pandas Axis Partition objects to avoid duplicate code (#435)

Testing 📈

• Add codecov to testing suite (#452)

Documentation

• Minor fixes and typos (#430, #431, #419, #450)
• Add binderhub badges and rearrange badges (#443)
• Fix incorrect email address in docs (#449)

Contributors this release

The following users contributed code to Modin since the last release.

@igorborgest (New contributor) 🔰
@Kopurlso (Returning contributor) 🌟
@eavidan (Committer)
@devin-petersohn (Admin)

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