Modin 0.4.0 release notes

This release includes many minor bugfixes and an update to pandas 0.24.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Correct support for drop_duplicates (#466)
• Fix issue by properly handling parse_dates (#473)
• Correctly match pandas behavior when iteratively updating columns (#488)
• Add correct support for include="all" (#486)

User experience 👤

• Update pandas version to 0.24 (#451) 🎉
• add dockerfile (#487)

New functionality ⭐️

• parallel to_sql() (#461)

Backend enhancements + Performance 🚀

• Remove arguments causing errors with Ray 0.7.0 (#472)
• Create Base Query Compiler object for query compilers (#448)
• Fix inheritance of constructor for PandasQueryCompilerView (#478)

Testing and Code Quality (📈 + 💯)

• Add additional testing for API compatibility. (#480)
• Remove dead code (#493)
• Improve test coverage (#491)

Contributors this release

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

@aglove2189 (First time contributor) 🌟
@williamma12 (Committer)
@eavidan (Committer)
@devin-petersohn (Admin)

🎉🎉 Thank you! 🎉🎉