Modin 0.4.0rc1 release notes

This is a release candidate. Please test with existing workflows to ensure correctness.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Correct support for drop_duplicates (#466)
• Fix issue by properly handling parse_dates (#473)

User experience 👤

• Update pandas version to 0.24 (#451) 🎉

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 📈

• Add additional testing for API compatibility. (#480)

Contributors this release

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

@williamma12 (Committer)
@eavidan (Committer)
@devin-petersohn (Admin)

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