Modin 0.5.1 release notes

This release includes performance improvements for indexing (loc, iloc, etc.) and some minor bugfixes.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Fix usecols when header=None (#622)
• Fix shallow copy (#631)
• Replace read_pandas with ParquetDataset to support predicate pushdown (#638)
• Support boolean indexers and other properties in loc (#635)
• Fix hdf error checking (#639)
• Read partitioned parquet files (#632)

Backend enhancements + Performance 🚀

• Add fastrack for slices when step=None (#614)
• Make indexing faster (#613)

Dependencies 🔗

• Bump ray version to 0.7.0 (#623)

Regressions ↩️

• Fix Series.getitem with a slice (#615)
• Fix apply error checking for functions that require certain types (#617)

Contributors this release

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

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

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